[YotaPhone] Thisco13:
Hi everyone,

While doing some Google searches to try and find more information and reviews I came upon this thread. The Yotaphone 2 interests me a lot and I am considering buying one sometime in the near future. However, I have some questions, mainly with regards to the e-ink screen. A vast majority of reviewers, both in text as well as video reviews only focus on a few obvious applications. They mirror the app drawer and swipe around a bit, show the yotapanels and then demo an eBook and one of the built-in games. That is all fine but it doesn't teach me a lot with regards to the way in which that e-ink screen adds value to the way I would intend to use it.

Seeing as various people here have the phone and are so kind as to answer questions of prospective buyers I thought I would add my questions and hope that one (or a few of you) could find the time to reply :)

-The e-ink screen is obviously excellent for reading eBooks although I find it incredible that hardly anyone in a review has held the device in landscape mode which seems to me to be far more enjoyable and comparable to the actual width of a pocket novel. On a related reading note: could someone here try the Comixology app? I would love to see what comic reading looks like. There is an option in the Comixology app to read from panel to panel (rather than from page to page for which the screen would be to small). I am guessing that each panel would refresh the entire e-ink screen so maybe this would take a toll on the battery (although it would mean reading digital comics and mangas in sunlight would be possible!)

-I was wondering if it would be possible to use a Bluetooth keyboard and a word processor on the e-ink screen as a kind of "write anywhere even in bright daylight" device. I guess with a word processor the e-ink screen would only refresh the part where you are typing. My idea to use an external Bluetooth keyboard would do away with the lag. Well, the lag would still be there but if you know what you are doing on your keyboard you would just need to wait now and again for it to catch up with what you are typing :)

-There is one short video on YouTube from someone using Google Maps on the e-ink screen while driving. Is this a good idea? Doesn't the app need to constantly refresh the entire screen while you are driving or would it really use less battery to use Google Maps or other navigation software on the e-ink screen?

-I often use my phone to look stuff up and read articles. I know there is a "reader mode" in Chrome on Android which strips away a lot of the fluff on a webpage and leaves a clean article to read (there are other services which do the same but staying in the browser is handier). Could anyone try it out while mirrored on the e-ink screen? It would be great to read web pages in this way!

-Anyone have the chance to mirror Spotify on the e-ink screen? It would only refresh after every song so it should work well, no? Related question: Is the music widget in the yotapanels "smart" enough to know that its controls for skipping etc should be for Spotify and not the music player for locally stored songs when it is Spotify that is being used to play music?

-I am sure I am not the only one who doesn't really get excited about playing Sudoku ;) Therefore, can anyone test an emulator? I was thinking a slow paced RPG or strategy game on a GameBoy/GameBoyAdvance emulator would actually work well without consuming a lot of battery power. Update: just before posting this I read a brief comment in another thread about apps which work well on the e-ink screen and the GBC.emu app was mentioned so I guess that it would work well.

-Evernote is one of my all-time favorite apps. I use it for everything from quick reminders to extensive archiving to elaborate daily work planning. I was thinking about how the e-ink screen could constantly display a note (with a client's briefing, a list of todo's, ...) and not consume any energy while doing it. Can someone confirm this is the case? Even a quick shopping list with tick boxes would be fantastic to have on the always on screen! Hell, that could be a fantastic widget on a Yotapanel in the future :)

Apologies for the long post and thanks for anyone willing to take me up on my list of questions. These are all things I am considering doing with the YotaPhone 2, but I first need to know they are at all possible. I appreciate the examples which YotaPhone give themselves but frankly I travel perhaps twice a year so the whole "screenshot of my boarding pass"-idea is far less necessary than the stuff I mentioned above :D