Yota Phone

New and innovative smartphones are hard to find considering that most American companies have the market cornered. One of the more interesting phones at the CES is the YotaPhone. The YotaPhone’s main attraction is a 4.3-inch E-Ink display that sits on the phone’s curved backside. The E-Ink screen allows users to keep certain types of information in view, such as the time, notifications or a photo, without draining battery life. Would a secondary screen be that much more useful on a phone. If we are talking about a laptop, more people are using dual screens. One of the advantages that is mentioned in the presentation is that it will keep us away from our phones. If YotaPhone users can get accustomed to leaving their phones on a table or desk, with the E-Ink display facing up, they’ll be able to keep an eye on notifications without having to pick up the phone and fiddle with it. Also users are able to take a screen shot of anything on the main screen and send it to the E-Ink screen. This phone actually opens up the playing arena for mobile application development as well. Although Yota Devices isn’t known as a big smartphone brand, the company wants to launch the YotaPhone all over the world, including the United States.