There is a category of smartphones, which in the Western countries a little out of date, while in Asia it is still very popular. We are talking about a clamshell smartphone. While the whole market is filled with touch-sensitive smartphones, clamshell smartphones look very unusual and original.

Just a couple of years ago clamshell was quiet ordinary format for smartphones, but today they have been superseded by modern touchscreen smartphones, that have a large display on the entire front panel.

It seems that Chinese company Gionee believes in the success of clamshell smartphones. Gionee will present new clamshell smartphone Gionee W909 on March 29 .

It is worth noting that the clamshell smartphone Gionee W909 will not concede on productivity to its conventional competitors. Gionee W909 will have fingerprint reader, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal flash memory, 16-megapixel main camera.

Some time ago, the smart phone was seen in the materials sites Geekbench and TENAA. Thus, we have an idea about the technical characteristics of the smartphone, which include 8-core processor MediaTek Helio P10 and graphics accelerator ARM Mali-T860 MP2 with a clock frequency of 700 MHz, working together with 4GB of RAM, and 16-megapixel main camera mentioned above.

The new smartphone Gionee W909 will receive two 4.2-inch displays with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels each and 5-megapixel front camera.,

The physical size of the smartphone will be 124.6 x 62.5 x 16.4 mm and weigh is 210 gram. It is also important that smartphone runs on Google Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.

Gionee tries to revive the former glory of the clamshell smartphones. Chinese company hopes that the new product will be a “chicken lays golden eggs” and will be popular among users.

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Xiaomi could soon formalize the arrival of a flip phone in the mobile market. The product is listed on the website of the TENAA.

 While recent smartphones are becoming larger, more and more purposes, and increasingly powerful, some manufacturers are trying to offer completely different products. This is for example the case of Samsung or LG, offering clamshell smartphones, almost like it was in there about ten years. Unlike today they are more efficient, but really aimed at a niche market.

 This time it is a Chinese manufacturer who wishes to address this segment. Indeed, a clamshell smartphone Xiaomi signed recently appeared on the website of the TENAA, a telecommunications certification body. According to the information given, the terminal features a 3.97-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, an internal storage space of 16 GB with the possibility of add a microSD card, a back camera of 8 megapixels and a front camera of 2 megapixels. The product would be installed Android 4.4.4 KitKat and would be compatible 4G. Only information regarding RAM’s a bit strange since it is indicated that the mobile has 8GB, something that seems absolutely improbable.

 According to the visuals provided by TENAA the Xiaomi smartphone seems to have two screens, thus suggesting that it can be used both as a modern smartphone and as a flip phone. The mobile is not in finesse, since its dimensions are 121.4 × 63.2 × 18.3 mm and weighs 190 grams. The product appears at all much more interesting than the LG Wine Smart, which is certainly part of our disappointments of the year, and which ignores a second screen to quickly view notifications received.

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