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YotaPhone 2

Snapdragon 801, 2 GB RAM, stock Lollipop, 5" 1080p front display and qHD e-paper b&w rear display.

Rear display can run its unique widgets - or just anything, including a mirror of the main.

Make phone calls, do texts, email, read ebooks on the rear cover with the main screen off. The brighter it is out, the easier it is to see. Runs for days that way on a single charge.

Available in black or white, coming to the US via an Indiegogo project, out normally in 20+ other countries this year.

Tell me that this isn't way cool and you don't want it on your next phone. :D
 
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It comes with KK.
Costs 599 euro (675-ish usd).
Or am I looking at the wrong thing?
 

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Kaat72 said:
Will the 2GB be enough?
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WifelyMon is on an HTC One M8, Snapdragon 801, 2 GB RAM, stock Lollipop, 5" 1080p display, and it runs like a champ.

Take away HTC Sense, add the second display processor - I don't anticipate it being a dog at all. Especially with the second display being lower resolution, lower frame rate, b&w, and e-ink.
 
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It looks cool. Doesn't apply to my use case though. I rarely read books and battery life rarely affects me because I'm always near a charger.

My next phone will possibly be the Nexus 3.
 
That phone looks awesome. I like that the screen is 5". The screen sizes are getting ridiculous. I don't need to carry a tablet around in my pocket.
 
In the last 18 months or so, I don't think new phones have really grown in size that much, 5 to 5.5 seems to be the usual now, not as much as the growth from 3 or 4 inches in previous years. The current fashion seems to be keep the same size, but reduce bezel sizes, e.g. Samsung S6 Edge doesn't have a bezel at all, except top and bottom. Going as thin as possible seems to be a fad with some manufacturers, at the expense of battery capacity.
http://hd.oppo.com/2015/r7yy/index.html
The new Oppo R7, for release on 21st in Beijing.

I want a useful smart-phone with a good battery life, and NOT a fish plate.
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I find phones around 5.5 to be ok, and have no problems pocketing or handling them. But that really is the largest I'd want to go myself.

I actually saw a OnePlus One, the first time in the wild today. Although the person using it was apparently a phone dealer, handing out these flyers in the street outside of a middle school.
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Oppo has more than 20 different phones in their current range for the domestic market, including a few that will only really fully work with China Mobile. And only about 2 or 3 that properly have the US bands in them, no CDMA. And to actually buy one, the official distributors for North America, Oppo Style are in Hong Kong.
 
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mikedt said:
I find phones around 5.5 to be ok, and have no problems pocketing or handling them. But that really is the largest I'd want to go myself.

I actually saw a OnePlus One, the first time in the wild today. Although the person using it was apparently a phone dealer, handing out these flyers in the street outside of a middle school.
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Oppo has more than 20 different phones in their current range for the domestic market, including a few that will only really fully work with China Mobile. And only about 2 or 3 that properly have the US bands in them, no CDMA. And to actually buy one, the official distributors for North America, Oppo Style are in Hong Kong.
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I guess I have small pockets lol.
It seems like the thinness wars have died down over here. I see more ads bragging about battery life these days. I think the phone makers are finally taking the battery life complaints seriously. (though I wish they weren't sealing them in) Maybe tastes are different in Asia. We used to see the thinnest phone touted all the time, not so much anymore.
 
EarlyMon said:
Huawei has gone nuts over thin and now you can't just plug in headphones.

No, that huge jack is far too big.

Use an adapter to plug in (more crap to lug around) or just use Bluetooth (something else to charge).

I don't know anyone that appeals to but I don't know everyone.
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I prefer my phones to have a little heft to them because they're easier for me to carry. I'm also used to it since I use an extended battery.
 
I use an Otterbox, so my phone is thicker than they are coming out of the package.

I almost did the oversized battery thing for my E4GT... I may do it with my S4: there's enough stretch in the Otterbox to fit an oversize battery, with a little finagling.
 
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