Siam 7X


The Siam 7x is an Android dual-screen smartphone designed by Darius Allen which launched in December 2015. This phone was the first phone produced by CRBT Siam, and the first dual-screen phones to be marketed to American consumers.

History

Several manufacturers, including Samsung, LG and Kyocera had made attempted as recently as 2010 to create a dual-screen smartphone. However, they proved unsuccessful, as their second screens were located within a difficult-to -access clam-shell design The Siam 7x, however, placed the second screen on the outside, using a black and white E Ink Corporation screen to conserve power. A similar design was created by Yotaphone but its parent company targeted this phone to European, Asian and Middle-Eastern markets. The Siam 7x was the first dual-screen phone designed for the North American market.
The phone was available only with the Android operating system, and only as a GSM carrier phone/. It also allows a user to insert two SIM cards simultaneously. The phone was designed in Dallas, and manufactured in Shenzhen, China.

Hardware

The Siam 7x operates on Android 5.1. The screen on the front is a5.0" 1280x720 HD IPS 2.5D display, multi-touch while the screen on the reverse side is a 4.7" QHD E-ink paper 2.5D display, multi-touch. It runs on a MTK6735A, Quad-Core，Cortex A53 CPU and utilizes an ARM MaliT760-MP3@450 MHz GPU. It has a hard-drive size of 16 GB with 2 GB of RAM. The amount of hard-drive space can be expanded to 64 GB with a TF Card. It has a biometric earprint recognition system which employs the Descartes Biometrix Helix system.

Reception

The Siam 7x dual-screen smartphone was released to the public on November 27, 2015. 10,000 of these phones were produced for its release date, targeting a relatively small sales volume.