I know we’re a little behind the ball on this one since it was announced on Monday, but better late than never right? The Kyocera Echo is the first dual-touchscreen Android phone on the Market. This phone will be available in Spring 2011 and will run Android 2.2 (Froyo) with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Why no Gingerbread though? It has two 3.5″ WVGA screens. Its 4.53″ long, 2.23″ wide, and 0.68″ thick. There’s also no front-facing camera, only a rear-facing 5MP camera. It will also come with an 8Gb microSD card, expandable up to 32Gb.

Depending on that hinge’s angle, those screens can perform multiple functions. Slide one over the other, the Echo looks and feels like a somewhat thicker single-screen smartphone. Slid flat and side-by-side, the smartphone offers a 4.7-inch screen (broken by the hinge) for displaying movies and other media (each screen offers 800×480 resolution). One screen tilted at an angle to the other allows for typing on a virtual keyboard, on one screen, while viewing, say, e-mail or Facebook on the other.

It appears that the price point will be $199 on a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.

There’s quite a few new designs hitting the market soon, which one will come out on top? Would you prefer this dual-screen phone, or the Webtop dock for the Motorola Atrix 4G coming to At&t?

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WiMAX 2 Mobile Broadband – 330Mbps

The first interesting article from this huge exhibition that we are going to share is what gTen is so excited about. We quote gTen saying  “If sprint can roll this out and have Epic 4g and Evo 4g run at 300mbps we will all be in heaven…”  Take a look for yourself and see just what comes to mind when you learn more about WIMAX2 mobile broadband (link here).

Fujitsu dual-touchscreen phone like Nintendo DS

Although it’s not a device found in the US, this is a very nice piece of technology. Also found at Engadget (link here) and shown at the CEATEC convention, the Fujitsu dual-touchscreen phone is almost ready for production. It seems that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), a Swedish mobile UI design company, has teamed up with Fujitsu and created a spectacular, dual-touchscreen phone that will be very popular in the Japanese market.  One cool feature is the 960 x 480 resolution displays that are side-by-side and will swivel for multiple formatting options. Watch the video found at Engadget to see this device in action.

Sharp’s Galapagos Android Tablets

Also spotted at the CEATEC convention and articles found at CrunchGear.com (link here) were Sharp’s, as we know it, Galapagos hybrid tablets which also happened to be one of the biggest attractions of the whole exhibition. As far as we know the readers will be available in a 5.5″ as well as a 10.8″ size. December is when Japanese buyers will be able to purchase either tablet but no word yet on international availability.

Sources: Engadget & CrunchGear.com