Kyocera Rise linked to Sprint and Virgin Mobile in leak, clue vanishes in a hot minute

[![Kyocera Rise linked to Sprint and Virgin in phantom leak][1] ][2]

Kyocera has [already committed][3] to launching the [Hydro][4] with Boost Mobile next month, but the [Rise][5] is still the bridesmaid, and not a bride -- at least, not until a blink-and-you'll-miss-it leak that emerged this weekend. A Twitter update by EV leaks has the Android 4.0 QWERTY slider attached to [Sprint][6] and [Virgin Mobile][7], with a press photo of the Sprint version as evidence. Unfortunately, that's about all we'll get to see in the near future: the post and the whole account ceased to exist not long after they first appeared, which makes permanent proof a little hard to come by other than through an _Unwired View_ recap. Still, we already know the Rise is destined for CDMA providers in the US, and Sprint's longstanding [partnership with Kyocera][8] makes the Rise an obvious candidate as the carrier's next on-the-cheap messaging device -- the image may just give our hunches some meaning.

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