This E-ink Smartphone has a Crazy Camera...

"with pixels perpetually permanently parked at their prior points of photonic perception". This guy is a poet.

The fact that the display was able to play the video at anything close to a watch-able framerate is astounding.

I want a regular (edit: up to date and from a major manufacturer) smartphone with an e-ink back panel - shopping lists without turning on the phone, yes!

I really appreciate these companies still doing out of the ordinary, innovative stuff.

That toothbrush is everywhere. Get away from me toothbrush!

An E-ink smartphone won't be widely popular, but I think E-ink could be used as a secondary display on the back of a regular smartphone to display notifications, which would be like Nothing's Glyph Interface but more useful.

It's $469,99 btw, i think the price is quite interesting for a product like this. And they seem to also be focussing on Hi-Fi, including a pretty nice DAC chip. They also offer E-ink Smartphones starting at around ~$330

An e-ink display is a perfect application for a folding phone. You have a low power draw display on the outside and a big beautiful screen in the inside when you need it.

8:34 "would you rock an e-ink smartphone when Apple invents it" 😂😂

Fun fact: that headphone Jack is attached to a real good DAC, something Hisense includes on a lot of their devices. The built-in speaker is also very loud and clear. So listening to music on the A9 is great.

E-ink screen AND a headphone jack?! Take my money!

I must have it. The first smartphone release that has made me smile in a long time

Man that frame scratch always brings me chills on my spine

I think thr biggest factor limiting advancement in e-ink screens is the fact that they are patented and solely controlled by a single company (E-ink holdings) with many patents to prevent competition; but then startups and industry can't really play with the screens to make too many improvements, just license them for use.

E-ink would be cool as a secondary display on the back of a phone or a folding phone. Would make it super easy to find your phone in the dimly link situations and get important information as a glance - date/time, notifications, etc.

3:53 that yay was so unexpected 💀 i gasped cuz I weared headphones lo

I guess I'm too old to remember the days when any mobile phone used to have a week-long battery life.

e-ink is an underrated technology

I think a longer period of usage review is more informative than destroying the phone at the end. Plus more respectful

That actually looks amazing as a secondary phone, eg a work phone! Put away the colourful distractobox during the day yet still have the eInk phone to respond to messages from colleagues or get paged if the system you maintains goes down yet still be able to log into all the systems you need to investigate the problem while you're finding a place to set up your laptop. Even has a camera + headphone jack for Zoom! I wish you'd mentioned the price because if it was low enough to be a secondary work phone, I'd honestly be tempted