Smart-gift: Putin presents Chinese leader with dual-screen YotaPhone

‘Made in China’ can be seen on many world’s products, but Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has given his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping something that he certainly does not have – a Russian-developed world’s first dual-screen smartphone.

After holding an official meeting within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing, Putin presented the president of the People’s Republic of China with a set of Russian smartphones – YotaPhone 2.

 The meeting of the two leaders was an anniversary, being the tenth Putin’s encounter with Xi Jinping since the latter took office last year, according to China’s People’s Daily newspaper.

The special edition of the smartphone includes a data protection system, developed by Russian engineers, which makes the phone “unique” in regard of safety levels, Rostec company, which has shares in YotaPhone project, said in its news release.

The Chinese leader was all smiles for the gift, which – according to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov – was updated with Russian, Chinese and APEC paraphernalia.

“Do we have partnership in this project as well?” Xi Jinping asked Putin, who replied with “Will do!”

According to Rostec, the Chinese leader became world’s first owner of the new YotaPhone 2. The official launch of the new generation of YotaPhones is scheduled for December, when the line of smartphones will go on sale in Russia. Then the phone is expected to hit European markets, with sales in China and South-East Asia expected to start in the first quarter of 2015.

RT

Maher Taki