YotaPhone hands-on review: full marks for innovation Other more gimmicky functions of the dual screen include taking photos using the YotaPhone's 13-Megapixel camera - the e-ink display shows an image of a camera and instructs you to smile - and dynamic location-based wallpapers that display the user's location, the time and the weather, and can be personalised with pictures and other widgets. The traditional Android part of the phone is fairly unremarkable. Yota has customised Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 to use the same swipe and tap gestures as the e-ink display, so you swipe to the right to go to the home screen and to the left to return to the previous screen. Aside from that, it offers a familiar vanilla Android experience. With dimensions of 133.6x67x9.99mm and a weight of 146g, the YotaPhone sits nicely in the hand and feels fairly solid - it is the first smartphone to use Corning's Gorilla 3 shaped glass and has a special chassis housing YotaPhone's six antennas on the outer rim. Although 9.99mm is fairly thick, the e-ink side of the phone curves inwards at the top to only 7.9mm, giving the impression of a thinner device. While the specs are not top-of-the-range - the processor is only 1.7GHz and the battery 1800mAh - the energy efficiency of the phone partially compensates for this. Martynov claims that only mobile gamers will really notice the difference between this and high-end Android devices from Samsung and HTC. Yota's Yotafone was launched in Moscow today The 4.3-inch LCD screen is bright and attractive with a resolution of 720x1280, putting it on a par with Motorola's recently launched Moto G. It also has decent viewing angles. All in all, the YotaPhone is a valiant first attempt at an entirely new breed of smartphone, from a Russian start-up company that only started developing the device two and a half years ago. It may take some time for the company to build up an ecosystem of apps that really takes advantages of the dual-screen capabilities - Amazon's Kindle, for example, would be a useful addition - and the company may need to improve the phone's gesture control in the next iteration. However, for innovation alone, this device gets full marks.