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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocket now calm the kyocera echo is not only a really important device for Sprint's not only a really important device for kyocera but it's a very important device for the entire smartphone industry it is the first dual screen phone made commercially available it's running Android and we gotta wonder is this a novelty or does two screens on Android really make sense and increase productivity you better believe we're going to find that out for you and let's get to the unboxing of the kyocera echo alrighty let's get this open and thanks to sprint for sending us a unit to review let's see what we have inside now kyocera isn't exactly known for smartphones in fact this is one of their first smartphones and the kind of really hitting the ground running with a dual screened android phone quite a big deal for their first phone they didn't go to a standard slate they just went to something a lot bigger than that so let's pull out all of this stuff Wow look at this box probably can't see it yet but you will in a second okay so so far very impressive this nice box exclusively on sprint Wow look at the corners with these metal details usually we don't see such a such a fanfare with boxes we just get a standard cardboard box but it's always nice to have something that's actually fun to take out of the packaging so moving around the box here and let's open up the lid oh wow this is awesome we've got a USB key they're probably the user manual on this it says 2g made in China I don't know if that means is two gigabytes probably does wants to look at that later and let's see what we have once we lift off this foam insert so the echo comes with another battery because when you're driving two screens you're going to use a lot of battery power so they solve the problem not really with any battery innovation just by giving you a second battery which is kind of funny so here is the second battery or may this is the first but see how big this is going to be it's going to be Third thirteen hundred and seventy milliamp hours so a respectable size and if you've got two batteries that should definitely last you throughout the whole day if not much more than that we've got what appears to be hmm it looks to be almost a case but I hope not because it looks like a business card holder and a little chamois to keep your screen clean again cues are really outfitting the user and a lot of different accessories here we have a getting started guide lots of different papers and then we've got of course a micro SD adapter assuming that this comes with a micro SD card and we've got a standard micro-usb charger okay so let's slide all of this out of the way okay so here we go I'm going to pop this out by the way this is a 3g phone not a 4g phone just a little bit surprising but the fact that this has two screens kind of makes up for the fact that it doesn't have the sprint 4g connectivity now what we have here are two 3.5 inch diagonal displays both of which are 4 480 resolution by 800 so if you put that together what you get is a pretty large 4.7 inch display you do the math it's a resolution of 480 we're actually 800 x 960 it's a kind of a strange number there and some apps will scale to both screens some apps will work independently on one or the other kind of a really cool concept there's a lot of use case scenarios will have to talk about we've got a super thin bezel here to allow the two screens kind of to mesh together to create one screen let's see how we fold this there we go okay so that will take a little bit of practice to get used to let's find the power button here and turn it on just to get a first look at it a very thick device it looks like there's actually no battery inside so we pop it off like so okay there is a battery to make sure there is no sort of piece of cellophane okay and here it's coming on right now actually had to put on the other battery because it probably shipped turned on and it was waiting for me so it kind of lost the battery battery life there so looking for the microSD a lot to see how much memory this packs right on board so we've got a card already inserted this will cost you a hundred and ninety-nine dollars for the two-year contract we've kind of kind of a strange-looking eight gigabyte to class 2 micro SD card so good bit of space there I want to talk about specs in another video but to give you a preview it's got a 1 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor ok here we go so something's happening so we open up the two screens this is really weird to get used to we haven't seen anything like this before so they will snap in place and again I got a really ok there we go so now we're sort of in tablet mode right so we've got the ability to swipe from home screen to home screen you get a lot of resolution here you can fit a lot of icons on the screen at one time but then if you sort of close the screens and slide it like so you're going to be taken into just a standard android home screen with the just the 480 x 800 resolution time in the settings real quick and take a look at what we have there we're getting full bars of 3g which is fantastic will go to about phone and software and we'll see already and software will see that we're running on froyo not the newest version of android 2.3 but certainly at least were on froyo it's going to remove this widget so let's look around the device and compare this to other devices will turn off the screen probably picked up some fingerprints by now so again we have these 2 3.5 inch screens we've got three android buttons here and three android buttons here making for a total of six android buttons again it is thick let's compare it to the very thick HTC Thunderbolt it's thicker than the Thunderbolt and if we compare it to the AT&T focus of course it's going to be thicker than that but of course those devices don't have two screens so around the back we've got a camera with a flash kind of plastic all over it feels high quality probably because it's got a lot of weight to it I mean it's really a hefty device so we can see the hinge on the back and then the bottom it says Qualcomm 3 3g cdma very good and of course we've got the charger a little under a little flap for syncing and charging plus a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is always nice to have volume rocker and the power standby switch on the left side of device so a lot more to talk about the kyocera echo we're gonna have a lot of videos talking about when two screens make sense when it's kind of silly and perhaps maybe it's not maybe it's always a good idea and how this device works as a daily driver whether it makes you more productive whether it makes you do more with your phone because really that's the purpose with a kyocera echo to be able to simulcast as they call so check your email on one screen while browsing the web on another it's a really cool prospect something we have not seen before in the world of Android or the world of smartphones so we're extremely excited to really get down and dirty with this device if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now hmm