First Dual Screen Smartphone

 

This here is the first dual screen smartphone. And it’s running Android. I feel cooler just for having a phone that runs the same operating system as that thing. When I first saw it, I thought it was a new Nintendo DS design. The Droid was lauded for having the slide out keyboard, well the Echo has a slide out second screen. In the closed position it’s just like a standard touchscreen smartphone and can make calls and surf the web and such, but the awesome thing here is that you can slide the top back and make a single big touchscreen, with a slight split since they are two separate screens. It can function as one contiguous screen, displaying large images or videos or interwebs, oooooor you can use some of it’s highly modified apps to use the two screens separately. Like have the web browser in the top window and the mail app in the bottom window. And if you don’t like the idea of having one large area (maybe you’re not a tablet fan) that odd looking hinge on the back also lets it lock into a bent laptop style position. That would be amazing for typing an email or writing an article on the bottom screen while looking at your source content on the upright screen

Anyway, both of the screens are 3.5 inch WVGA, Hi Res, as if any phone these days isn’t. When they activate their wonder twin powers to work together, they take the form of a tablet screen 4.7 inches diagonally. I really wish these companies would give us the length and width of a screen along with the diagonal. A² + B² = 4.7. Great. In any case, it also includes the Wi-Fi hotspot utility for linking up to 5 other devices to the internet, a 5MP camera, the 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a small 1 jigabyte of built in memory but an included 8 gig microSD card. The slot can also support up to 32 gigs of microSD card as usual.

Source from http://theandroidblog.com/