Sprint announces Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android for $199 [UPDATED]

With David Blaine going about his daily business of regurgitating goldfish and reading Dr. Seuss underwater, Sprint’s Dan Hesse announced the Kyocera Echo at their hyped gala in NYC tonight. Echo is the world’s first dual-screen Android device, and will be available this spring for $199 after $100 mail-in rebate on a qualifying two-year plan ($10 premium data required). The phone will allow users to run apps on one of the two displays, or stretch them across both. The screens each measure 3.5″, and one can be pivoted and tucked away under the other.

The phone features four modes with various screen and software configurations: Tablet Mode, Optimized Mode, Simul-Task Mode, and Single-Screen Mode. It carries 1GB of internal storage, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a 5MP cam with flash that can capture 720p video.

See Sprint’s product page here and sign up for update notifications. Kyocera has their own product page, found here.

Via PhoneDog

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The battery life is suppose to be 5 hours and it comes with a spare battery and "special" charger per the press event yesterday. I bet with both screens going you're luck if you get an hour and a half!

Wow I am disappointed Sprint, all the hype for nothing. I want speed, I want power, I want an EVO 2 not gimmicks. Knock Knock? Who's there? All the other carriers now have a phone comparable to the EVO, time to step up and take control and come out with the next big Android Handset.Call me when you come out with a 4.3", Dual core, 4G, 3D phone hopefully HTC mega phone. Other than that your wasting mine and everybody else's time.

Instead of a weird 4.7 inch combined screen, why not just have one 4.7 or even 5 inch screen? That, to me, seems a lot more usable.

I think it is interesting, but I don't think they should have started with kyocera, The design element isn't there.

Honestly, I don't see the point.