Kyocera (NYSE: KYO) unveiled bits of its strategy to the world. Apparently, the Japanese company plans to introduce its first Android-powered smartphone at some point next year. In addition, they…

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Kyocera had shown off its beautiful “EOS” phone concept at the CTIA Wireless 2009. The unique handset folds up unbelievably into a wallet-like shape, and folds out into two configurations: portrait QWERTY mode (pictured), and full-on widescreen OLED display.

Kyocera EOS Folding Phone Concept

Samsung was showing similar screen-folding folding abilities, but a much less impressive handset, at CES. Things get even wilder with Kyocera envisioning shape memory keys that can morph flat when not in use, and a kinetic charging method based on piezoelectric generators and Mary Poppins.

Kyocera EOS Folding Phone Concept

Kyocera plans on implementing these concept ideas into its “near future” lineup of devices. Well, time will tell how it all turns out.

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The CTIA Wireless 2009 is seeing a lot of hectic activity, much as expected. The latest is the Kyocera debut of two CDMA handsets, the G2GO M2000 and the Laylo M1400.

The G2GO M2000 sports a nice slide-out QWERTY keyboard and features Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, MP3 player, an accelerometer and a microSD expansion slot. The Laylo M1400 is a slider phone, which features Bluetooth 2.0, a calculator, scheduler, stopwatch, timer, tip calculator and little else.

Kyocera G2GO M2000

There is yet no news on pricing, availability or what carriers they will be on, but we are doing our regular job of seeking news, so should be up with something new soon.

Kyocera Laylo M1400

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Two unannounced Kyocera mobile phones, the X-tc and Jax, featured recently on the Virgin Mobile Website. The X-tc was spotted about a month back, the details of which are also published on the Kyocera Website. The Kyocera X-tc is a slide phone with a full QWERTY keyoard. Besides that, it comes with a 1.3MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, media player with dedicated control keys, Web browser, microSD card slot and preloaded applications such as Facebook and MySpace. The X-tc is priced at $100.

Kyocera X-tc

The Kyocera Jax is the re-branded S1300 Melo, which is already available from carriers such as MetroPCS and Cricket. This ultra-thin candybar-style phone gives the user basic features such as mobile web and messaging. The pricing of this simple phone has not been revealed yet.

Kyocera Jax

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