First, the phone itself: Echo is a local device, but think how much of us. Is multitasking. The echo begins as Android touch screen of 2.2 standard phone, and it works fine. But then it shifts the 3.5-inch, 800 x 480 LCD, which makes a strange thing hingey, and prisoner of war: the screen almost merges with another screen hidden beneath it. (See the slideshow below to understand.)
The echo of the one hinge is made of "liquid metal", Sprint's president, vice president of device operations Fared Adib said. It felt like plastic to me, but he said it was metal - and during the test was hard and strong. The phone can survive a drop test of two meters, said.
You can use the dual screens of different ways. By default, the phone is like a mini-tablet with a 4.7 inch, 800 x 960 screen. This is a standard resolution of Android, so some programs may work with a black border. This mode is also less impressive, the black bezel in the center, while very close, not on the road a bit.
Some applications use both screens for different things. For example, when playing The Sims, the bottom screen is the control panel, like a Nintendo DS. The bottom screen also becomes a touch pad unusually large (or even gave a keyboard) when necessary. Writing in the large touchpad, with its subtle force feedback, was unusually good for a touch pad.
But using that really excites me is when two things are totally different in the two screens. A handful of integrated applications work this way: you can browse a web page to write an e-mail, for example, or choose a photo and throw it to Facebook, or mess with his tail from YouTube to view YouTube.
For obsessive Web browsers and social networks, I love this phone. Most people multitasking on their desktops - they just know someone who keeps an open tab in a Web browser. Echo allows you to switch between different tabs and tasks more easily than a phone does not multitask.
I am a little worried about performance. I see no visible problem in my 20 minutes of hands, but the echo is running a single core, 1 GHz processor QSD8255 Qualcomm. That chip, running Android, usually manage an application at once, not twice. The echo is also pushing more pixels than any Android smartphone, or even the Samsung tab Galaxy, with the same kind of GPU.
Battery life can also be a problem either with screens operating at full power, you can not get the value of a full day of use. So Sprint is including a second battery of 1370 mAh, with its own charger that plugs into the phone cord. You can charge two batteries at a time that way. The retail box also includes a memory card 8GB MicroSD.
The eco cost $ 199 when you leave this spring, Sprint said.
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