Two new mobile phones are here to ensure big ‘band for the buck’ with their affordable price tag. Both the devices address a need for affordability and value in today’s challenging economy without compromising on the best-in-class features.
Kyocera has announced the launch of its two new CDMA mobile phones at the CTIA Wireless 2009 trade show in Las Vegas.
Called the G2GO M2000 and Laylo M1400, the former is said to be the company’s third-generation QWERTY handset and the latter is touted to be an ultra-stylish slider phone. Both the models offer Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology, a WAP 2.0 browser, Java and BREW 3.1.5 to download games, ringers and wallpapers amongst others.
“The G2GO and Laylo support our current strengths as an innovative leader in handset manufacturing providing consumers with a blend of style, functionality and affordability. The integration of Kyocera Wireless and the former Sanyo mobile handset group is expanding those strengths to include higher-tiered handsets going forward while still providing functional, affordable and feature-rich devices like these,†mentioned Eric Anderson, vice president of sales at KCI.
Pronounced as ‘Good-to-Go’, the stylish G2GO M2000 is a successor of the very successful Lingo M1000 QWERTY handset. It highlights slide-out QWERTY keypad, a 2.4-inch QVGA display with accelerometer to shift from portrait to landscape orientation with ease.
On the entertainment front, the handset features a music player with playlist management, a 1.3 megapixel camera with digital zoom and photo editing, up to 8 GB of microSD card support. Some of the additional features include a built-in MP3 and polyphonic ringtones, screensavers, wallpapers and caller alerts along with predictive text-input software for rapid text entry.
It stands at 113 x 52 x 17 mm of dimensions and weighs 120g. It comes equipped with voice recognition features that comprise of voice tags, voice digit-dialing and voice response. Apart from that, handy tools such as scheduler, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, tip calculator, countdown timer, voice memos and airplane mode are also included in the phone. Users will appreciate up to 250 minutes of operation and up to 200 hours of standby time.
Coming to the next handset, the Kyocera Laylo M1400 slider phone incorporates a 2.2-inch contoured QVGA display and a large keypad with tactile and visual separation. It offers a slide-out self portrait vanity mirror on the back.
Weighing 90g and measuring 94.7 x 46.7 x 17.0 mm, the stylish and compact device also has a VGA camera with digital zoom, a speakerphone with dedicated key and speaker-independent voice recognition. It also offers an alarm, calculator, scheduler, stopwatch, timer, tip calculator and world clock. Lastly, the phone has the ability to work continuously for around 200 minutes and stay on standby time for 200 hours.
The pricing and availability details of the G2GO M2000 and Laylo M1400 phones are yet to be revealed by Kyocera.
