Yotaphone soon with the Kindle app? - CNETFrance

Yotaphone, the smartphone with two screens (one e-ink) was much about him there just a year, at CES 2013. Since then, the smartphone was launched, and the company would be in contact with Amazon about the Kindle app.

The Yotaphone has been launched there are only a few days. Highly anticipated and highly observed since the CES 2013 , it offers a promising concept with two different screens (LCD and electronic ink) on each side of the unit.

If the first tests of the device are rather inconclusive despite some criticism of the specifications / price ratio, this first model is a coup for a company previously unknown, and whose greatest challenge is to attract application developers. If they seize the concept, consumers will surely follow, and vice versa.

If successful, the margin evolution of this device is huge. One can imagine in future releases 5-inch screens offer higher resolutions, improved performance, touch E-Ink, illuminated display and why not the same color. But for this, the brand must first pass a first course and convince users first, inventing new uses and attracting players likely to make the product even more attractive.

Yotaphone: a potential reading light

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With a 4.3-inch electronic ink, Yotaphone arises of course instantly as a reading light … because the extra 4.3 inch screen remains Anyway a bit small for this purpose for a long time.

Its screen is not as defined market ( 640 x 360 pixels) , and playback application not being given not dream (Bookmate), the key to Yotaphone is to provide users with a rich ecosystem with some reassuring names.

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For those who know a bit of digital reading applications, the arrival of FBReader via update Yotaphone is a very first step positive in the sense that, even if the player is not known to the general public. The application is indeed a reading solution, which allows to read files ePub, fb2, mobi, html, txt and many other formats. PDF is also supported in the Beta version of FBReader, and should be offered in a future update. But on a 4.3 inch screen, it will have little interest.

But Yotaphone, another partnership that is being discussed would have a much greater impact: the one on Amazon and on the Kindle app. Discussions are underway with the giant ebook to propose its application for Yotaphone. Impossible for the moment more, the term “discussions” is unclear. It therefore is not to say that the Kindle app is looming Yotaphone, but a partnership does not seem excluded.

If there is still a long way to go to Yotaphone to succeed his bet, the arrival of players like Amazon in the application store brand would in any case in the right direction . If developers begin to grasp the concept, then everything will become possible for the Russian brand.

div Florent Taillandier

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