The Russian manufacturer of smartphones Yota Devices has found a partner to enter the Chinese market, as reported by Russian business daily Kommersant. The new partner, Potevio, is one of the largest local distributors of mobile electronics. Over the next 18 months, Yota Devices expects to supply some 1 million units of its YotaPhone 2 …
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A 24-year-old woman has died in Moscow after reportedly being electrocuted by a smartphone charger after her iPhone 4 fell into the bathtub. Yevgenia Sviridenko, originally from Omsk, was discovered by her flatmate as she lay floating in the bathtub on Monday evening, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported Tuesday. The flatmate, who was not identified in the report, said she had become concerned by how much time Sviridenko …
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Smartphones are mostly similar, barring differences in performance, attention to detail and features that these days can seem pretty minor, especially on paper. YotaPhone is a different kettle of fish, a device from a Russian company that boasts a fairly standard smartphone display on one side, but also comes complete with a power-saving e-ink screen on the …
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The destiny of an electronic monument in memory of Steve Jobs in St. Petersburg has attracted public attention this week after its owner, a Russian company named “West-European Financial Union” (ZEFS in Russian), withdrew it in an expression of its radical anti-US and anti-gay stance. The monument had been placed last year in the yard of the St. …
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Microsoft has suspended plans to provide tablets to Russian schools under a deal expected to benefit a textbook publisher headed by Kremlin ally Arkady Rotenberg, citing “concerns” over Western sanctions, a news report said. According to an agreement signed in late September, Microsoft would “provide free of charge, to [publisher] Prosveshcheniye, the same type of technical assistance that [it] provides at no cost to thousands of schools and publishers worldwide,” Microsoft said …
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Telum, the developer of the Ranberry family of mobile products in Russia, has developed technology that enables users to quickly deploy a 4G/LTE wireless broadband network for voice, video and data transmission. The project, called Ranberry B1000, incorporates products by Telum and by Intel. Telum is a resident of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under …
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According to the Yandex.Market rankings, the three smartphone brands leading the way in Russia include Apple, Samsung, and Sony. The iPhone 5S currently holds first place in the Yandex.Market smartphone ratings. The iPhone 5S has only fallen second to Samsung Galaxy once since the iPhone 5S was released in Russia last fall. The iPhone 5S …
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Canada may soon be home to another smartphone maker when Moscow-based Yota Devices relocates its headquarters to Toronto or Waterloo by the end of this year, its chief executive says. Yota Devices, whose flagship unit is an Android-based smartphone with screens on both sides, is aiming to take advantage of the talent pool in Canada …
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S-Group Capital Management, an affiliate of the fund of funds RVC, has teamed up with Skolkovo’s nuclear technology cluster to inject 40 million rubles (approximately $1.2 million) in Bisant, a Moscow-based high tech antenna manufacturer. A resident company of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under construction on the outskirts of Moscow, Bisant describes its micro antenna devices …
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While Apple’s products have become a must-have in the Russian political elite, the Russian government no longer uses iPads, according to Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov. Instead, ministers are required to use Samsung tablets in cabinet meetings and government committees. Nikiforov, who earlier in the week suggested that the USA’s commitment to eavesdropping on foreign governments …
Nokia’s Android smartphone, Nokia X, announced at the recent Mobile World Congress, comes to the Russian and Belarusian markets equipped with the essential search functionality provided by Yandex. The Finnish company’s first in the X-series of phones premieres today on these markets with the Yandex.Search app already preinstalled and the Yandex search engine as a built-in …
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YotaPhone, Russia’s first Android-powered dual-screen (LCD and EPD) smartphone supporting GSM, 3G, and LTE standards, is now available in the UK for £419. More European markets are coming this month, including Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia, TechCrunch reported last week. In an exchange with the Financial Times, Yota Devices CEO Vlad Martynov said that the international …
