The dual-screen Android-powered e-ink hybrid YotaPhone smartphone, which bites its thumb at those that say there's nothing new in smartphone hardware, has gone on sale in the U.K.
The device is available to buy via Yota Device's online store on its website – costing £419 to U.K. buyers (which, incidentally, makes it a tenner cheaper than the new 8GB iPhone 5c).
The YotaPhone handset sets itself apart from the ranks of identikit slab-shaped Android smartphones by having an e-ink screen on its rear that users can send content to for powerless display or easier-on-the-eye reading.
Its 4.3-inch main pane is a full-touch, 720 x 1280 colour LCD but that's just the half of this handset. On the rear it's 4.3-inch monochrome e-ink screen, used in conjunction with the frontal LCD, supports new types of usage for a smartphone.
Examples of what to do with a supplementary e-ink screen include using it to display always-on notifications so you don't have to keep waking your phone up to check in on social stuff, or personalising the look of the handset with photos or wallpaper.
The e-ink screen can also be used to help reduce battery consumption if the user sends text content to the rear screen and reads it there, making use of the lower power display, rather than relying on the more thirsty LCD pane.
The first-gen YotaPhone's e-ink screen is not full touch — there's a touch-sensitive panel beneath the screen that's used to navigate and interact with content displayed on it. Which can make interacting with the e-ink screen a little fiddly.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/19/yota-phone-uk-launch/?ncid=rss
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The device is available to buy via Yota Device's online store on its website – costing £419 to U.K. buyers (which, incidentally, makes it a tenner cheaper than the new 8GB iPhone 5c).
The YotaPhone handset sets itself apart from the ranks of identikit slab-shaped Android smartphones by having an e-ink screen on its rear that users can send content to for powerless display or easier-on-the-eye reading.
Its 4.3-inch main pane is a full-touch, 720 x 1280 colour LCD but that's just the half of this handset. On the rear it's 4.3-inch monochrome e-ink screen, used in conjunction with the frontal LCD, supports new types of usage for a smartphone.
Examples of what to do with a supplementary e-ink screen include using it to display always-on notifications so you don't have to keep waking your phone up to check in on social stuff, or personalising the look of the handset with photos or wallpaper.
The e-ink screen can also be used to help reduce battery consumption if the user sends text content to the rear screen and reads it there, making use of the lower power display, rather than relying on the more thirsty LCD pane.
The first-gen YotaPhone's e-ink screen is not full touch — there's a touch-sensitive panel beneath the screen that's used to navigate and interact with content displayed on it. Which can make interacting with the e-ink screen a little fiddly.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/19/yota-phone-uk-launch/?ncid=rss
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