YotaPhone: New Touchscreen and E-Ink Display

We saw a couple of Dual Screen smartphones from major electronic companies last year,but neither are as practical as the yotaphone,a prototypre smartphone from Russian company Yota Devices.Instead of having two colored touchscreens, the Android phone has an LCD touchscreen on front and an E-ink display at the back.

In an interview with The Verge, Yota Devices CEO Vladislav Martynov provided a couple of examples of how customers can take advantage of the E-ink display.First, because the E-ink display consumes very little power, it can be left on at all times and used to display at-a-glance information, like a calendar, call and text notifications or even a Twitter stream.

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The YotaPhone will be shown off in February 2013 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Its predicted price tag: a whopping $500. 

 Have you ever wished your phone had a screen at the back as well? I guess for some people, a 3.5-inch screen just does not give enough real estate. Or maybe, you have decision-making issues, so much so that you can’t decide which side of your phone to look at. That may be pushing it too far, but just in case you do have issues with having a display on only one side of your phone, there is a product that provides a solution: the YotaPhone.The YotaPhone is an Android-based mobile phone which gives you two displays – front and back.

The front boasts a high res display, while the back has electronic paper display, or EPD. The LCD display in front is 4.3 inches and serves as the main phone, running on Android (4.2 Jellybean). That’s not such a bad size and Jellybean does satisfy Android users. The screen res: 1280×720.

Single-screen phones are so 2012. Russian phone maker Yota Devices today announced a dual-screen, Android-based phone that is expected to hit worldwide shelves in the second half of next year. Dubbed the YotaPhone, the smartphone totes a full-color LCD screen on one side and an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other. "This will be the first time that people will be able to personalize the information they want to receive on their phones in an effortless way," Yota Devices CEO Vlad Martynov said in a statement. "You tell YotaPhone what information you want and when you want it. It becomes your personal assistant reminding you of what's important to you."

Each 4.3-inch display serves different functions and purposes: Users can use the LCD side to watch videos and play games, then flip the phone over to read a book or magazine on the electronic paper display. The YotaPhone will display important information — boarding passes, maps, tickets —even when the battery dies.