Dual-screen YotaPhone 3 Slated for 2017 Release
The iPhone 8 may be the talk of the town but there are other players that we should be looking at as well, and one of them is the YotaPhone, a revolutionary gadget by Russian phone manufacturer Yota Devices.
A couple of years ago, the company launched an Indiegogo project for production of the the YotaPhone 2 for American customers, but in spite of the interesting premise – the low-power e-Ink display on the back (which can always be on and display relevant info) and a regular colored LCD screen on the front – it was canceled due to scaling issues.
While it may not be the most popular phone in the world, YotaPhone still holds promise and Yota Devices knows that as evidenced in its announcement at the China-Russia Expo in Harbin this year.
The good news is that the YotaPhone 3 will likely ship this September. According to Engadget, specs are as follows:
- Snapdragon 625 chipset
- 64GB or 128GB of storage for a more favorable $350 or $450
- 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED display on the front and a 5.2-inch 720p e-Ink touchscreen on the back
- fingerprint sensor
- Android Nougat, 4GB of RAM
- dual SIM slots (one of which also serves as a microSD slot)
- a 12-megapixel main camera with dual flash, a 13-megapixel front camera
- a 3,200mAh battery
- a USB-C port which also does audio output
