Kyocera introduces 5 new handsets at CTIA

by Sean Cooper posted Mar 27th 2007 at 4:57PM

Kyocera, the well-known CDMA handset specialist, has busted out a slew of new handsets today at CTIA. "Typical clamshell" and "variation on the theme" seem to be the orders of the day, with Kyocera only bringing one non-flip out to play. From left to right, at the top of the list is the E5000 (check that sweet-looking hinge) featuring a 1.3 megapixel cam, EV-DO, Bluetooth with A2DP support, and touch sensitive keys on the face to access your tunes. Next up, the M1000; this side flipper opens to reveal a QWERTY keypad, has dual displays, Bluetooth 1.2, and voice digit dialing. The E2000 brings the music-centric features with memory expansion to 2GB, front-mounted music controls for quick access, a 1.3 megapixel shooter, all packed in a styling piano-black enclosure. The E1000 brings most of the same features as its sibling, the E2000, but lacks the EV-DO love and the expandable memory slot. Rounding out this year's offering is the lowly S1000, this diminutive candy bar boasts 3 hour talk time, a straightforward keypad for texting, and weighs in at only 76 grams. Alright, we admit, we're suitably impressed with Kyocera's portfolio at a show where most of the heavy-hitters seem to have already emptied the bank of new releases for the year -- keep it coming, folks.

[Via Phone Scoop]

Filed under: Handsets, 1xRTT, EV-DO, Kyocera, CDMA

Tags: 1xrtt, CDMA, CTIA, EV-DO, kyocera

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KC @ Mar 27th 2007 10:56PM

Good to see that Cricket, Metro PCS and a variety of foreign 2nd and 3rd world countries will have some interesting for 2004 handsets on the cheap. The big carriers pretty much stopped dealing with kyocera so no Verizon or Sprint for these most likely.

Why do Kyocera phones turn out so terrible here when their line up in Japan is nearly all well designed decent phones?

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MinceyFresh @ Mar 27th 2007 11:54PM

I do agree with KC that *most* of Kyocera's phones here are jokes compared to what they release in Japan...

I'd say that the first, third, and fourth handsets in the pic above (E5000, E2000, and E1000, respectively) along with Amp'd Mobile's Jet & Angel at least seem pretty Japanesey, at least regarding their aesthetics...

Gotta start somewhere, right? :)

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Ivan @ Apr 6th 2007 5:15PM

the first phone to the left is named the E5000 and will be hitting verizon shelves verizon has chaned the name to be "Kyocera S" inpropts to show that the phone i shaped like an S...but better yet the pgone has a 3 megapixel camera and has stereo bluetooth and will has vcast video&music no word if it'll be officail for vcast TV the phone will be hitting shelves in late june

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