{"id":8614,"date":"2014-01-05T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2014-01-05T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:34:37","slug":"reviewing-the-russian-reversible-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/reviewing-the-russian-reversible-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing The Russian Reversible Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an LCD screen on one side, and an e-Ink screen on the opposite side, Yota&#8217;s prototype smartphone was one of the big winners of CES 2013. Now, a year later, the handset is now on sale in a number of European territories. I&#8217;ve taken a closer look at the handset <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ewanspence\/2014\/01\/04\/yota-phone-review-the-android-smartphone-from-russia-with-two-screens\/\">over on Forbes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The easiest way to think about the e-Ink screen implementation is that it\u00a0is related\u00a0but subservient to the main interactions on your smartphone.\u00a0To set up one of Yota\u2019s applications on the e-Ink screen you need to \u2018send it to the back\u2019 from the LCD screen&#8230;\u00a0In my time so far with the Yota Phone, the answer is yes. By virtue of being e-Ink, the second screen is always on, drawing very little power, and Yota\u2019s customizations of Android and their own apps which use the screen prove the concept works. With just the e-Ink screen I\u2019ve been able to navigate around Edinburgh, check my diary and upcoming appointments, follow my favourite websites via RSS, read a number of eBooks, control the playback of music on my smartphone, and naturally see what the time is. All without powering up the battery hungry LCD screen on my smartphone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a generation one product from a company new to the smartphone world (but not to telecoms, Yota have a strong background in routers and modems), and while I&#8217;m excited to see what they come up with next, the first handset out of the gate is a worthy handset that is practical in day-to-day use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an LCD screen on one side, and an e-Ink screen on the opposite side, Yota&#8217;s prototype smartphone was one of the big winners of CES 2013. Now, a year later, the handset is now on sale in a number of European territories. I&#8217;ve taken a closer look at the handset over on Forbes: The easiest way to think about the e-Ink screen implementation is that it\u00a0is related\u00a0but subservient to the main interactions on your smartphone.\u00a0To set up one of Yota\u2019s applications on the e-Ink screen you need to \u2018send it to the back\u2019 from the LCD screen&#8230;\u00a0In my time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reviewing The Russian Reversible Smartphone","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25,13],"tags":[4964,3306,4965,445,1011,240,4962,4963],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-e-ink","tag-forbes","tag-reversible","tag-review","tag-russia","tag-smartphone","tag-yota","tag-yota-phone","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}