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YotaPhone, the dual-screen mobile device that made a splash at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, will reportedly launch internationally before Christmas.

The YotaPhone has an 4.3-inch HD LCD display on the front and an e-ink display on the back. The idea is that you can use the colour LCD display like a normal Android phone, and receive notifications, read news or send maps to the rear e-paper display to save battery.
The YotaPhone is made by Russian smartphone manufacturer Yota, which also provides mobile broadband services in the country. The YotaPhone won the CNET Best of CES Award for 'Hottest Mobile Device' at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show.
At the time, the device featured 4G LTE, Android 4.1, a 4.3-inch 1280p HD display, a 12-megapixel camera, and a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus (MSM8960) chip. However, it is likely that at least some of these specs will be updated ahead of the launch, which TechCrunch reports will be before Christmas.
The YotaPhone is not the first dual-screen smartphone – earlier this year Samsung launched ‘the Hennessy’, a dual-screen flip phone with a touch-screen on both the outer and inner surfaces. However, it is the first to combine an LCD screen with an e-ink display.
Yota Devices chief executive Vlad Martynov claims that the YotaPhone represents "a whole new archetype in smartphones". As well as saving battery, the e-ink display also provides a more comfortable reading experience and lets users view notifications without having to activate their phone.
Reports in the Russian press suggest that the YotaPhone will ship with a price tag of 20,000 rubles (roughly £380), but the company has so far made no announcements on pricing.

 Product Specifications

OS Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2
CPU Dual Core 1.7 GHz Krait
FORM FACTOR Monoblock touch with front and back screens
DIMENSIONS 133.6 x 67 x 9.99mm
WEIGHT 146g
COLOURS Black and white
MAIN SCREEN 4.3” 720x1280 LCD, 16.7M colours; capacitive multi touch
BACK SCREEN 4.3” 360x640 EPD, 16 grayscale; capacitive touch zone below the EPD for gesture controls
NETWORK LTE 800/1800/2600 MHz, UMTS 900/1800/2100 MHz, GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz
CAMERA Main camera 13 MP AF, LED flash, front camera 1MP
MEMORY 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC
CONNECTIVITY WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, BT v4.0, GPS w/A-GPS + Glonass
VIDEO 1080p 30fps; H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4, WebM
AUDIO MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR, MIDI, WAV
BATTERY 1800mAh
OTHER Accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, FM radio, micro-SIM, special YotaPhone gestures and Put2Back applications for the back screen


Source : The Telegraph

Samsung is reportedly planning to release a Galaxy smartphone next year with a three-sided display that wraps around the edges of the device.

The phone will use an upgraded version of Samsung’s technology called Youm, currently featured in the curved Galaxy Round handset, two people familiar with the plans told Bloomberg.
The idea is that the user will be able to read messages from an angle. However, Samsung plans to have each side of the display operate independently, according to the report.
Samsung does not have a specific release date for the new device, but one person said the handset is likely to come out during the second half of next year.
Samsung unveiled a prototype of its Youm flexible display technology at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Youm uses OLED display technology, and is designed to bring out better colours and contrast with an extremely thin form factor.
Brian Berkeley, the senior vice president of Samsung's display lab, showed off a prototype of a phone with a Youm display bent around the sides at CES. He said the technology will let the company's partners make bendable, rollable, and foldable displays
Then in October Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Round. Billed as the world's first curved screen smartphone, the device features a flexible 5.7-inch high definition display and is designed to allow users to check the information such as the date, time, battery life and missed calls more easily while the home screen is off.
The global flexible display industry is predicted to grow rapidly in the next few years. Research firm IHS Display estimates the market will be worth $1.5 billion (£900 million) by 2016 and more than $10 billion by 2019.
LG Electronics has also unveiled a curved smartphone called G Flex. The vertically curved design of its G Flex smartphone is optimised for the average face, to deliver improved voice and sound quality, according to LG.
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Source : The Telegraph

BlackBerry's messenger service receives upgrades for Android and iOS platforms

BlackBerry has announced a series of updates for its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service for iPhone and Android platforms that will be rolled out Friday, 15th November 2013.
BBM, which was downloaded more than 20 millions time in the week after its re-launch in October, has been upgraded to fix a series of glitches, as well to add new features.
For iOS, BBM will now support iPod and iPad devices, and an issue where some users would be missing BBM contact names has now been fixed, according to the company.
Some issues with language support have also been remedied.
For both platforms BlackBerry have launched a ‘tell your friends’ feature to help you connect using BBM’s sharing tools.
You will also be able to invite BBM contacts to BBM Groups by email, even if you do not know their PIN.
Specifically for Android, BlackBerry say they have addressed an issue where some users were experiencing very high battery use, as well as creating BBM contact categories.
BBM used to be exclusive to BlackBerry smartphones, but is now available as a free download in Google Play and the App Store.
Android smartphones must be running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean (Android 4.x) and iPhones must be running iOS 6 and iOS 7.
Android and iPhone users who download the BBM app can carry out both one-on-one and group text chats, and share files such as photos and voice notes instantly.
Using the ‘Broadcast Message’ function they can also send messages to all of their BBM contacts in one go.
BBM is widely recognised as BlackBerry’s most prized asset apart from its corporate email, but its 80 million users are less than half the 200 million people who use WhatsApp across platforms.
Upon re-launching the service, Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President of BBM, said: “It is great to see so many people downloading BBM, but the true measurement for us is engagement – the connections being made and the conversations in which our BBM community engages.
"The power of BBM has always been the active, real conversations and interaction that our customers enjoy.
“From here on out, we will focus on active users of BBM and will no longer focus on simple download numbers.”

Source : The Telegraph

Goodbye smeary fingerprints across your tablet screen, the eye-controlled tablet is now available for all.

According to Copenhagen-based company The Eye Tribe who make the clip-on gadget, it will soon be common place for all our currently touchscreen devices.
Connecting via a USB 3 connection, the Eye Tribe device hooks onto a tablet and instantly allows the user to control the functions using their eye movement.
"We can actually track exactly at what point on the screen you are looking. And we can do that very fast and very accurately," explained Sune Alstrup Johansen from The Eye Tribe, at this year's TechCrunch technology expo in Berlin.
While eye-tracking features are already standard on some devices, the technology is still far from commonplace.
Johansen says: "In five years, it will be in most of the mobile devices, and you will think back, how did we even, what was it like before."

Android 4.4 KitKat is catered towards wearable devices and cheaper phones, a source says

 Android 4.4 KitKat could be Google's latest attempt to make Android devices cheaper, according to leaked documents.

Google wants its new software to work well on low-end phones in addition to the more expensive Samsung Galaxy and HTC devices, according to blogger Amir Efrati who said he has seen confidential Google documents.

Efrati said the key improvement will be better memory management to allow "entry-level devices" to run with just 512MB of RAM.

Currently less than half of Android devices are running the latest version of the operating system which creates problems for app developers who rely on users having updated features.

The company also reportedly wants to improve the operating software to make it suitable for wearable computing.

The new version could include support for three new sensors: geomagnetic rotation vector, step detection and step counters, which could be Android's way of answering Apple's inclusion of a dedicated motion processor in its latest iPhone.

Efrati added that the update could also include power saving options with both sensor and WiFi batching to help improve battery life.

He also claimed the KitKat will include native support for a smartphone to become an infrared remote control, and to emulate payment cards that use near-field communication.

He said: "Google wants your Android device to be a remote control. The next version of Android lets developers build apps that control TVs, tuners, switches and other devices by sending infrared signals."

Source : The Telegrapgh

Shoto app lets you automatically share smartphone photos with friends

A new app is launching in the UK today that uses a combination of location and phonebook details to automatically create albums of all the photos taken together by a group of friends at a given place and time.
Known as Shoto, the aim of the app is to solve the problem of never getting to see the photos that other people have taken an event, like a wedding or a office party. However, it also includes privacy controls that let the user select which people at the event get to see their pictures.
When the user downloads Shoto, all of the photos on their phone are automatically organised into albums and backed-up in the cloud. Shoto looks at the user’s phonebook and the geotags on their photos and matches these albums with those from friends that were also present in the same location at the same time.
For example, if a group of friends all download Shoto, they will instantly have access to each other’s photos from an event they all attended together. However, this would only be the case if all of the people in the group had the other members saved in their phonebook.
If the user wants to share a photo album with someone who was not there – for example, an aunt who couldn't make it to her niece's wedding – Shoto allows the user to send an album with a note. However, when the album is shared, only the photos taken by the sender will show up.
“Shoto works out which of your real friends are with you, and automatically brings together your and their photos into a single set of smart albums, so that you can enjoy memories without having to nag, be nagged and without looking at your photos in a piecemeal manner.” says Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder and 'chief wizard' at Shoto.
“We are entering a world of new dimensions and context; private is the new social, people want to have intimate conversations about real memories with their real friends. Shoto does exactly this – no manual process, no setup, just unparalleled ease and control.”
Users can control what others see by selecting “me,” “friends there,” or “world” using an simple circle gesture. This can be set at an app, album or photo level and control is instant, meaning that as the privacy setting are changed, photos appear or disappear from other people's phones.
The app includes machine-learning algorithms that build up an understanding of the user based on their historical photo-taking behaviour. Duggal has big plans to build on this intelligence to offer new services such as restaurant recommendations as the app develops.
Shoto was launched today at the Dublin Web Summit and is now available, for free, in the Apple App Store and via Google Play.

Source : The Telegraph

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