About a month after launching the new HiSense A7 5G smartphone with a 6.7 inch grayscale E Ink display, Hisense has added a color model to the lineup. The new Hisense A7CC has the same basic features as its black and white sibling, including an octa-core processor, support for 5G networks, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of […]
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Lilbits: A color E Ink phone, Intel’s new CEO, and more CES product launches
Chinese electronics company Hisense is one of the only companies in recent years to sell smartphones with E Ink displays. Until recently, that meant phones with black and white screens, but now that color E Ink is a thing, Hisense unveiled a color model last year, and a YouTuber has posted a new unboxing and […]
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More details about E Ink’s new color displays for eReaders (and maybe smartphones)
Several companies recently announced plans to release eReaders with color E Ink displays this year, and at least one smartphone with a color E Ink screen is set to go on sale in China next week. But so far we haven’t seen many details about the technology used in those color displays. Now we know […]
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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 […]
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Light Phone 2 is a simple 4G phone with an E Ink display (crowdfunding)
Smartphones are basically mobile computers and communication devices that we use for everything from GPS navigation to watching movies and playing games, with a lot of social media thrown in for good measure. The Light Phone 2… isn’t one of those jack-of-all-trades devices. It’s a phone that’s designed first and foremost for making phone calls […]
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Hisense A2 Pro dual screen phone with E Ink display launches (in China)
The Yota 3 isn’t the only new dual-screen phone launching in China that features an E Ink display on one side and a color screen on the other. The Hisense A2 Pro is a similar dual screen system, similar specs, and one more similarity: it’s unlikely you’ll be able to buy either phone in the […]
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Yota 3 smartphone with E Ink and color displays leaked
One of the few companies to release a smartphone with an E Ink display (and a full color screen on the other side of the phone) is preparing to launch version number three. We already knew that the YotaPhone 3 (or Yota3) would likely have a 5.5 inch full HD AMOLED display on one side […]
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8S Mobile shows off a dual-screen (E Ink and LCD) phone with premium specs
Over the past few years we’ve seen a few different dual-screen phones with color displays on one side and E Ink screens on the other. But a Chinese manufacturer called Shenzhen Hexiang Electronics (or 8SMobile) is showing off the most powerful model I’ve seen so far. The 4G LTE 8S105 smartphone features a 5.2 inch, […]
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Oukitel U6: Another dual-screen phone with E Ink display
Yota devices might not be the only company selling dual-screen smartphones with a color screen on one side and an E Ink display on the other for much longer. Recently Chinese smartphone maker Umi teased an upcoming dual-screen phone. Now it looks like China’s Oukitel plans to launch a dual-screen phone as well. According to […]