Review: Kyocera Echo
The Echo uses the stock Android phone and contact applications, though they can be used a little bit more effectively with the dual-screen set up.
For example, you can open up the Echo laptop-style and load the SMS app on the top screen and the phone app on the lower screen. Dial a number (or sort through your contact list via the standard Android tabs), and away you go on a call. While on that call, you can read through the messages in your inbox and do things such as load images from MMS messages without losing access to the phone app's features. This is ideal for situations when you need to access information from your inbox and read it back to someone on the phone.
Thankfully, Kyocera was smart and picked the most essential applications for Simul-Task and Optimized modes, including the phone, email, contacts, and messaging. Kyocera is obviously hoping that business users notice this and choose the Echo over other, less multitask-y devices.
The core tool set remains the same, you can simply do more with them.
Hands-On: Kyocera Echo
Kyocera Echo Sports Two Displays, Hinged Design
Kyocera Echo
