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hey everybody this is justin Valcourt from cnet here at CES 2013 I'm giving you a first look of the yotaphone it's not Yoda it's yoga with the T now this is a really interesting device it's crazy and I'm not really sure where to start the concept is that you've got a high-end Android phone on the front but when you flip it around you've got an e-ink display so you've got sort of a secondary screen on the back that will show all sorts of information it could be an interactive app it could simply be mirrored contents from the front of the screen that shows up on the back why would you want this the one main reason you would want it is for battery savings so one use case is that if the battery is running really low on your phone and you still want a basic map and you don't need it to be crystal clear on full living color then you can actually transfer it from the front to the back you take your fingers you pull down it vibrates and then after a while it will load up and you'll see your map on the back the second way you can use this is through these interactive apps now there are a few right here that have been pre-installed but wait yotaphone and the company wants to do is actually provide an SDK for developers to create their own applications for the back so you've got interactive or you've got mirror those are the two different modes 4.3 inch LCD screen on the front and this is HD quality and then on the back you also have a 4.3 inch screen the camera placement is really interesting is on the bottom back over here this is a 12 megapixel camera and there's a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera that does capture 720p HD video and the camera on the back of course does capture and replay 1080p HD video now this is a prototype device so this might not be what it looks like at the very end it is quite thick but one thing you might see is that is also curved so what the company has done is they've actually contracted with horning the makers of barilla class and they got Gorilla Glass 3 on it's a curved glass so that is a first the SIM card and the power button are sort of combined into one so that's supposed to reduce the number of holes and buttons on the screen navigation is also a little bit different here sort of an a webos style you've got a swiping gesture area at the bottom you don't have capacitive touch buttons so you can basically swipe halfway across the screen to go back you can swipe all the way to go home and you can present a long press to pull up your recents same thing with navigation on the back there's a gesture area at the very bottom or a couple different controls you can do to navigate this ain't display on the back you can say the heart of the phone is the processor there's a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon processor on this but that could change because this is just one of the first prototypes they're going to be a few more iterations very high capacity on here flash storage 32 or 64 gigabyte versions will be available also two gigabytes of RAM but there won't be any external storage so that's why it comes in two capacities phone also has NFC and Yoda the parent company comes from a background of LTE routers modems so the phone will definitely come with LTE when can you see this that's a good question they are going to aim for the back half of 2013 will be released in Russia first and will come to other markets after that this is definitely one of the most interesting devices I've seen at CES it isn't the first time at launch it was actually launched in december but this is the first time that we're getting our hands on it and one of the first times that it's really been publicly shown in the US as well i'm jessica ball court for CNN catch all the CES news at cnet com