Kyocera Wireless yesterday at CTIA Wireless 2005 unveiled two new wireless handsets designed to meet the needs of emerging CDMA markets and other International CDMA carriers seeking to offer easy-to-use entry level handsets.

The Kyocera Topaz KX7 is a sleek, silver clamshell handset and the Kyocera Prisma KX17 is a compact, silver bar phone with an internal antenna. Topaz and Prisma feature a speakerphone, vibrate alert, polyphonic ringtones, SMS text messaging. Both phones also support Removable User Identity Module capabilities for storing removable phone information such as contact lists, contact information and text messages for easy portability between phones.

Topaz KX7 and Prisma KX17 also feature predictive text-input software providing rapid text entry in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

The Kyocera Topaz KX7 sustains up to 200 hours of standby time and up to 3 hours of talk time on a standard lithium ion battery, weighing only 95 grams and measuring 8.3cm x 4.5cm x 2.25cm. The Kyocera Prisma KX17 sustains up to 150 hours of standby time and up to 3 hours of talk time on a standard lithium ion battery, weighing only 85 grams and measuring 11.0cm x 4.5cm x 1.95cm.

Both phones will be available through CDMA carriers globally this summer, along with a full line of Genuine Accessories by Kyocera™ for enhanced style and usability.

Kyocera also has a gamepad designed by Alienware