subject: Russian Yota boasts it will be dual-screen phone in the first half of 2011 [print this page] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is on the verge of becoming our favorite politician. After a visit to Silicon Valley this year and is passed with iPhone 4 to play by Steve Jobs himself, is now adding to the geek cred.
In a television interview with the official responsible for technology, Sergei Chemezov, speaking about the need for investment in technology and some other Russian political blabber. Fast forward one minute, and Medvedev is to have a prototype dual-screen smartphone that other hand it is political.
is, he says, is made entirely by our wireless Yota, and will appear in its WiMAX network next year. The gadget has an unconventional design and curved screens on both the front and rear. A source says, the back looks like e-ink, but it is entirely speculative, since instead of the prototype, it might as well be just a mock-up dummy phone. One can certainly hope, though. How to achieve curved screens, unless they went with flexible displays Samsung is a different story for another time. The plastic casing looks pretty ugly, and besides, why would you want to come to the president of the prototype is not working?
Take all you want, but after a Russian carrier made HTC to develop its first mobile WiMAX, based on HD2 in 2008, there is no sound coming from a surprise, even outrageous claims.
