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A company called Turing Robotics a subdivision of Turing Space Industries is taking the concept of a dual screen smartphone to the next level. Turing has announced the HubblePhone, a futuristic device that it is aiming to release in 2020.
The HubblePhone, named after NASA's space telescope, has a truly strange design, and claims it can bring back the clamshell form factor that allows for dual screen touch displays.
Its hard at first to even tell this thing is supposed to be a phone it looks like a compact camcorder from a couple of years ago. Its a clamshell device with a rotating hinge, and each deck has its own software, processor, and storage. The entire surface appears to be composed of screens. The company claims it will have Hybrid Glass PMMA Over AMOLEDs that will display content.
It's got a scroll wheel on the side, a programmable button, and a hinge on one side where the second display can be swiveled opened and held in positions at various angles, including a kind of laptop mode.
Turing says the upper deck uses Android P and a FreeBSD based OS called Turing Keplerian OS, while the main deck uses Keplerian, Android P and Sailfish for the console mode.
The specs table claims this phone will run on Snapdragon 855 in each of the phones two sections. The HubblePhone will wield a 5G technology for next gen wireless networks.
It also claims to pack a 60 megapixel main camera with 15x optical zoom and a circular LED flash and four other 12 megapixel cameras in other locations. All in all, there are six cameras on the HubblePhone. There'll also be 2,800mAh and a 3,300mAh battery.
You have to wait a while for the phone to ship, since it's not supposed to arrive until the first quarter of 2020 for a staggering $2,749 (More than Rs 3 lacs in Pakistani Currency).
