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IF YOU EVER decide to release a smartphone, you either need to make it amazing or do something unique to get noticed.
Russian startup Yota Devices went for the latter, launching the YotaPhone in Russia, Austria, France, Spain and Germany yesterday for €499.
The phone’s unique selling point is that it has a 4.3 inch screen for each side. One is a traditional LED screen while the other is an eReader display, similar to a Kindle. Both are linked together and show the same display, but have different uses.
While the traditional LED screen is used for normal smartphone activities, the eReader screen can be used to read articles or books, save maps or images, and check notifications without having to wake up your smartphone.
This allows users to easily access info without putting a drain on the smartphone’s battery. The makers claim that in reading mode, the phone has 7 – 10 times the battery life of other smartphones.
Speaking about the distraction of smartphones, the company’s CEO Vlad Martynov said:
The typical user picks up and activates their smartphone more than 150 times a day. Why? Because users worry that messages or information they need or want are hidden behind their phone’s black screen. This is a huge distraction and can impede meaningful interaction with our friends, families and colleagues.
The startup released a demo video earlier this year, showing off what it can do.
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Information is power. These companies are now more powerful than states.
It concerns me when IBM Computers owns a company like G4S and G4S is bidding to buy Police forces in the Uk.
So what is law.?
Is law a profit making exercise.?
Is policing interested in a community or is that just naive.
Is police only interested in collected intelligence / data , issuing fines, and protecting corporate interest under the guise of health safety and well being.
Well my research to date leads me to say that the police forces of the world are only about protecting vested interests .
good news for Leitrim and Roscommon right?
This Internet is doing my head in !
Well don’t go on it then
I look forward to the day my boss can go to my google+ page and observe me live on the drone cam, stretched out in my back garden with a flagon of linden village and a bag of tayto when I am meant to be at the office.
I’m happier it is in the hands of Google and not Facebook. Google have a culture of making the world better and simpler and where possible providing products for free.
Yeah, they really have our interests at heart, god bless them.
This latest one is just what humanity has been crying out for……
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/google-patents-tiny-cameras-embedded-in-contact-lenses/
They’re watching YOU !
Google have drones!, there’s no way we’re gonna get more tax off them now.
This will help them find MH370
Google are buying up a lot of tech companys lately, I can’t wait to see what they come out with.
Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha were holding a seminar on religion. In turn they asked each other the same question. “Why are most of our people so unhappy with their lives?” They debated, and came to this conclusion. People were seeking the Holy Grail through.. Money, luxury, and affluence. However, this only gives a quick fix before a downer sets in. Then, they were each given a piece of paper on which to write where they thought the Holy Grail was hidden.
When they checked, they each had the same answer.
“The Holy Grail lays hidden inside everybody’s heart. Alas, the last place anyone looks!”
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