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Users Claim the Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Some Printers

Microsoft’s most recent update was meant to fix Windows incorrectly labeling printers, but it appears to have introduced new problems.

An Abridged History of Foldable, Flippable Smartphones

With rumblings of Samsung's next folding phone on the horizon, it felt an apt time to look back at the journey that brought us here.

A Toaster Company Is Releasing an Android Phone

If a company can figure out how to perfectly toast a slice of bread, it can surely bring something to the table with regards to Android smartphone design. And anyway, some people think Android phones are nothing but chunks of carbs, so there’s clearly a market out there! Balmuda is a Japanese company that developed…

Who on Earth Is Buying These Rugged Android Phones?

Caterpillar, the same folks behind forklifts and the other big machines you have to wear hardhats around, makes Android devices for a very particular set of users in the field. Their latest device, the Cat S42 H+, is fascinating, because you can run it under water and wash it in the sink at the same…

Latest Windows 10 Update Is Causing Some Printers to Crash PCs

The latest Windows 10 update isn’t playing nice with some printers. According to Windows Latest, the issue is affecting printers from Kyocera, Ricoh, and Zebra. When a user sends a file to print, instead of actually printing, the entire PC will crash, showing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death along with the error code “APC_INDEX_MISMATCH…

After Two Years of Nuclear Crises, Japan Opens Its Biggest Solar Park

This month, Japanese electronics company Kyocera launched the country’s largest solar plant. The facility can power 22,000 homes—and, maybe more importantly, it poses no risk of melting down, injuring workers, or spewing radioactive water into the Pacific ocean. https://gizmodo.com/fukushima-has-been-leaking-radioactive-water-into-the-p-1440555391 Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant—the facility’s proper name—is located in an inlet at the very…

Bear Grylls Likes The Kyocera Torque, Doesn’t Take Shit From Other Smartphones

Grylls, man of many words uttered in a gruff, pee-drinking, yet hopeful voice is endorsing a smartphone. Let’s be real here, if he says it’s waterproof, dirt-proof and drop-proof it probably is. But let’s take a closer look, shall we? The Kyocera Torque is an LTE Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich and retailing on…

With a Ceramic Transducer, You’ll Hear Voices Inside Your Head

Japanese electronics company Kyocera has developed an innovative new transducer to replace outmoded—and underperforming—speakers in a phone. Whereas conventional phone speakers transmit sound waves to your ear drum via a multistep process of vibrations and wave travel, stopping at various aural checkpoints along the way—with the pressed to your ear, Kyocera’s ceramic transducer will transfer…

Kyocera’s Double-Headed Echo Phone Is Mutant Without the Super

The Kyocera Echo is the strangest phone I’ve ever seen. Inside, it’s just mundane—but on the outside, it’s a batshit bizarre, morphing, dual screen stab at DS form with iPad function. It fails at both. It’s freakishly bad. The Echo could have been something spectacular. With a form so over the top, it’s begging for…

Kyocera’s Dual-Screen Android Echo Phone Confirmed On Sprint’s Website

Looks like the WSJ was on to something after all; Sprint’s website confirms the existence of the dual-screen, Android-packing Kyocera Echo. It’ll apparently pivot open to 4.7 inches of display real estate, which doesn’t sound so big, does it? No more details at the moment, but hopefully David Blaine will be pulling Echo’s price, availability,…

Tonight’s Sprint Surprise: A Dual-Screen Android Phone?

Sprint’s hosting a big ol’ magic party tonight in NYC, with special drowsy-eyed guest David Blaine helping introduce “another industry first.” According to the WSJ, that means a dual-screen Android handset from Kyocera. Kyocera’s Echo will apparently feature a pair of 3.5-inch screens that can “stack side by side,” using a pivot hinge that lets…

Kyocera’s Folding OLED Phone With Shape Shifting Buttons Definitely Does Not Exist

Kyocera’s EOS phone concept is chock full of outlandish features. From its tri-fold OLED design to its unique method of using kinetic energy, the EOS is just what we like to see in a concept. That is, insane features we’re not likely to ever see. Here’s a short list: – Tri-fold OLED screen (like a…

Only in Japan: KDDI au’s Spring 2009 Cellphone Line

In case you’re curious about what else our friends across the Pacific are getting, here’s some more of KDDI au‘s Spring 2009 line. This season’s trends: 3-inch-plus screens, easy global calling and fitness. Like the Winter/Fall season’s phones, these ones are sleek clamshells chock full of features the public probably won’t use—like “Run & Walk,”…

Kyocera NS01 Cellphone’s Trusty Belt Is Easy to Access for You, Robbers

Hanging electronics from clothes always seem to scream, “please take my things,” but the Kyocera NS01 cellphone goes one step further because it’s attached to a belt. But that won’t save you from a gun. The phone has a 2.8-inch QVGA screen and comes with a 2-megapixel camera in addition to the integrated belt. It…

Kyocera Neo E1100 Brings OLED, Designer Sensibility to Low End Phone

The Kyocera Neo E1100 is a forgettable CDMA handset save for the fact that it has a glowing blue “lightpipe” and a hidden OLED display on its minimal exterior. Other than that, it has Bluetooth 2.0 and a 1.3 MP camera. But hey, it’s nice to look at and it’s coming soon to a North…

Kyocera Inkjet Printhead Spits Out 1000 Pages a Minute

I can’t say that I have ever been impressed by a printer, but the device they are cooking up at Kyocera could be a first. Their new KJ4 series printhead can churn out up to 200 meters per minute at 600 x 480 dpi, or 150 meters per minute at 600×600 dpi—which equates to about…

Kyocera Picking Up Sanyo’s Mobile Leftovers

Thrilling Monday morning news: Crappy phonemaker Kyocera is acquiring crappy phonemaker Sanyo’s mobile business for $3.7 billion. Kyocera will keep pumping out Sanyo-branded products, so Katana fans needn’t weep into the night. [Press Release]

Virgin Mobile’s Wild Card Gets Music Over the Air

How does a pre-paid service handle over-the-air music subscriptions? Answer: very cheaply. Virgin Mobile’s Wild Card by Kyocera is the first phone that can receive music from its Headliners streaming audio player. The service is $2.50 per month, and you can listen to a given song on demand for 25 cents. (Electronista says that the…

Sanyo, longtime supplier of Sprint’s wilder phones, has reached a “basic agreement” to sell its phone division to Kyocera, creating the not-too-intimidating seventh largest handset maker. [Reuters UK]

Kyocera’s Booth is the Coolest at CTIA 2007

Kyocera had the classiest CTIA booth around, composed of faux grass, wood, river-washed stones, and red structural beams. But their phones are kind of irrelevant — they need a real flagship phone. And the S-hinged clamshell, the E5000, possibly their best of show, won’t cut it. (Jump for a photo and specs.) This CTIA, so…