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Dual-Screen Siam 7x Smartphone Beats The Odds, Hits The Market

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Back in November, we wrote about the Siam 7x, a dual-screen smartphone from a virtually unknown company (CRBT, Inc.) that had never before made hardware. That’s a recipe for vaporware soup if we’ve ever heard one, but it appears that CRBT beat the odds, as the Siam 7x is now on sale.

You can snag one for $549 from the Siam website or Amazon. (For some reason, there’s a white version of the phone on Amazon that’s $50 less at $500. On the Siam site, the white version is still $549.)

For details on the Siam 7x and the company making it, head over to our original article.

Seth Colaner is the News Director for Tom's Hardware. Follow him on Twitter @SethColaner. Follow us on Facebook, Google+, RSS, Twitter and YouTube.

9 Comments Comment from the forums
  • mrmez 24 February 2016 02:55
    Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only look at one side at a time, right?
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  • f-14 24 February 2016 03:54
    Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only look at one side at a time, right?
    a new era of the game ' battleship '
    what if you wanted to see what you were recording for a video? then this is the phone for you!
    most importantly where this phone is going to be a huge success... women who take selfies, because now you can see what your are doing/ taking a picture of.
    that's over a million phones sold right there.

    i'm still waiting for the dual 8" screens folding tablet to replace books. scrolling doesn't allow for imagines to be next to pages of descriptive text. very important in fantasy novels and in astronomical science and engineering.
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  • whiteodian 24 February 2016 05:16
    One screen is a 720P color and the other is e-ink like a kindle reader. Good for always on notifications and clock.
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  • tiagoluz8 24 February 2016 05:19
    this is actually a good idea for someone to make a module for the LG G5, with an e-ink screen in the back for an even better power economy then that "aways on" thing they have.
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  • modbus 24 February 2016 15:06
    Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only look at one side at a time, right?
    a new era of the game ' battleship '
    what if you wanted to see what you were recording for a video? then this is the phone for you!
    most importantly where this phone is going to be a huge success... women who take selfies, because now you can see what your are doing/ taking a picture of.
    that's over a million phones sold right there.

    i'm still waiting for the dual 8" screens folding tablet to replace books. scrolling doesn't allow for imagines to be next to pages of descriptive text. very important in fantasy novels and in astronomical science and engineering.

    What are you on about? Take a video and you can see it on the screen facing you, take a selfie and you can see it on the screen facing you.
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  • anathema_forever 24 February 2016 17:59
    I would buy one if it cost like 200 dollars less and I needed a new phone, this is basically what I want. Nice battery life for ebook reading with E-ink display, dual sim so I can pay for data and T and T seperately. But at 550 this is flagship prices I could buy a Nexus6P for less than this.
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  • Davinlevey 26 February 2016 15:39
    Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only look at one side at a time, right?
    a new era of the game ' battleship '
    what if you wanted to see what you were recording for a video? then this is the phone for you!
    most importantly where this phone is going to be a huge success... women who take selfies, because now you can see what your are doing/ taking a picture of.
    that's over a million phones sold right there.

    i'm still waiting for the dual 8" screens folding tablet to replace books. scrolling doesn't allow for imagines to be next to pages of descriptive text. very important in fantasy novels and in astronomical science and engineering.

    Is ... is this a troll? It's either one of the best ones I've seen or .. I just.. buh
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  • Nossy 26 February 2016 17:23
    2screens? 3hr battery life? When you are taking a selfy, don't you just switch the camera? Or the when taking a video, you see what you are shooting on your screen already?
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  • whiteodian 28 March 2016 04:41
    The second screen is an e-ink screen like a kindle reader. The main one is a FHD color screen.
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