This looks cool but… I’m nervous about pre-ordering from a company I’ve never heard of. Anyone know anything about these guys?

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    1 year ago

    If they actually end up making a product you’ll just be able to buy it. Wouldn’t preorder. Concept is cute though, I LOVE eink displays.

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    I recently saw a review of a similar phone, it’s pretty crazy cool really!

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=4wf3ebnqzn0

    Sucks that dude ends up breaking everything he ever reviews after testing it, but that’s like part of his thing.

    The display really is a live realtime display. Although it only displays in monochrome, the camera actually records in full color, once you upload the photos and video to another platform anyways.

    Being that it’s a live active e-ink display, it’ll gradually start showing ‘ghosting’ of sorts, but it has a dedicated full screen refresh button to clear any ghosting artifacts.

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        Huh, wasn’t aware there were other phones with similar technology already out there, my bad. I’ve edited my comment to mention it’s a similar phone, not the same though.

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          Personally I think they’re a bit of a gimmick anyway. The only real appeal of an e-ink display is that it makes everything you might do on a phone a worse experience, dissuading you from doing those things. Just get a slide phone like they had in the naughties to handle your calls and text, carry a notepad for everything else. Accomplishes the same thing for cheaper

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              You’ve heard of ereaders, right? Better yet, you’ve heard of books, right? Why anyone would want to read a book in the form factor of a phone I have no idea. And even still, some slide phone plus an ereader plus a pen and pad would still be cheaper than either the Hisense A9 or the Minimalist phone. You’re paying a premium to combine functionality while making some of those functions worse

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                Gosh, do I feel silly! You’re right, nobody reads on the pocket-sized device they carry around all the time.

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                  If you read books on your phone then by all means feel free to continue. It’s a suboptimal way of reading though and I’m judging the fuck out of you for it.