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I was excited as long as I assumed this would be E-Ink.

by aw3c2 8y ago

Yoric 8y ago
I would definitely look at a low-powered, reduced features e-ink not-so-smart phone.
- azilnik 8y ago
  This looks like it might be up your alley. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design
  - Yoric 8y ago
    Thanks!
  - stevewillows 8y ago
    Its crazy. The Light2 is almost perfect, but its almost too minimal. I still want basics like an ereader, timers, and email. Its a shame that eink hasn't really hit the mobile market yet.
Theodores 8y ago
It is odd how that has not happened in the mobile phone form factor or even as part of an add on case. I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery. Website accessibility is possibly an important part of this, if everyone wrote proper responsive websites that met accessibility standards to look good on mobile then these should read fine on an E-ink display. All text messaging apps should look fine too. The trick to making the device work is probably the camera, if you could easily connect the screen of another phone to it then you could do selfies and what not. A convenient device to facilitate that, maybe top up the battery of the main phone and work independently of the main phone on a duplicate/tied in SIM, that could work.
- def_true_false 8y ago
  It's been done. There is the Russian Yota phone and some similar Chinese phones; IIRC there is also a case for iPhones.
- jjrh 8y ago
  > I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery. There is, besides aliexpress which has a huge selection (including nokia knockoffs) most carriers have a couple super budget non smart phones.

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I was excited as long as I assumed this would be E-Ink.

by aw3c2 8y ago

I was excited as long as I assumed this would be E-Ink.

Yoric 8y ago
I would definitely look at a low-powered, reduced features e-ink not-so-smart phone.
- azilnik 8y ago
  This looks like it might be up your alley. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design
  - Yoric 8y ago
    Thanks!
  - stevewillows 8y ago
    Its crazy. The Light2 is almost perfect, but its almost too minimal. I still want basics like an ereader, timers, and email. Its a shame that eink hasn't really hit the mobile market yet.
Theodores 8y ago
It is odd how that has not happened in the mobile phone form factor or even as part of an add on case. I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery. Website accessibility is possibly an important part of this, if everyone wrote proper responsive websites that met accessibility standards to look good on mobile then these should read fine on an E-ink display. All text messaging apps should look fine too. The trick to making the device work is probably the camera, if you could easily connect the screen of another phone to it then you could do selfies and what not. A convenient device to facilitate that, maybe top up the battery of the main phone and work independently of the main phone on a duplicate/tied in SIM, that could work.
- def_true_false 8y ago
  It's been done. There is the Russian Yota phone and some similar Chinese phones; IIRC there is also a case for iPhones.
- jjrh 8y ago
  > I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery. There is, besides aliexpress which has a huge selection (including nokia knockoffs) most carriers have a couple super budget non smart phones.