Really like the one-handed phone form factor, but the Box Palma being WiFi only was a deal breaker for me.
Instead I got a Hisense A5 from eBay for ~$130 and after rooting, debloating, and installing E-ink optimized versions of Open source android apps it’s a perfect companion for my Boox Nova Air C. With KOReader syncing across devices.
An e-ink phone is an interesting idea! I’m guessing the battery life is great.
There’s one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.
That looks dope. Can you tell us more about the overall experience?
I used to root and unlock bootloaders all the time is it relatively easy for this device does it work on the color version as well? I really want a eink display phone how do you like it?
Highly phone dependent. Some phones have an official process, others have hacks, many others have fuck all.
Browsing Lemmy from one of these devices is something that I never thought about.
So cool ! If you could share a video on how it feels to use lemmy on that, that’s be great!
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TIL that e-ink display smartphones exist.
@lightsecond @flamingod https://goodereader.com/blog/ has covered a lot of these! Heck they cover everything. Well worth a subscribe to their YouTube channel or rss of their blog.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check them out.
Very cool. Does it have any kind of night or dark mode?
