Russian Launches New YotaPhone 2 an Andriod with two Screens Face

Front of YotaPhone 2

Russian-based Yota Devices  has launched Yotaphone 2 this week in London. The company has developed on top of the stock Google experience with a light touch to provide software that is unique to its handset.

 The phone which has qHD 960×540 eInk-based screen gives the handset an initial ‘wow’ factor, and the Russian team has taken all the feedback from the first YotaPhone handset released in late Q4 2013 and applied to its second handset. That means the eInk screen is larger (up from 640 x 360 pixels) and the whole screen has a capacitive touch layer – the original just had a touchpad underneath the screen

Back of YotaPhone 2

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Although, YotaPhone is Yota’s top device, the specifications aren’t quite up there in ‘flagship’ territory of phones like Samsung or IPhone. It comes with a Snapdragon 800 processor running at 2.2 GHz, backed up by 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. With a list price of £555 in the UK (£462 / $720 before taxes) you would expect a faster and more recent processor backed with more memory.

Forbes think bringing the cost down in the base hardware allows for a saving to offset the cost of the eInk screen, also reduce price due to the handset slightly down on power and lacks a microSD card to add extra storage.

 

 YotaPhone 2 is that it is a standard Android experience, with access to Google Play services, the full range of third-party apps, and everything  that makes Android what it is

 

The YotaPhone 2 comes with two cameras, an eight megapixel autofocus camera on the rear, and a two megapixel camera on the front of the handset. Both of these can be described as ‘adequate’ without being stunning.


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