YotaPhone E Ink and LCD dual-screen smartphone out late 2013

The world’s first dual-screen smartphone with LCD and E Ink displays – YotaPhone – has been a long time coming. We first spotted it exclusively at CES 2012, then it was officially announced in December 2012 with a 2013 released date. Now it’s confirmed to be launching internationally in the second half of 2013.

The YotaPhone team has revealed that it’s joined forces with Bookmate, Russia’s fastest growing digital reading platform. The handset promises to let you browse books and magazines with virtually no power drain – you don’t even have to wake up the phone.

Let’s hope that the Bookmate deal is a sign of things to come when the YotaPhone is rolled out internationally – if they palled up with the likes of Nook or Amazon, this could be the Kindle Phone we’ve been waiting for. With Amazon selling Kindle hardware at a loss to make digital sales, that doesn’t seem impossible.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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