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The YotaPhone from Russia’s Yota Devices presents an intriguing take on the smartphone by offering a dual-screen device wherein one side is a typical 4.3-inch LCD touchscreen and the other is an electronic paper display with e-Ink. The Android-based handset is going on sale today in Russia, Austria, France, Spain, and Germany, and it will also be available in twenty CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), European, and Middle East markets by the end of Q1 2014. Notably absent from that list is the Americas. So it goes. The YotaPhone concept offers a new way to view notifications by showing them on the eInk side of the unit all the time. This solves that cloying need to constantly “wake...
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"Two screens this phone has, buy it you will." If we were in charge of YotaPhone's marketing, that 's the tagline we'd use, provided Disney didn't give us grief for imitating the other Yoda. Either way, Russian company Yota Devices is offering up something interesting and unique here. In an attempt to merge the best of both worlds, the front of the YotaPhone sports a 4.3-inch 1280x720 LCD capacitive mulit-touch display for smartphone functions, and the backside wields a 4.3-inch 640x360 electronic paper display with a capacitive touch zone below. The electronic paper display is always on and ready for displaying eBooks. It can also be used to see notices, emails, tweets, and other information...
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