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![]() ![]() Double vision Sprint Nextel unveiled a smartphone with two screens, one stacked on top of the other |
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![]() ![]() The top screen slides out and can be snapped it into place so that the two lay side by side, producing screen space that rivals a tablet computer. |
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![]() ![]() The phone, called the Echo, is made by Japanese manufacturer Kyocera Corp. and has screens that are each the size of an iPhone's display. |
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![]() ![]() Put together, they create a larger space for typing e-mails, playing games and watching videos. The resulting display is still about half the size of an iPad's. But it's still a larger surface area than those found on most phones. |
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![]() ![]() If people wish, they can use just one screen, or have something - say, a YouTube clip or Google Maps - stretch across both screens. But Sprint also lets people use certain applications so that different parts of the app show up on each screen. For example, you can read e-mails on one screen and respond using an oversized onscreen keyboard on the second display. Or, you can play a game such as "The Sims" in one window with the controls taking up the lower screen. |
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