Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 4, 2013 @03:08AM from the waiting-for-pixel-qi dept.

OldJuke writes "Called the YotaPhone, the device pairs a traditional LCD color touch-screen on one side with a black-and-white, electronic-paper display on the other, allowing users to continuously view data in real time without having to constantly wake up their phones and drain their batteries. General interaction will be done through the LCD screen, but the e-paper display allows an image to be displayed at all times — from maps, airline boarding passes and family photos to Twitter messages and emails — but only uses power when the picture changes. BBC News interviewed the company's leader, Vlad Martynov, for a hands-on demonstration."

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Re:Durability? by X0563511 · 2013-12-04 03:47 · Score: 3, Informative

When was the last time you found a cellphone case that wasn't custom shaped for the phone? It's not like they have uniform physical characteristics.

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Re:Plus touch by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-04 04:03 · Score: 5, Informative

"Also nice to have, ditch the Google part of Android and gives us a clean Android install."
I'm not even going to comment on how dumb this is, I think it speaks for itself. Want to ditch the Microsoft part of Windows while you're at it?