Review of Android YotaPhone

Android YotaPhone is an innovative smartphone from Yota Devices, a company based in Russia. The phone is currently only available to ship in Russia, Germany, Austria, France and Spain. The phone was unveiled late last year with the company promising that “smartphones will never be the same” again. Yota has also developed applications.

The Android device has a customised Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 version. Users can swipe and tap gestures with the  e-ink display. Other features include an accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, FM radio, micro-SIM, special YotaPhone gestures and Put2Back applications for the back screen.

The electronic paper display is always on. Android users can view notices, emails, tweets and other information in real time without picking up or even activating the phone. If the battery dies, the most recent information on the EPD will remain visible. Uses can also use this data to save  important information.

Product Specifications:

Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2

Dual Core 1.7 GHz Krait

Monoblock touch with front and back screens

133.6 x 67 x 9.99mm

146g

Black

4.3” 720x1280

LCD 16.7M colours; capacitive multi touch

16 grayscale; capacitive touch zone below the EPD for gesture controls

800/1800/2600 MHz

UMTS 900/1800/2100 MHz

GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz

Main camera 13 MP AF, LED flash, front camera

GPS w/A-GPS + Glonass

VIDEO 1080p 30fps

BATTERY 1800mAh

The electronic paper screen allows users to experience a longer lasting, more comfortable reading experience. The Android smartphone and e-reader comes as an all in one device instead of two. When users flip the phone, footnotes on the page they are reading the device as it automatically appears on the LCD.

Have you ever missed an important call, message or notification simply because it only appeared on your screen for a brief moment? The company describes its electronic paper display on the YotaPhone to show all vital notifications of your choice on-screen for as long as users need them or until they are ready to respond to them.

YotaPhone helps the user express themselves. Getting rid of a phone case and changing personal wallpaper on the e-ink screen can be conducted at any time they want. Create a personal manifesto by placing achievements and information on the back screen. The device can be used to keep motivated and to achieve personal goals.

About YotaPhone

Yota Devices is a user experience company. Our business philosophy is above all based on innovating user experience as well as on applying the best emerging technologies to enhance customer experience.

Yota Devices is a private company of vast expertise in mobile communications and connectivity devices. The company developed its first connectivity device in 2009. In 2012, Yota Devices sold more than 1 million modems and routers, representing 6% LTE connectivity devices market in the segment of modems and routers. Yota Devices' business philosophy is based on enhancing the user experience by applying the best contemporary technologies.

Moving into the already-crowded smartphone market is a logical extension of our business philosophy, experience and entrepreneurial spirit. The challenge we have set ourselves is taking the technological advances of LTE and creating a new type of smartphone which virtually redefines the customer experience for the better.