Most modern smartphones have big, colorful touchscreen displays and lack physical keyboards. The Minimal Phone bucks both trends. It takes two very niche features and combines them into a single device: it’s an Android-powered smartphone with a square E Ink display and a QWERTY keyboard. You can’t actually buy this phone yet, but the developer says […]
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Hisense A9 E Ink smartphone now available with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage
The Hisense A9 is an Android smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor and a 6.1 inch, 1648 x 824 pixel black and white E Ink display. It’s the latest in a line of E Ink phones released by the Chinese electronics company in recent years. When Hisense launched the A9 in China last year it […]
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Hisense Hi Reader Pro is an Android smartphone with a 6.1 inch E Ink display
The Hisense Hi Reader Pro is a smartphone with mid-range specs including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. Up for pre-order in China for less than $250, there’s one thing that makes this phone different from most others though: its display. Instead of an LCD or AMOLED screen, the […]
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Hisense A7 CC Color E Ink smartphone now available globally for $510
The Hisense A7 CC is an Android smartphone with a 6.7 inch display, an octa-core processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage and support for 5G wireless networks. It’s also one of the first smartphones to feature a color E Ink display. First launched in China last month, where the phone sells for about $370, […]
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Hisense A7 5G smartphone has a 6.7 inch E Ink display, sells for $305 (in China)
Chinese electronics company Hisense has been producing a line of smartphones with E Ink displays for the last few years, making it one of the only companies to do so. Now Hisense has launched the first E Ink phone that I’m aware of to support 5G connectivity. The Hisense A7 is basically what you’d get […]
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Hisense launches A5 smartphones with color E Ink displays in China for under $300
Chinese electronic company Hisense is introducing a new line of smartphones featuring color E Ink displays. The Hisense A5C is a budge Android phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 processor, 4GB of RAM. But its standout feature is the phone’s 5.84 inch color E Ink display. The Hisense A5CÂ goes on sale in China August […]
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$220 Hisense A5 E Ink smartphone is probably a better eReader than a phone
Most modern smartphones feature color LCD or OLED displays. But every now and then a phone maker decides to buck the trend and put out a handset with an E Ink display. They’re not particularly common. They’re not usually all that cheap. And the E Ink display is sometimes paired with a color display on […]
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Hisense smartphone features a color E Ink display
Chinese electronics maker Hisense has a habit of making smartphones with E Ink displays — but they’re typically dual-screen phones with a color screen on one side and a black and white ePaper display on the other. Now the company is showing off a new phone with a color E Ink display. That means it […]
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Kingrow K1 E Ink smartphone hits Indiegogo for $299 and up
The Kingrow K1 probably isn’t the best smartphone for mobile gaming, watching videos, or framing the perfect photo… because you’d probably want a color display for any of those things, and the Kingrow K1 doesn’t have one. What it does have is an E Ink display that’s easy to see in direct sunlight and which doesn’t […]
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Hisense is still making dual screen smartphones (color + E Ink)
Chinese electronics company Hisense is getting ready to launch a new smartphone with two screens: a full color display on the front and a black and white E Ink screen on the back. There aren’t many details about the upcoming smartphone, which should be formally announced next week. But the company has posted an image showing […]