| Kyocera Wireless Corp. today announced its entry into the GSM handset market with four new GSM handsets. The new phones will launch initially in Latin America, where a number of CDMA service providers recently switched to GSM networks. Combined with its extensive CDMA expertise, Kyocera's addition of GSM to its technology portfolio also positions the company to address the rapidly growing WCDMA market. The announcement coincides with today's finalization of Kyocera acquiring Sanyo's mobile handset business, making Kyocera the world's sixth largest manufacturer of wireless phones. KWC's first four GSM handsets offer a variety of designs, feature sets and price points to suit the diverse needs of its customers: | |
Kyocera Wireless Corp. today announced three new CDMA handsets at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas; the Kyocera Neo E1100, Kyocera Mako S4000 and the Kyocera Adreno S2400. All three of the phones support cellular (800 MHz), PCS (1900 MHz) and AWS frequencies (1700 and 2100 MHz) and will be available in Q3 2008. The announcement comes on the same day that KWC unveiled its first-ever GSM handsets and its parent company, Kyocera Corp., finalized its acquisition of Sanyo's mobile phone division. The transaction makes Kyocera the sixth largest wireless phone manufacturer in the world. | 
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Kyocera Corporation today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. to acquire SANYO's mobile phone business. The agreement was approved by both companies' boards of directors today and is planned to become effective April 1, 2008.
Kyocera's goal for the acquisition is to strengthen its global telecommunications equipment business. Under the agreement, Kyocera acquires a comprehensive set of assets from SANYO relating to the research, development, design, materials procurement, manufacture, sales and marketing of CDMA handsets; PHS handsets; PHS base stations; and wireless communications systems; as well as a range of related technologies, intellectual property and patents. The acquisition is forecasted to grow worldwide annual revenues from Kyocera's global telecommunications equipment business to approximately 400 billion Japanese yen (approximately US$3.7 billion). | 
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This fall, Virgin Mobile USA's will launch the new Wild Card by Kyocera Wireless. The handset is for music lovers looking for the convenience of Bluetooth wireless technology in a sophisticated handset with the ease of texting on a full QWERTY keyboard should look to be dealt. The first Virgin Mobile handset with streaming music capability, Wild Card gives customers the ability to listen to their favorite music right through the phone, and "ups the ante" on the full texting keyboard capabilities of last year's Switch_Back phone.
Weighing in at just over 4 ounces, the sleek and stylish Wild Card "aces" great functionality within a compact and trendsetting clamshell casing. Among its most notable features are two vibrant color displays. The first on the front face of the phone is for voice calls. But by turning the phone sideways and giving its face a quick flip, customers have access to the Wild Card's wide screen -- along with a sizeable QWERTY keypad designed to make emailing, texting, IMing, gaming, browsing online, or streaming full music tracks simple and enjoyable.
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| Kyocera Wireless and Cricket Communications today announced the introduction of the Kyocera Lingo, a versatile clamshell handset with a full QWERTY keypad available for the first time in the U.S. The Lingo features a high-end ergonomic design, opening lengthwise to reveal the keypad ideal for text-messaging fanatics. It also offers a host of other features, including Bluetooth wireless technology, a 1.3 megapixel camera, voice recognition, dual color displays and a loud, clear speakerphone. Productivity tools include a scheduler, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, tip calculator, countdown timer, and voice memos. When it comes to data the Lingo is more than capable. It supports Cricket's Mobile Web, which allows customers to browse news, entertainment and sports; chat; and personalize their handsets with the latest ringtones and graphics. The Lingo will also allow customers to download games with Cricket Games & Apps. | 
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Kyocera Corp is about to purchase Sanyo Electric's money losing mobile phone business for about 50 billion yen ($435 million). Both companies share prices went higher in approval of investors looking at it as a welcome sign of consolidation in Japan's already overcrowded handset market.
Japanese handset manufacturers such as Sanyo and others face stiff competition from larger competitors such as Nokia and Motorola, as well as a maturing market. Sanyo has been restructuring with the help of Goldman Sachs and the sale of the mobile phone unit would be the latest step by Sanyo to rid non-core or struggling businesses to focus on key operations such as rechargeable batteries.
Sanyo, which has lost money for the last three business years, has sold its stake in leasing firm Sanyo Electric Credit Co to General Electric Co this year and is seeking a buyer for its microchip unit. | 
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Verizon has just launched the Kyocera K323, an entry-level feature phone. The handset sports Bluetooth wireless technology with a slcell eek internal antenna and a small clamshell design that fits right in the palm of your hand. Features: - All Digital Phone
- Camera with flash
- Bluetooth® Capable
- Speakerphone
- Voice Activated Dialing
- TTY Compatible
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4
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