The Siam 7x is an

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dual-screen

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which launched in December 2015 and was designed by Darius Allen. This phone was the first phone produced by CRBT Siam, and the first dual-screen phone to be marketed to American consumers.

History

Several manufacturers, including

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, LG and Kyocera had made attempts 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 overcame this by placing the second screen on the outside, using a black and white E Ink Corporation screen to conserve power. A similar design was created by

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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

operating system, and only as a GSM carrier phone. It allows users to insert two

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simultaneously. The phone was designed in

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, and manufactured in

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Hardware

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: MTK6735A, Quad-Core Cortex A53 * GPU: ARM MaliT760-MP3@450 MHz * Hard-drive: 1664GB * RAM: 2GB *

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: Android 5.1 *

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: 5.0" 1280 x 720 HD IPS 2.5D Furthermore the phone has a bio-metric ear print recognition system which employs the Descartes Bio-metric Helix system

Reception

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

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External links

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