One would expect a product that’s named TNT to offer some explosions. The only thing that’s going to explode is your thrill about uncovering a brand new, cool phone. The TNT isn’t that new and it isn’t that cool either. What is it? It’s just a phone. A plain phone which will let you speak as much as you want with your friends. And that’s about all that this Virgin Mobile can do for you.

If the TNT looks familiar it’s because it is made by Kyocera and it’s similar to the their Adreno S2400. The TNT will be released by Virgin Mobile somewhere in August and it will cost about $19.99. Yes, it’s that cheap.

For that price you get phone that can offer you a Bluetooth 1.2 experience. There’s voice dialing, MMS messasging, speakerphone and WAP Internet browser.

S2400 offers Bluetooth 1.2 and voice dialing. You’ll also find text and multimedia messaging, basic organizer features, a speakerphone, a WAP Internet browser, voice memos, a vibrate mode, and a 500-contact phone book.

If you are followed by the police and want to get a fast phone and new number well that’s when this TNT will come in handy. Or if you’re just visiting the US for a couple of weeks and you are in need of a cheap pay as you go alternative. Check a Virgin Mobile store for more details.

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Virgin Mobile USA and Kyocera have announced a Special Edition of the Wild Card we spotted last year. What’s so new about that eh? Well, there is. Apparently, 15000 lucky winners will have special access to the Guest Lounge at the Virgin Mobile Festival coming up on August 9th and 10th in Baltimore. Just flash your Special Edition Wild Card cell phone and you are in. While the specs remain the same with dual displays, QWERTY keypad, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and Bluetooth, Kyocera has dropped the black look for a slick white casing, blue keypad buttons, unique wallpapers, Virgin Mobile Festival-themed bezel around the internal screen.

This Limited Edition Wild Card will be available exclusively through Best Buy offline and online for $99.99 starting May 25 through July 31. Virgin Mobile has also thrown in 50 free music downloads via eMusic and a year-long SPIN magazine subscription to go along. Nice deal, don’t you think?
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Another CDMA phone that’s recently unveiled by Kyocera along with the Neo E1100 is the Kyocera Mako S4000 clamshell phone. It has a simple silver box design, not unlike the typical phones in Japan. The phone has a 1.8-inch 128 x 160 pixels TFT internal display and a 1-inch 96 x 96 pixels resolution CSTN external display. It features a VGA camera with digital zoom, Bluetooth connectivity, voice recognition, WAP 2.0 browser, and Brew capability for downloading of polyphonic tones, games, wallpapers, and screensavers. The Kyocera Mako S4000 measures 3.5 x 1.84 x 0.67 inches and weighs 82.6 grams. Check out the phone product page.

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At the CTIA Wireless earlier this month, Kyocera unveiled a few new CDMA phones including the first one on our list–the Kyocera Neo E1100. In absence of a better picture, the one above shows its blue lightpipe with a “breathing” lighting design. The Kyocera phone features a hidden external 16 x 104 pixels monochromatic OLED display, a 2.2″ QVGA glowing display, 1.3 megapixel camera, voice recognition, and Bluetooth 2.0. The device measures 89.5 x 52 x 16.7 mm and weighs 90 grams. There’s no word on price or availability yet, but you can sign-up for an alert when the Kyocera Neo E1100 is already in the market in the phone product page.

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Kyocera has unveiled its new Adreno S2400, a low-end flip phone that offers a simple design and functional features. Before anybody gets all hyped up, I’d like to inform eveybody beforehand that there is not a lot of whizbang functionality here. In fact, the Adreno is designed for thos users who needs only the basic functions of their phone - that is calls.

That is not such a bad thing. In fact, its simplicity is very much welcome especially in the market where manufacturers are trying everyday to one-up each other with flashy new phones. Still, the Adreno isn’t all that primitive. It does offer Bluetooth 1.2 and voice dialing. You’ll also find text and multimedia messaging, basic organizer features, a speakerphone, a WAP Internet browser, voice memos, a vibrate mode, and a 500-contact phone book.

The Adreno’s design is dominated by squares and rectangles, from the rectangle of the phone itself to the square, and monochrome, external display. This angular theme continues to the inside as well. The 65,000 color rectangular display is surrounded by a rectangular frame while just below it are the boxy navigation array and keypad buttons.

Adreno is a CDMA phone and it supports BREW instead of Java.

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After investors saved Sanyo from a US$2.8billion debt, for the company to be sold is already a given. Indeed, Sanyo has revealed that they’re selling to Kyocera Corporation. The deal, including Sanyo’s debts, would amount to, reportedly, US$467 million, although a final price is yet to be set. The intensive competition has compelled Sanyo to sell out “to meet the best interest of the business and its stockholders.” A total number of around 2,000 employees would be transferred to Kyocera although the handsets would still carry the Sanyo name in Japan and world wide.

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Here’s a quick tip. Kyocera, one of the premiere producer of mobile phones, has just released the W54K in Japan. The new slim mobile phone features 2.7-inch wide 240*400(WQVGA) display and supports mobile TV. These features are pretty much normal in Japan. For the phone, all you have to do is rotate the screen horizontally, it starts running mobile TV.

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Reports have just been released informing the public that Kyocera Corporation, a Japanese company and was the world’s 10th largest mobile phone maker in the second quarter of calendar 2007 in unit sales to end-users, is entering the final stage of talks to buy Sanyo Electric Corporation’s cell phone operations for about 50 billion yen ($435 million).

The resulted as Sanyo and other Japanese cellphone makers are in a tough position as they compete with much larger rivals such as Finland’s Nokia and Motorola Inc. of the United States outside Japan, and face a maturing market at home.

Shares in Sanyo, which told Reuters in August its mobile phone business will likely turn profitable in the current quarter to the end of September, closed up 5.7 percent at 185 yen, while Kyocera rose 4.2 percent to 10,790 yen.

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