14 DAY TRIAL // The YotaPhone 2 is an atypical smartphone that arrives with a secondary E-ink display. The device has recently started gathering funds on Indiegogo, and the team behind it says that backers of the project should expect to see the first units roll out in August.
But while the American crowd still needs to get used to the face of the YotaPhone 2, the Russian startup is already plotting to bring not one, but two successors to the device out into the sunshine.
Expect more YotaPhones in the upcoming months
According to a new report coming out of Techno Buffalo, Yota’s Managing Director for the Americas himself has confirmed that the company is working on a “next-gen product line up,” which will be made up of the YotaPhone 3 and YotaPhone 2c.
Naturally, we should expect the new YotaPhone 3 to arrive with more capable hardware. The current device is offered with a 5-inch AMOLED display with full HD (1080p) resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3, as well as a secondary 4.7-inch always-on grayscale display with qHD (540 x 960 pixels) resolution.
Maybe with the YotaPhone 3, the Russian company will offer a QHD screen and an improved E-ink display.
The YotaPhone 2 takes advantage of a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 330 graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM, but the upcoming version will probably benefit from a Snapdragon 810 or a Snapdragon 615 at least, fitted with at least 3GB of RAM.
As for the YotaPhone 2c, we’re probably dealing with a version designed to maintain some of the more advanced features of the YotaPhone 2, while selling for a more affordable price tag. The naming of the device immediately makes us think of Apple’s iPhone 5c model, which launched as a more “wallet-friendly” alternative in 2013.
Yota hopes the YotaPhone 2 will be a success
Wondering when you’re going to see the two new YotaPhones out and about? The company plans to wait and see how well its current YotaPhone 2 will fare and how many units it will be able to ship.
Yota also says that carriers in the US are keen to pick up their phones, which might help them with marketing and grabbing consumers’ interest too.