The dual-screen YotaPhone 3 has been years in the making, and it finally has a definitive launch date in China, where it'll be known simply as the Yota 3.
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If it's got wacky hardware features, it's gotta be a Chinese flagship smartphone, right? Meizu is rumored to be cutting the edge and painting the rear.
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The Yotaphone was a novel innovation in the smartphone field. It had two screens with the latter one being a power-efficient E Ink display fit for reading to your heart’s content and a conventional display up front for all your other needs. The Yotaphone isn’t extinct, but one has been hard to come by in the US, thanks to the Russian government’s unwielding influence. No, we’re not just talking about
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Nextbit is a small band of rebels who want to free people from the limits of today’s mobile technology, or at least that’s how Nextbit describes itself.The device the company is peddling is called “robin”, and it promises to be a superphone that lives in the cloud. Let me pause for a moment while you “ooh” and “ahh” over all the buzz words and promises. M’kay, ya done now? Good. Let’s move on.Nexbit, at the core, is a crowdsourced phone maker – just like Yotaphone, Fairphone, and others.YotaphoneYotaphone fell flat on its ...
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The highly ingenious dual-screened YotaPhone, and especially the YotaPhone 2 made quite a splash at various technology expos and trade fairs, but outside of that closed circuit, it was unfortunately very difficult for actual mobile enthusiasts to get their hands on the unique Androids.Crowdfunded for a long overdue US ...
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Update: Nate Hoffelder of Ink, Bits & Pixels recently ran a statement from Yota CEO Vlad Martyanov debunking the below story. We’ll clarify if and when we receive comment from Yota. Original Story: YotaPhone is the Russian company known for its dual-screen smartphones; its most recent model, the YotaPhone 2, is a step-up in every aspect compared to
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The YotaPhone 2 packs a lot of features that set it apart from the typical smartphone. It’s got more curves than we usually see these days, a volume rocker that does double-duty as a SIM card tray, and it comes to us from Russia. Oh, and it’s got a second screen around back.The YotaPhone 2’s E-Paper Display (EPD) is a 4.7″ 960×540 E-Ink panel that dominates the rear cover of the device. With no backlight, just 16 levels of greyscale and a pixel density of only 235ppi, it’s not all that impressive on paper – but YotaPhone nonetheless manages to squeeze ...
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Last MWC, we had our first look at the YotaPhone, a unique smartphone with two displays – one was a regular smartphone display, while the other was an e-ink display, perfect for both outdoor visibility and power management. Now we’re here at CES 2015, having just acquired the sequel to review in our offices. But first, to begin our coverage, here’s a YotaPhone 2 unboxing.Spoiler alert: the YotaPhone 2 box is beyond cool. There’s a whole lot of attention to detail that’s obvious, and we’re hoping that translates to the phone itself when we give it a test ...
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Updated with links to stream and download the high-quality audio version of the podcast, as well as timecodes for all the stories mentioned. We hope you enjoyed – see you next week!Is Nokia’s new tablet just an iPad ripoff – or just what Android needs? Will Gorilla Glass 4 finally stop you from shattering your smartphone? And is the Gear S a good enough smartwatch to make the dumbphone obsolete? These are the pressing questions on the docket this week as the mobile industry prepares to end a wild year on a weird note, and we’re gonna tackle them one by one in the ...
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Sadly, Mobile World Congress is now over. This year’s mobile show in Barcelona, Spain was one of the busiest, device-driven shows in recent years. We saw a boatload of handsets, a few tablets, some wearables, and a lot of future products that won’t be available for a while. Needless to say, there was plenty for just about everyone to be excited about at least something: a new Galaxy S smartphone, three new wrist-mounted Gear devices, a new Sony flagship, new additions to the HTC Desire lineup, new Huawei ...
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If anyone ever tells you that smartphones are all the same these days, that every manufacturer is copying everyone else to the point where all our phone are homogeneous, uninspiring slabs, you just point them on over to the YotaPhone, the handset that just has to do things a little differently. We saw the first YotaPhone debut last year, marrying a rear-mounted electronic ink to a typical full-color smartphone display, offering a persistent output, low power consumption, and great daylight readability.
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“We are inspired by taking risks and innovating mobile communications to bring value to users. We are a start-up company that had a big idea and we’ve executed on that idea. We looked at the smartphone from another side, literally, and created YotaPhone.” I love this quote. It’s a little heavy on the corporate buzzwords for my taste, but the idea of a small group of dedicated individuals banding together to will a dream into reality -particularly a dream as unconventional as YotaPhone- is an inspiring tale even to those who don’t share my love for the underdog. And Yota ...
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Russian phone maker, Yota Devices, is at it again. At MWC 2013, we here at Pocketnow finally got some hands-on time with the unusual creation from Yota Devices, a diversion from the typical one-screen smartphone: the YotaPhone. This phone, from the front looked pretty normal. But flipping it around to the backside revealed a large and very useful e-ink display. But by the time it released, just over two months ago, the phone’s internals ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the current updates to the Google Search app for Android, and why is this important. We then talk about the new Bluetooth 4.1 standard, and how this improves your experience while mobile. Then we talk about the YotaPhone launch, what’s cool, and what’s not about this device. Samsung follows the news as we talk about its new patent focused on bringing us transparent displays. We end today’s show talking about Samsung’s device launch plans for Q1 2014, and why this is a dramatic change to the past. All this and more ...
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We’ve seen the dual-screen YotaPhone in action almost a year ago at the 2013 MWC in Barcelona, and, while at that time it was a proof-of-concept giving us a peek at things to come, the phone from Russia has been made available today in several regions, including its home market. Austria, France, Spain and Germany are joining Russia in the list of countries where one can purchase this dual-screen Android from the YotaPhone online store. However, if you want to grab it in a brick-and-mortar store, ...
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