Yota Phone is a Dual-Sided Smartphone With E-ink
LCD placed on one side, e-ink on the other.
Yota Devices has announced the Yota Phone, an Android-powered smartphone with an LCD display situated on one side, while the other sports an e-ink electronic paper display (EPD).
Both of the handset's screen measures at 4.3 inches, with the LCD screen in particular boasting a resolution of 1280 x 720, which is around 340 ppi (pixels-per inch). The Yota Phone aims to "help consumers enjoy life's virtual side without missing the real one" by switching between the two screens.
"Technology is setting the tone of our lives rather than the other way around," Yota said. "We at Yota Devices aim to rebalance the relationship with our smartphone."
The LCD screen is predominately designed for playing games, watching movies and performing general Android tasks, while the EPD one leans more towards delivering e-books and news articles.

The black and white side automatically updates itself with social media updates, notifications, calendar entries and news stories, among others. E-ink displays, meanwhile, don't require much power, allowing that side of the Yota Phone being able to stay on without draining battery life.
Yota's upcoming smartphone sports a 1.5GHz dual-core Krait processor and runs on Google's Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system. The main camera boasts 12-megapixels, accompanied by an unspecified "HD" front-facing camera.
The Yota Phone contains a 2,100mAH battery and 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, joined by worldwide LTE support capable of connecting on the 3, 7 and 20 MIMO bands.
Yota Devices also integrated a power button that doubles as a SIM card slot, with the company promising a batch of apps that will take advantage of the dual-screens. More on the device, which launches sometime during the second half of 2013, will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February.


Great if you are reading a long article and want to switch to e-ink, or if you want to text then do that on e-ink.
Wait... Yota, please patent it worldwide before certain fruit company claims it's their innovation, I'm not trolling or kidding...
Now, at any given moment are both of the screen active? If only 1 of the screen is active, can you seamlessly switch between the screens? It'll be great if I can play games and watch movie on the color side, and for everything else I'll do it on the e-ink. Someone else mentioned about color e-ink, move on to it in the future and we can see a new trend for smart phones. True innovations
Don't worry, Samsung is already copying this was we speak. Er I mean innovating now.
But i know i would drop it... and instead of one shattered screen. I'd have two.
Gorilla Glass 2, per my earlier post.
They could use bullet proof glass and I'd find a way to break it
Just that bad with phones.