26 February 2013

YotaPhone: Hands-on with the dual-display smartphone at MWC 2013

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The Mobile World Congress is not only big companies in mobile industry a venue for their own devices, even some smaller companies like Yota are represented with a booth. Yota is likely most readers have no idea, although the Russian tradition company one of the most interesting products of the MWC "in store" has. So we get to face a smartphone that has the same two displays.

On the front of YotaPhones there is a 4.3 inch large LCD screen on the back of the smartphone has an e-ink display installed. Some readers might the term "e-ink", familiar from ebook readers, this technology has been previously installed in devices like the Amazon Kindle.

The display on the front dissolves with 1280 × 800 pixels, both displays are also protected by Corning Gorilla Glass third Designed during the display on the front touch input, the rear screen can be operated only through a capacitive strip below the display. Well below the front display this bar has been installed, which by implication means the renunciation of capacitive buttons.

Rather, by means of wiping gestures on the Actions executed. One comes across a wiping gesture to left again a step back. According to Anton Tarasenko, head of product development, gestures are awarded when YotaPhone great importance. So it is still possible to use a two-finger Swypes the top of the screen to reflect any content displayed on the E-Ink display.

The advantage of the E-Ink display is to conserve battery energy. So it is still possible even with empty battery display content on the e-ink display. An example of this took Anton to use an electronic boarding pass, which remained even when the battery is still on the back. The functions of the YotaPhones were so extensive that Anton Tarasenko get ready some features explained himself in a video present. Certainly, not all functions are shown, but you can see how the future might look like in a smartphone.

The release is scheduled for the second Quaratl 2013, at a price we could not have precise information to be made. According Yota will be based on this current Android phones with similar features. The appearance is not final yet, so in addition to other materials, other hardware could be considered.

Currently, the rapid YotaPhone by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor driven, has 2GB of RAM and 32GB internal memory. The microSIM is behind the power button. When camera is a 12 megapixel module for use.

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