Kyocera gets Koi

Maybe it was the Motorola V70, maybe it was the Sony Ericsson SO505i, but somewhere along the line a new trend in cellphone design got started. Flipphones are SO last year, 2004 is the year of the twistphone.
Motorola announced the V80 a few weeks ago, an advanced follow-up to the V70 with a color screen, camera, Bluetooth and all the other advanced features its predecessor lacked. Now Kyocera has practically copied Motorola's new design with a CDMA version called the Koi. Like all America-bound CDMA phones, it lacks Bluetooth, but the Koi makes up for it (sort of) with a 1.2 megapixel camera and fast 1xRTT data connection to send off those big pictures.