Android based Kyocera Zio Showcased at CTIA 2010

Android based Kyocera Zio Showcased at CTIA 2010

Techtree News Staff, Mar 25, 2010 1613 hrs IST

Might be a GSM version of the M6000

It was just two days ago that we reported about the first Android based handset from Kyocera, the Japanese manufacturer of predominantly low-end phones. That handset was known as the M6000. At the CTIA 2010, folks over at Unwired View seem to have run into the same phone. This time, however, the phone has a different name. The M6000 has changed to a simple Zio.

What might be different from the M6000 is the possibility of the Zio being a GSM handset. The M6000 as you might be aware was a CDMA EVDO Rev. A handset that is supposed to arrive in U.S. sometime later this year.

It comes with a 3.5 inch WVGA display, trackball, virtual QWERTY keypad, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, Wi-Fi, full HTML browser, voice dial, 3.2MP camera with video, 256MB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support.

Those who did use the Zio were not particularly impressed with it. Although it had a good design and finish, the software was a bit buggy and made the phone pretty unresponsive. Kyocera attributed it to be because of the software being still new. Like with the M6000, there is no word as to when the Zio would be on sale. Pricing details too have not been revealed.