Kyocera Echo Hardware Review

[wilberpsd1]

@pocketnowvideo does anyone know how to reset the echo manually? thanks

[ryodimos]

i wanted to buy it but then i took an arrow to the knee

[CarlosManuelPolanco]

I wish it would flip all aver so I can sit both screens together instead of the main screen facing up... I work in Construction so i don't like the screen to be exposed all the time

[doubtfullyamazed]

It's a good phone to start. But a different phone company should work on it to make it look better.

[MrNergh]

5 ITS A BOX!!!

[thebigb4d4sian]

thats what she said 8:35



[Ninjadude973]

It's thick, it looks squareish, IT'S A BOX

[Belzie5]

Your talking nerd....I'm confused

[RadiumZtar]

so how do you use the battery pack do u plug it in???? cuz i have one n i realy want to no how to use it

[Malcolmali100]

u talk too much

[LuhGTV]

man aint got no good apps

[swaqqkidd69]

the concept of this phone is fantastic but the design is so ugly & bulky...htc needs to make one of these bad boys kyocera put in good effort but still not quite there i would love to play with one of these though

[starfish6697]

can u run flash?

[Pancake310]

great review,Im having so much trouble getting ringtones on to it.help :(

[LuhGTV]

@Pancake310 myxer.com free ringtones

[tonymontana885]

MidNightXFire Is right about that

[TheStealth009]

This phone is pretty damn sick and stupid fast just wish my battery life was as awesome as this phone :( other than that its a win fo sho

[MidnightXfire]

phones are not for looks this is not a freaking beauty contest

[mothrabattra]

I think this could be sprint's best phone if they fix the design and size. Think of the shift, but with this flip design. Maybe they can add dual-sticks for gaming. It was hard playing assassins creed with touchscreen sticks. Play a game on the bottom screen while watching a movie.

[xbox23007]

Stop bashing this phone. I had an evo that I modded with cyanogen mod 7 and this phone is better than that. All you stupid iPhone fan boys can suck it because the iPhone is a epic fail!

So please don't call it ugly or stupid untill you play with it in person.

[oldspice420]

@xbox23007 your just mad that android phones will never have as good of a touch screen as an iphone. i used many android phones and i think they are horrible, they are laggy and the touch screen is just awful. and i didnt use a shitty adroid phone either, it had a 1ghz processor, 512 mb of ram, etc etc. same specs as my iphone 4.

[blkrse22]

That phone hurts my... eyes .....one ugly lame phone... good idea just the wrong company... made the phone...

[AMG504]

I have this phone is really good and fast

[stranck]

you must have pointed out that it is not good looking...

[Acelightnin24]

2 screens are better than 1!

[Dr1661]

try holding the phone with both hands in landscape mode with the thumbs on these chrome desing platforms. then just slide it up like a keyboard phone. and for the tabled mode do the same. i would rly like to see if that works.

[c2g1980]

I mean Kyocera tried, I think? Its definitely different.

[Tsuekasae]

Even Brandon Eminem thinks its ugly

[Tsuekasae]

It's annoying to look at

[cossheisnmzenna]

2% every minute? whaaat?? I think the design is OK, but I didn't like how the screen isn't properly orientated

[repo4]

That is one horrible design.

[takenxtx]

That's one stoooooopid phone!

[beerad875]

I won't lie, it's a great idea and I could see it being good in the future.

[toonygamer2004]

Brandon--At 7:50, you described the hinge.

Top screen has joints where it swivels/locks with the hinge.

Below those joints is an indentation, or curved build on the hinge.

That's where I place my middle fingers as leverage to snap

the phone from tablet mode to a one screen phone.

--

So--in tablet mode, push the screen away, of course so that it

creates a bigger gap between both screens, and then place

both middle fingers on indentations of hinge. Pull toward yourself.

Then fold top screen over.

[VODKA0710]

I don't know, but this is the first Android phone, that I like.

[Jeremiahjones32]

y do sd cards have different classes?

[tomasasaz]

@Jeremiahjones32 because they have different speeds.

[toonygamer2004]

@Jeremiahjones32

Each class is configured with it's own write speeds.

Typically the higher the class, the higher the write speeds.

Write speeds meaning how fast it's able to store the picture you

just took with your camera, or how fast it's able to write the 500

pictures your transfering from your computer to the card--just a couple of examples.

[NoImagination1]

resume: it sucks

[wesleyc38]

looks like an nds lol

[xZoeGreenx]

When it is open it kind of looks like a mini Microsoft courier tablet :)

[DitzyDom]

this phone is without a doubt the ugliest phone i have ever seen , and i have seen some pretty butt ugly phones

[Stabiloten]

i think it looks like shit

[appiekaraer]

bullshit

period.

[loljuanwtf]

I don't see the point in this. Two screens is useless, battery sucks, and the black between looks annoying. Just another way to steal your money.

[paulgthawkins]

Should#

[paulgthawkins]

Lol. Yes it took forever for him to turn it on! Maybe pocketnow software do the software first then the hardware. This phone looks terrible btw :s

[dooshahn]

Could you please show it using some sort of stylus? For example some drawing app across both screens.

[Stresy94]

nice concept 

[IgnitionUnlimited]

2% battery per minute = 50 minutes of battery life with the screen on = worst smartphone ever made.

[theworldisnotmine]

That phone reminds me of the Dreamcast... it's probably the first of many phones that will have this form factor but it's only polished in all the wrong ways. Good for a first round though.

[fatsterfatster]

Why no search button???

[Lugnut2002]

Yeah buddy I got a tablet in my pocket... Yes beauty is in the eye of the the beholder. Get one for yourself and make up your own mind, quit listening to these fools. If I had listened to these idiots I wouldn't be enjoying my huge frickin onscreen keyboard right now posting this comment.

[hibrian9]

I wish samsung will make a 2 screen phone and it will be really good

[Lugnut2002]

Oh and by the way the Nintendo DS crap is getting old... Give it up its not funny anymore! lol be cool and quit copying what you here from everyone else and get your own joke. Believe it or not people at my work think this phone looks badass and they keep on asking me about it. Oh and I never even used the 4g on my Evo so who cares if its only 3g, 4g was spotty and could never hang on to the signal anyway. The space between the two screens isn't that bad believe me you get used to it.

[FifteeeCal]

Nice idea... poor execution.

[tandersn9]

turns phone on around 6:28

[toonygamer2004]

@tandersn9

It's a "hardware" review.

[tandersn9]

@toonygamer2004 the screen turning on involves hardware... AM I RIGHT AM I RIGHT!????

[toonygamer2004]

@tandersn9

Yeah, that's true --but that's not the point.

The important feedback from Brandon on what he thinks

about the hardware is the entire video, including the

display being turned on.

[Lugnut2002]

Regardless of what people think I love this device. I have been using this phone for a couple of days now and I can honestly say when I first got it I was slightly disappointed coming from my Evo but this is one of the best phones I have ever owned. There are alot of people talking crap about this phone but believe me its solid built, and to me never gets old. It all depends on the person. If you think you might like it, try it! After all you still have 30 days to return it if you don't.

[backlashsid]

lolol...

[THEAMO117]

oh hey look!!! its a new nintendo ds4!!!.......oh wait its just a really gay phone

[iAlex122000]

Less talk more phone

[bconover93]

they should've used the Motorola Backflip form factor on this phone. :)

[WakingLife55]

OMFG TURN IT ON!!

[ldimillo19]

@WakingLife55 it's a hardware review...

[halfingr]

Meh.

It looks very flimsy; I'd rather just use one screen and save myself the trouble of accidentally snapping it in half.

[toonygamer2004]

@halfingr

"Looks" flimsy, I agree.

You should take it for a 20 minute spin at the store.

Surprisingly the opposite of flimsy.

[halfingr]

@toonygamer2004 When you can see the chassis bend like that, that means it has that much leeway to bend, and that bending leeway makes it easier to break.

So unless its reinforced with carbon steel, you could snap that folding mechanism in half when its in the tilt.

And yes, I have used a display model within the last few hours. Its just as flimsy as it looks, not to mention its hideous, especially with that chrome.

Its like the mutant offspring of a ghetto-fabulous slider and a Nintendo DS.

[toonygamer2004]

@halfingr

So, you got to feel the hinge and the overall quality

of the phone, and you don't think the design is sturdy enough?

I agree with how it looks. Not really appealing.

--

"Unless it's reinforced with carbon steel"...at what area?

[halfingr]

@toonygamer2004 No, I don't think its strong enough. It may be 'strong', but its' structural integrity has much to be desired.

The carbon steel comment was facetiousness on my part - it needs to be more straightforward with a 100% fixed pathway on its folding mechanism. There is too much leeway, and/or its too "loose", to sum it up.

Even if it were stronger, I still wouldn't get it though.

[Khalduknight]

It's an interesting idea, but the execution wasn't as great as I would have hoped. They had to skimp on build-quality and user-friendliness to get the dual screens there.

Oh, in the video description: "Kyocera did a pretty COULD job"?

You may want to correct that.

[joemo7384]

I played with one at Sprint. IT was so not for me since I own an HTC Evo.

[ovidiugr]

after the software review do a scratch test or a giveaway vid.

[PKJohansson]

very interesting phone concept, but the chrome parts look awful

[Tubenisti]

mmmh what a sleek and sexy device

[LeeGee1983]

I can see a few returns on this. Sorry mr phone shop man, I dropped it on the floor while open THE DAM SCREEEEEEN

[RoccoDaOne]

"It are these" :D

[TheShatteredPieces]

This isn't user-friendly. Did they not real-world-test this product before production, to work out kinks?

[kingrevng]

ugly whho will buy it????????????

[ChillRays]

The concept is great but yet, It does look ugly and I wouldn't buy it... sprint or no sprint network.

[KarmanDemli]

Hmmm... Quit an nice one, might buy it

[cheetohfail]

I want it!!! Too bad I'm not on Sprint. :'(

[PECOAAC]

So. Hideous...

[paul13nov]

2% a minute battery drain D: fuck that! i was actually looking forward to this, just cus its different to everything else (phone wise) but now... well, i hope other companies take this idea and make it usable

[AXooooXA]

@Homemadezipline First? More like first retard :D

[paul13nov]

@Homemadezipline wow! you're like god to me now! -_-