Active Use Time != Call Time.

The number of hours you could send SMS and play Snake was virtually limitless.

Ahhh it's a shame it doesn't have the double display like some SW

Sounds great. I'll finally stop wasting time watching YouTube on my phone.

I see what you did there.

So as an example you give me a phone that had…. Less than 24 hours of active use time…

This may be my next phone. Thanks for the ;TLDR.

I still miss my Pebble watch from time to time

Yes, it's like regular smartphone. Actually it's dual SIM but one slot is shared with microSD card, which, I think, is not something uncommon. So I can have either two sims or sim and SD card.

Boox tablets are fantastic. My Poke 3 is exactly what I was looking for (although I had to miss on the SD card slot sadly!)

> Why do I need a phone whose battery that lasts that long?

you don't remember/didn't use Nokia 3110/3310, did you?

And the entire Android OS

This isnt aimed at the kindle reader. Its aimed at the minimalist and outdoors people who need to go days/weeks without having to charge their phone.

You absolutely were. The 3310 had 22hrs of calltime and about a month on standby

I assure you its not. I have used a Hisense B&W E-Ink phone and the high refresh rate mode on it allows video playback at around 25-30fps.

Its not an e-reader that happens to be a phone. Its a full Android device that happens to have a really power efficient screen.

Theres a specific high refresh mode that you can enable at anytime to use apps that require scrolling like maps and video.

My friend who charges his e-ink phone twice a month is laughing maniacally.

I really did consider all these tablet options before I just pivoted to getting a Galaxy S7FE as a writing tablet. The problem I had was justifying the price for a single purpose device that could not be repurposed to do anything else. The S7FE was $400, comes with a stylus, lasts about 3 days on a charge if taking notes, or about 11hrs of Youtube/Netflix otherwise. And since it is a full Android device with Samsung Sync, every note i take on it is instantly available on my phone too.

My friend has one of the Hisense B&W E-Ink phones. It lasts about 2 weeks on a single charge for him. Its insane.

Thats ... not a measure of quality. There are $200 phones that just throw in a 12MP sensor and big players who put R&D into color science and post processing of a 12MP image on a $1000 phone.

It's a pity this display tech has not significantly advanced in terms of refresh rate. Perhaps it never will, given the nature of the display. I don't mean for like playing videos, but more for the usability of the interface and scrolling pages etc.,

For real. 13mp is a resolution of (or similar to) 3264x2448. Exactly what freakin' purpose do you put your photos to that this is just too small for you? This resolution is completely impractical and overkill for any images looked at on a mobile device or posted to social media or even just for your personal archive for looking at later.

This is to say nothing of the fact that the image quality captured with gigantic sensors of 13, 15 or 20mp can be utterly crap where there is no detail added by those pixels regardless, so you just get huge files with an actual discernible detail level of 8 or 10mp.

Most Garmin watches use E-ink but they are not traditional smartwatches.

Whats the battery life?

It works reasonably well. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the page turn animation or header, though. About 15-20% of the screen is wasted