Can Dual Screen Smartphones Be A Standard In The Future?

With the dual screen smartphone Yota 3 now official, it raises the question that are dual screen smartphones a technology that can become staple in every smartphone in a few years’ time or are they a novelty made solely for the purpose of a marketing gimmick. Let’s have a look at the tech to find out what the future holds for the dual screen smartphones.

The official announcement of Yota 3 in China sparked a sudden interest in the market for dual screen smartphones, so much so that Samsung’s Project Valley took the center stage. Let’s get one thing out of the way, Yota 3 is not the first dual screen smartphone out there but it definitely is a phone that one can see themselves using as maybe a daily driver. There are smartphone manufacturers out there who are experimenting with the design and implementation of having two screens one smartphone and while it most of these phones are looked upon as a concept, a show of technical know-how, flexing the creative muscle by critics across the world, it has yielded some spectacular ideas to incorporate more than one screen to add functionality to a device. The LG V10 showcased one interesting use of having a secondary screen on top of your main screen which was always on to display notifications, time and app shortcuts. Added functionality is always welcomed and LG’s adaption of a secondary screen did exactly that for an already great smartphone and set an example for other manufacturers to incorporate in a pragmatic way.

The other really ambitious projects on dual screen smartphones take things to a little more impractical way. Foldable smartphones with a hinge isn’t practical, period. You don’t want to carry around a phone that opens and closes like a book and has a huge hinge in between. It causes a loss of screen real estate and quite a precious one at that. Samsung’s Project Valley does a much better job of incorporating a foldable display to make it look like a dual screen phone without the loss of precious screen real estate.

Speaking of the feasibility of smartphones with dual screen, imagine having a phone that is even more fragile, scratch-able, crack-able than the smartphone you currently own. This is just an opinion obviously, but cell phones as of today trade strength and durability for style and glass body. Elegance comes at the cost of durability and imagine a phone with two of the screens, you struggle to keep safe the one of.

Dual screen smartphones will be a cool thing to use if it did not come at a cost of durability. Surely, this will be solved in the future as technology progresses but for the majority of the market a dual screen smartphone will simply be unfeasible as of now. The designs have too many drawbacks, considering the overall landscape of all the designs of such smartphones. Either a hinge on your phone and make your phone not only unnaturally thick if not heavy. Foldable smartphones will always have the risk of breaking and damaging the internals of the phone along with it. Foldable smartphones also have to sacrifice battery life and camera quality to have the ability to have two screens thus ruining an overall experience that a smartphone in 2017 should deliver.

The future surely holds high hopes for the dual screen smartphone technology. With more advanced building and assembly methods, improved components, all this combined will lead to a point where dual screen smartphones will be a thing that are not only a novelty but also feasible. No loss of durability for elegance or the other way round.

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