“Sprint wants you to believe that two screens are better than one. Its new Android-powered smartphone, the Echo, will feature two touchscreen surfaces in a hinged design. Made by Japanese electronics manufacturer Kyocera, the phone’s dual 3.5-inch WVGA screens can be operated independent of one another or combine in ‘tablet mode’ to add up to a single 4.7-inch integrated display (albeit one with a hinge in the middle).”
Wouldn’t that guzzle up your battery, or are they planning to put a high-capacity battery in it? One touch screen on most phones guzzles enough power right now, I can’t imagine how fast two of them would drain a typical 1900 or 2100 mA phone battery on top of Android’s generally inefficient process management.
Maybe there’s a second battery underneath the second screen? Can’t see what else they’d use the extra space for.
If you guys read the article, you’d already know:
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This was meant in reply to darknexus and phoenix. doh!
Edited 2011-02-09 12:03 UTC
And thus the expression, “Is that an Echo in your pocket or…”