Best Technology Article: Yotaphone 2: phone with e-ink screen

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Yotaphone 2: phone with e-ink screen – Open

That YotaPhone would come to the Netherlands was already known, but yesterday it was finally there. At the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen the YotaPhone 2 was presented. A phone with additional e-ink display on the back. Wire break was obviously in and made the following video report.

The YotaPhone 2 is the first smartphone in Europe with such additional e-ink screen. YotaPhone director Vlad Martynov mentions in the press release roaring striking gadget a totally new mobile device. “Not only by adding an energy efficient electronic paper screen, but also because the two screens work together optimally.”

And that’s true. Through a flexible swypebeweging switch you from the regular Full HD display to the e-ink screen. So you can, in theory, everything you do with your regular smartphone, do the black-and-white e-Ink screen. We thought at Wire breakage that this was mainly a funny idea – usually this kind of innovations are doomed to fail – we were playing after an hour particularly impressed. This had to do not only with the quality of the screens, but also because of the design.

Bold designs

You can hardly imagine it, but YotaPhone has e-Ink screen completely eliminated very nice in the cabinet. In other words, the display is off, you have not quite realized there is a second screen on the back. And that is just very cool.

Furthermore, the YotaPhone is a pretty decent smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 2.2 GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 4G support and 16 GB of storage memory. The device runs on Android 4.4.2, but simple but very stylish YotaPhone shell, including a special YotaHub to offer suggestions for reading books and articles on e-inkschrm. Above the E-Ink screen on the back is finally an 8 megapixel camera with LED, which can shoot in Full HD.

The YotaPhone 2 is now on sale in the Netherlands. The retail price of this remarkable new gadget is 699 euros.