I woke up with a bit of a spring in my step this morning when I realized today Sprint would be holding a special press conference (with a surprise performance by David Blaine!) tonight. Originally we suspected that they would announce a Palm device but it seems all the hullabaloo is over a dual-screened Kyocera phone called the Echo.
The Echo has two little screens and can fold shut or turn into a dual-sided tablet thing. It runs Android and, according to via WSJ, it allows users to “accomplish multiple tasks on the two screens, or drag items from one screen to the other.”
You can check this weird thing out for a sense of what it will look like, but I’m totally deflated today. We don’t really need another form-factor and I worry that this will be as ill-fated as the Sprint Upstage, a truly horribly designed phone. At lease David Blaine will be there. Maybe he’ll stick Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO, into a glass box and make him disappear.
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