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Thursday, January 01, 2015

#SMARTPHONES: "Russian Smartphone Sports Two Screens, but Is It Spying on Its User Too" #EETimes #Spying #NSA

The Russian smartphone called the YotaPhone will go on sale in the U.S. later in 2015. Its best feature is that it features an E-Ink e-reader on the back that extends its battery life to 100 hours. But will people buy it? We already know that the U.S. National Security Agency is listening to our phone calls for terrorist talk, but what might the Russian's have hidden inside their smartphone? Probably nothing, but it makes you wonder: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


The backside is always on showing time, weather, emails and messages arrived drawing almost zero power.

The backside also doubles as an e-reader which (if you turn-off the front color screen) extends the battery life to 100 hours.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES