Gadgets : Yotaphone
Gadgets : Yotaphone
Coming in 2013, you can have a whole new relationship with
your smartphone. Thanks to the new YotaPhone, with two displays to help you
enjoy life’s virtual side without missing the real one.
YotaPhone claims to be aiming for a Q4 release this year,
and with the sort of internals it's packing, that might doom it to commercial
irrelevance outside its home market (Russia). Even so, I do hope they get enough
market traction to pursue a second generation, and keep the ball rolling on
this brilliant idea.
What's so brilliant about it? For me, a new technology is
truly innovative when it makes me think "this could legitimately make my
life easier or better." And that's the feeling I had within minutes of our
meeting with Yota - they found a problem with existing products (all of them),
and they fixed it in a way no one had thought to before. First, though, let me
talk about the phone.
The YotaPhone has two displays - both are 4.3", and the
e-ink display on the back is on at all times (since it consumes essentially
zero electricity when it's not being refreshed). Yota has implemented a really
interesting replacement for Android's navigation buttons, too - gestures. Swipe
all the way across the bottom of the phone for the equivalent of the home
button, swipe halfway for back, and press and hold for the recent apps menu.
Actually, I quite like it - no more worry about where your buttons are.
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