Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-11-10
Chinese president Xi Jinping has become the owner of the world's first dual-screen smartphone courtesy of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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| Vladimir Putin gives Xi Jinping a new Yotaphone 2. (Internet photo) |
Chinese president Xi Jinping has become the owner of the world's first dual-screen smartphone courtesy of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Xi was
personally presented with a YotaPhone 2, developed by Russia's state-owned tech
company Rostec, by Putin, who had arrived in Beijing on Sunday ahead of the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leadership summit on Nov. 10-11.
Apart from
a traditional LCD screen on one side, the back of the YotaPhone 2 features a
4.7-inch electronic paper display (EPD) for reading e-books and playing simple
games like Sudoku or chess. If the main screen runs out of battery, the EPD
side can act as a backup.
The special
edition of the smartphone Xi received has reportedly been installed with
special Russian, Chinese and APEC paraphernalia. It also includes a special
data protection system developed by Russian engineers, which is said to make
the phone "unique" in regard of safety levels.
Xi was
reportedly all smiles when he received the gift, and later even asked Putin,
"Do we have partnership in this project as well?" to which Putin
responded, "Will do!"
The
official launch of the YotaPhone 2, which runs on Google's Android operating
system, is scheduled for December. The phone will then hit European markets
before arriving in China and South-East Asia in the first quarter of 2015.
Apart from
playing with his new phone, Xi also managed to squeeze in the execution of 17
bilateral cooperation agreements with Putin that traverse areas such as natural
gas, oil, nuclear power, transportation, aerospace and finance.
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