Oh, thanks!

The more I think about it, the more it does appeal to me. ABout the only surfing I do on my phone is Reddit, otherwise I just use it for texting, music, navigation, and weather.

I prefer OLED devices.

Oh that's great to hear- I'm a designer & have a bunch of large Wacom devices & pens already. An A3 or A4 Wacom E-ink tablet would be the dream imho

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I'm the same way with migraines. do you have any treatments?

Or my wife can just keep using her <$100 e-ink kindle for reading at night in bed (where e-ink matters the most) and then use her iPhone for every other thing. I don't see a point in this.

Give me a baller camera and e-ink display for a week long battery, yes please. I only ever do texts and spotify these days.

Hi, I have one of these Chinese e-ink android tablets (Boyue Like book). Google etc all works on these devices including email, drive etc. The great thing about them is their ability to be writing pads, as the screens provide much more friction. Plenty of them come with Wacom screens, so you can use a whole host of pens with them.

Some people have same complaints about recent generations of Apple products. But at a high level both are leaders in their respective domains.

If this thing can take an sd card and has a decent dac then it’s good enough for me since all I use my phone for is music

E paper it says, its my mistake instead of e ink.

Megapixel count doesn't mean much for quality these days. Yes, both this phone and an iPhone 11 have similar MP count. The pictures will look miles apart though. Just don't get your hopes up.

13 megapixels is actually not bad. All the recent iPhones except for the last Pro models shoot 12 megapixel images and I think Androids are a mixed bag but a lot also shoot around 12.

People using these phones are not going to be using many "apps".

You are not the intended target market so your arguments aren't making much sense.

Someone above said it was great for it

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I have been saying they should have a combined e-ink option on phones for years. I hope this is the beginning of the introduction of this broadly across all brands. I would like to use it to read and the quality is superior. Now we need convenience, too.

Yeah I was looking at that Wikipedia page too. I was looking at the summary part at the top where it say’s the display is e-paper and specifies the tech is memory lcd.

I might just be confused here, cause I can’t find anything on the difference between memory lcd and memory in pixel lcd.

I also remember when it seemed like the tech had died off completely after pebble went bust. And I didn’t realize there was anything similar that’s still on the market until I started looking at garmin watches last summer.

Idk if the tech is actually the same. But it has all the key characteristics I was looking for: minimal battery impact, reflects sunlight so it’s easy to see in the day, relatively fast refresh rate, and a colour screen (even if the colours are a little washed out).

I have a Fossil Hybrid that does this. Uses E-ink as the screen but conventional hands for the time. Using the buttons the screen changes for various menu items. Sync's via bluetooth to my phone to receive notifications etc: /r/FossilHybrids

I have a vivoactive music 3. It has color eink too, and looks pretty solid. The newer ones have better screens and animations I guess so I’m not sure if that line still uses that or not.

They're MIP, the Fenix is too. They're not e-ink though and don't have the same drawbacks that e-ink displays do. MIP displays are still LCD.

Not trying to be pedantic, I think MIP is pretty dope actually.

Yotaphone 1,2 and 3. Mostly sold into China and Russia but has since gone bust. I had the Yota 2, a novel concept that I could get used to, but it didn't keep up with the development of other phones.

I mean that's cool but it should be half the price. There are somewhat okay-ish, usable phones for 100€, and I can get an e-reader for 40€

Except Apple is still thought of as premium, but Tesla? Less and less so by the day.

I remember someone making a phone with an LCD on one side and e-ink on the other years ago. The idea was you could send content to the e-ink screen at will to save battery. Walking somewhere? Send a picture of the map. To do list? Send it over. Instructions to follow? On the back. Really wanted that to take off 😔