Kyocera Echo Review

For me, a full blown tablet is nice real estate wise, but it can be tedious to type on. By contrast, a smart phone is nice and handy for thumb pecking out email and posts to Facebook, but the screen is so darn small. If only there could be something in the middle which would offer larger screen real estate and still let me type on the go. Enter the Sprint/Kyocera Echo.

The Echo is an interesting, dual screen smart phone, with twin 3.5” WVGA screens which separate thanks to an ingenious hinge, allowing for single screen phone use or dual screen tablet mode (where it stretches out to 4.7 inches square). And I have to say that the hinge had me a bit worried when I read about it. I had this ugly image of the hing breaking after a few months use, leaving angry users stuck with an expensive repair or replacement bill because they aren’t eligible for a new phone. But Kyocera has made the hinge design pretty robust and after a few months of daily use, it isn’t even loose. Hats off for making a tough design.

In addition to the tablet mode and single screen mode, there’s also a SimulTask app, which allows you to use the screens independently, or in concert with one another. This is easily seen with the Billiards game app which shows an overhead view of the pool table on one screen, and the playing view on the other. Or the YouTube screen which gives you the video on one screen and a list on the other (YouTube can also play in Dual Screen mode). When in dual screen mode, the Echo enjoys a full 960 x 800 screen resolution keeping it in league with its big brother tablets running Android 3 (Honeycomb). But in full screen mode, users do have to accept that line of separation in the middle between two screens.

The Echo uses Android 2.2 (Froyo), and that’s where there’s a bit of a drag. It’s an older version of the Android OS, and that makes it feel a bit like last year’s news since the world has moved on to vs. 2.3 (Gingerbread) and beyond. Even though it’s powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with 1GB of RAM on board, it still doesn’t have the latest Android software update – which it is by no means alone. In a rush to get phones out, manufacturers have been willing to go with last year’s OS with the promise of an eventual update. But even then, updates like Gingerbread are being stalled by carriers who are skittish about being in the rapid fire update cycle that is Android.

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Kyocera Echo Review

So, what is there to say about the bottom line of this odd little duck? Well, to be frank, it's more a toy than a phone. It works fine as a phone, but it seems to me that makes for a better mobile media/gaming device than a workhorse smartphone.



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