Russian tech Company Yandex discloses first cell phone

MOSCOW: Russian Internet goliath Yandex on Dec 5 propelled its first ever cell phone, finishing half a month of tension for tech fans over the exceedingly foreseen dispatch.

The organization behind the most broadly utilized web index in Russia and the ex-Soviet district has as of late broadened to guard its piece of the overall industry against Google, making prominent telephone applications to arrange taxicabs and takeaway sustenance.

The new cell phone, called Yandex.Phone, will go marked down on Dec 6 in Russia and furthermore on the web. It will cost 17,990 rubles (RM1,119) and will work with the Android framework.

While the structure was made by Yandex, the telephone is made in China.

"We assembled Yandex.Phone to offer Russian clients a cell phone that is outfitted with all the restricted apparatuses that assistance clients better explore their day by day schedules," Yandex official Fyodor Yezhov was cited as saying in a public statement.

"Inside the cell phone, the Yandex applications are introduced as an environment with Alice at its middle. It's not important to open individual applications to explain an errand – simply ask Alice."

The telephone flags a noteworthy new stage in Yandex's advancement and is intended to equal mammoths like Apple, Samsung and Huawei.

Yandex began during the 1990s as a web index like Google yet has since ventured into each edge of the Russian web with applications that Russians utilize each day.

The cell phone's dispatch comes after the organization a month ago baffled tech fans by gathering columnists to what ended up being an introduction not of the cell phone but rather of its brilliant speaker.

The Yandex cell phone isn't the first to be produced by a Russian organization.

In 2013 the YotaPhone, structured in Russia yet in addition made in China, was propelled with the trick of having screens on the two sides. Anyway it neglected to set the market land.

This time the organization behind the cell phone has considerably more clout. It is recorded on the New York Stock Exchange and is eminent for its imaginative energy.

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