The Kyocera Zio (also known as SANYO Zio, also stylized ''ZIO'', model numbers SCP-8600/M6000) is an

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-enabled 3G

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manufactured by

Kyocera is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. It manufactures industrial ceramics, solar power generating systems, telecommunic ...

, running Google's Android operating system. It was announced on March 23, 2010, and is expected to sell for a

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price of $169 and $216, with no carrier subsidies. As such, it will be one of the lowest cost smartphones running the Android operating system.

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, a low-cost and prepaid

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-based wireless carrier in the US, announced on March 23, 2010 that it would introduce the Zio smartphone, in late summer 2010. This would be the first Android smartphone offered by Leap Wireless or its

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subsidiary. Kyocera has stated that the phone is easily upgraded to Android version 2.0 or 2.1, based on carrier wishes.

released an update for the phone to Android 2.2 on February 28, 2011. The SANYO Zio became available to Sprint customers on October 10, 2010 with Android 2.1 (Eclair) and is one of the first to use Sprint's exclusive ''Sprint ID'' user interface.

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Kyocera Zio M6000

Zio from Cricket Wireless

Zio from Sprint
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