Japan based telecom operator KDDI on May 25 announced the launch of the Urbano Progresso smartphone. This would be the world’s first smartphone to come out with Smart Sonic Receiver technology known to provide the easily transmission of better voice quality to the user through the vibration in the handsets display screen. This is co developed by Kyocera and KDDI Corporation based on the advanced ceramic technology. Let’s have a walk through this special summer smartphone by KDDI Au available for sale in Japan only.
KYOCERA Urbano Progresso Phone
Urbano Progresso is powered by Kyocera and it’s with 4 inches WVGA display screen with 1.4 Ghz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor clocked at 1 GB of RAM along with 4 GB of ROM. This comes with a stylish and metallic design with OLED luminous display screen. The phone is dust proof and water proof certification which protects your smartphone from any dust entering inside or when your phone is thrown in water it can withstand it.
The phone is equipped with 8 mega pixel camera on the rear side for recording videos at 720p easily along with photos capturing and on the front side it has 3.2 mega pixel camera which can be used for video chat as well as taking photos. Data access to this smartphone can be done via Wi Fi internet access and this comes with the high speed with + Wimax technology which provides 40 Mbps of speed and also features the Wi Fi tethering options allowing you to connect up to 8 devices. Provided with 1500 mAh battery this comes with 360 hours of the continuous standby mode and 540 minutes during the talk time. Its body size is 125mm × 64mm × 10.8mm and it weight is 139 grams. This smartphone would be made available in orange, silver and pink colors and the orange one is display in the picture above.
On top of that it comes out with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed on the device itself which provides beautiful and ascetic design along with superb performance and more than that we have Google apps pre-installed, Google Play Store provides access to download thousands of applications. In addition to that it comes with the mobile payment using the mobile wallet and sends out emergency message when there is earthquake, tsunami or disaster is about to come.
The price of this smartphone is yet to be determined by the retailer and we see this device coming out very in the market.