Russian phone maker Yota Devices today announced a dual-screen Android-based phone expected to hit worldwide shelves in the second half of next year.

Single-screen phones are so 2012. Russian phone maker Yota Devices today announced a dual-screen, Android-based phone that is expected to hit worldwide shelves in the second half of next year.

Dubbed the YotaPhone, the smartphone totes a full-color LCD screen on one side and an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other.

"This will be the first time that people will be able to personalize the information they want to receive on their phones in an effortless way," Yota Devices CEO Vlad Martynov said in a statement. "You tell YotaPhone what information you want and when you want it. It becomes your personal assistant reminding you of what's important to you."

Each 4.3-inch display serves different functions and purposes: Users can use the LCD side to watch videos and play games, then flip the phone over to read a book or magazine on the electronic paper display. The YotaPhone will display important information  boarding passes, maps, tickets even when the battery dies.

The dual-screen phone will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8960 platform and the latest Google Android operating system, Yota said. It is also the first smartphone to feature Corning's 3D Gorilla Glass.

"Technology is setting the tone of our lives rather than the other way around," Martynov said. "YotaPhone takes all the best components of this great lifestyle product and amplifies them. At the same time, we address some of the ways smartphones interfere with us being truly social beings. YotaPhone is always connected, but in a smarter, less stressful way."

Yota Devices has been working on this new device for more than two years; the first model was shown in September 2010 to then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

New details about the multi-band LTE phone will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February.