wraggster
February 8th, 2011, 21:40
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Nintendo may not be making a smartphone, but if it did, it might look a bit like the Kyocera Echo (http://www.echobykyocera.com/). Coming to Sprint later this year, it's being touted as the world's first "dual-touchscreen smartphone." At a preview event today, we got to see the phone running The Sims 3, optimized to take advantage of both screens. Unsurprisingly, it looked a lot like the DS version, albeit with higher-resolution graphics. The phone is set to launch with one other game, although a Sprint representative wouldn't reveal what it was.
Running on a custom Kyocera-skinned version of Android 2.2, the Echo augments the growing "fragmentation" problem that Google's mobile OS faces. Games must use Sprint's SDK (http://developer.sprint.com/site/global/develop/mobile_platforms/android/android.jsp) to take advantage of both of the screens offered by the Echo. But, how many developers will flock to create games for a single device available on a single carrier? We're going to guess: not many. At least the phone will be able to play other Android games -- maybe even PlayStation Suite (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/27/playstation-suite/) games, if the specs are up to snuff.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/07/kyocera-echo-a-dual-screen-android-gaming-phone-with-two-launch/
Nintendo may not be making a smartphone, but if it did, it might look a bit like the Kyocera Echo (http://www.echobykyocera.com/). Coming to Sprint later this year, it's being touted as the world's first "dual-touchscreen smartphone." At a preview event today, we got to see the phone running The Sims 3, optimized to take advantage of both screens. Unsurprisingly, it looked a lot like the DS version, albeit with higher-resolution graphics. The phone is set to launch with one other game, although a Sprint representative wouldn't reveal what it was.
Running on a custom Kyocera-skinned version of Android 2.2, the Echo augments the growing "fragmentation" problem that Google's mobile OS faces. Games must use Sprint's SDK (http://developer.sprint.com/site/global/develop/mobile_platforms/android/android.jsp) to take advantage of both of the screens offered by the Echo. But, how many developers will flock to create games for a single device available on a single carrier? We're going to guess: not many. At least the phone will be able to play other Android games -- maybe even PlayStation Suite (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/27/playstation-suite/) games, if the specs are up to snuff.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/07/kyocera-echo-a-dual-screen-android-gaming-phone-with-two-launch/