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If Kyocera isn't interested in KURV, why should we be?

You can't blame Don McGuire, vice president of global marketing at Kyocera Wireless Corp. He's enthusiastic. He's working with WildSeed, and launching something called KURV. Our Sniffer tried to find out just what on earth KURV was ...

Here's a section of a packet intercepted by Sniffer: "Young people are passionate about everything from fashion and music to their hairstyles," said Don McGuire, vice president of global marketing at Kyocera Wireless Corp. "By offering products for everyone from the 'mobile newbie' to the 'fashion fiend' to the 'extreme multitasker,' we're giving young consumers choice in how their mobile devices can be extensions of their lifestyles."

Wow! But, sorry to bother you, Don; what does KURV mean? Passionate! - yes, we can feel ourselves positively tingling with passion, old fruit. But what is it? a phone? a PDA? a toy?

"Leading the way was KURV(TM), a unique new premium converged device that brings together the best of wireless telephony with the best of gaming, music and visual entertainment."

No - won't do. Let's try Wildseed. It says:

"Wildseed Ltd., a software company pioneering Smart Skin intelligent faceplates and KLONE, the identical twin singer/songwriter act of Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski, the twins popularized through the latest Coors Light commercial campaign, today announced the KLONE Smart Skin. Concurrently, Wildseed unveiled the KLONE Smart Skin at North America's largest wireless show, CTIA Wireless 2003."

And, it adds helpfully, " The KLONE Smart Skin will be available for use with Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s upcoming KURV phone."

Does that help? It didn't help our Hunky Mouse. So he headed off to the home page. It has a "search" box. Type in KURV and ...

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Well, no. Can't be bothered, frankly. If it's not of interest to Kyocera, why should anybody else waste time on it?