Cricket has announced that it is carrying the Kyocera Luno, a basic flip-phone that is targeted to the no-frills consumer.
The Luno is about as basic as you can get nowadays, with its clamshell design and standard keypad. Kyocera managed to include two displays, one on the outside of the flip to display time and caller ID, and a 1.8-inch screen on the inside for main phone functions. » Read more: Kyocera Luno


MetroPCS has a lot of good, basic cell phones. Perhaps that’s why the $39.00 Kyocera Laylo M1400, which would likely fare better on another carrier, doesn’t quite stand out. It’s cute, it’s cheap, it’s simple, and it has great voice quality. But while this is a fine option for voice-focused MetroPCS subscribers, there are better phones out there.
For the cost-conscious consumer most concerned with basic phone features, the S1600 is strikes an ideal balance between style and affordability. It is a thin candy bar-style phone with a VGA camera that supports SMS, MMS and WAP. It is dual-band (900/1800 or 850/1900 MHz) and supports downloadable ringtones and photos.
The unusual dual-screen Kyocera Echo phone ($299 minus a $100 mail-in rebate) is a great idea executed incompletely. Plenty of people want to do two things at once, or at least flip between tasks.
The Kyocera Domino offers portability and decent call quality, but there are so many design drawbacks, you’d do better to choose a different entry-level phone.