New Russian kid on the block joins crowded market

In addition, according to Song, YotaPhone China will work closely with Chinese tech giant Lenovo, to provide after-sales customer services.

The Chinese version also includes a preinstalled package of the most popular domestic mobile applications and social apps that have been localized and adapted for the second screen, such as Ireader, WeChat and Sina Weibo.

Last November Russian president Vladimir Putin presented the Russian-designed and Chinese-manufactured YotaPhone2 to President Xi Jinping as a symbol of cooperation between Russia and China in the field of consumer electronics.

Yota Devices was founded in 2009 as part of Yota Scartel a Russian LTE provider, to develop LTE portable modems and routers.

In December 2012, the company unveiled YotaPhone, the world's first dual-screen, always-on smartphone.