• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Ultimately, the Minimal Phone is not made for the user who wants to completely disconnect but reduce the scope of their phone’s capabilities. In that sense, I recommend it as a secondary device or as a daily carry you keep on your person, with a smartphone anchored at home or in the office.

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      Interesting. Thanks for sharing an little excerpt for curious folks passing through :)

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    Every time I use my ereader I just luxuriate in the eink screen, warts and all. The very moment I can get an extenal eink display for my computer that is both of reasonable resolution and also not exorbitantly expensive, I’m doing it. I wouldn’t want it as a primary monitor but I’d love love love it as a secondary.

    I definitely want an eink phone, but I doubt I’ll have the bucks to be an early adopter, which is fine.

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      After a bit of warming up, eInk screens are now basically what I hoped the future would bring us, reading from them is just a joy. Add the fact that I can choose my own fonts and fontsizes for books and the future is NOW, hahaha!

      Very interested where this eInk phone path will lead!

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      Dragging a window at 0.5 fps seems extremy difficult

      Even finding the mouse cursor could take 10 seconds.

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    there are likely better options for minimizing and not sucking up so much content on one device, but interesting, if not dated, form factor.

    nanophone and jelly phones are 2 decent examples but both are small form factor.

    I can’t name a really good e-ink phone, but this doesn’t have the battery life I’d expect in that arena…

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      That Jelly Phone is mighty tempting.

      Dual SIM, SD card reader, headphone jack, and a back fingerprint reader.

      I can just use this thing as a music player/back up phone.

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        My partner has one - and still loves it while on the fourth of a few models (over seven years). I can barely use it – my fingers are too large. The camera isn’t great and the white balance is just incorrect.

        The battery life is understandably atrocious. But – it is TINY.

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        strangely they seem to have not (at least yet) focus on battery length with this release. I’d highly assume it’s a priority to reap the benefits of the shit display.