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Interface and applications

A pure Android (4.4.3) is definitely an advantage, just like the small quantity of preinstalled apps. We have a soft designed to work with the e-ink display and a typical set of applications from Google.

We can pay attention to multilanguage ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries or the LitRes application (a built-in LitRes bookshop with Russian books). For viewing and editing documents we have a preinstalled OfficeSuite 8.

The e-paper part can take the role of the main display and show the Android interface (YotaMirror). Everything works slower and is displayed in shades of grey, but we can do everything that can be done on the colourful display: play games, watch movies, view photos in the gallery, take photos, use the navigation etc. Though in shades of grey and with a slow refreshing of the display it will not be comfortable.

Using the additional display by dedicated apps and widgets looks completely different. YotaHub allows to choose and to configure what will be visible on the e-paper display. We can choose two modes: YotaCover (something like a lock screen) and YotaPanel (main desktops).

In the YotaCover mode the display can have a wallpaper chosen by the user, on which notification’s icons are placed. We can use photos from the phone’s memory or from the Internet (galleries from Facebook or Instagram) that change from time to time.

The second mode of the e-paper display is YotaPanel - a set of desktops with widgets. The user has the possibility to configure individual desktops on which he or she can choose the looks of the grind on which there will be placed widgets and apps’ icons or one of default desktops on which there are placed weather information, current hour, day schedule, battery level, notifications icons etc.

For viewing the content on the e-ink display we can use the e-book reader YotaReader, which can work both on the colour as well as the black and white display. It allows to change the size of the text and viewing it on a white or a black background. The second app of this kind is YotaRSS. It allows to check the latest news from selected channels, but first we will need to log in to Feedly.

Games are assigned for the e-paper display as well. We can run them from the colourful AMOLED display, but the game will be moved to the black and white display. We have preinstalled four titles: Chess, Draughts, Sudoku and 2048.

Source: GSMchoice.com

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