Symphony Teleca Corporation announced a strategic software development partnership with Yota Devices for its new YotaPhone, the first phone to integrate a full-color liquid crystal display (LCD)on one side with an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other side. Through this partnership, Symphony Teleca will provide Android platform expertise to improve power management and to optimize and enhance the overall product software architecture, especially for EPD technology integration.
The two displays, which have different functions and different purposes, are linked together to open a new world of unlimited user experiences. Users will be able to read long news articles and social networking updates and display photos, stock quotes, and boarding passes on the EPD without draining the phone’s battery or having to constantly “wake up” their smartphones. Images on the EPD can be displayed even if the battery is empty.
“YotaPhone will change the way users interact and manage information with their phones, and we need a partner who trulyunderstandsthe complexities of mobile software development. YotaPhone presents a number ofnew engineering challenges specific to multi-screen operation and optimization, including power management. After an extensive analysis, we determined that Symphony Teleca is the best software development partner based onits global leadership in Android and ability to ideate and execute quickly and inventively,” said Vlad Martynov, CEO, Yota Devices.
Sanjay Dhawan, President and CEO, Symphony Teleca has also shared his views. He said, “We are seeing a world of innovative connected experiences come to market across a number of industries today including retail, automotive, healthcare and telecom, and this is an outstanding example of ingenuity being applied to a very exciting and competitive smartphone space. We are very proud to have been selected as Yota’s product development partner for this groundbreaking smartphone and we look forward to a long and successful partnership.”
