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Its ‘Mini’ incarnation—or something like that—also dominated on my e-ink Nook Simple Touch by the virtue of working the best on a weak machine with a screen of
by aasasd 8y ago
Its ‘Mini’ incarnation—or something like that—also dominated on my e-ink Nook Simple Touch by the virtue of working the best on a weak machine with a screen of limited capabilities (grayscale, infrared touchscreen aka no multitouch), under Android 2.1. And I was using it until about three years ago.
IIRC Opera Mini also worked on that, but not much else.
Guess it's time for me to mourn again that there are no e-ink devices with normal modern Android—the screen is noticeably easier on the eyes, even with the optional ‘ambient’ backlight (emitted from the sides, diffused through the glass). And the screen consumes little power, so the battery can be way smaller: Nook is lighter than my current phone despite having a bigger screen.
As for the refresh rate, Nook's screen can be coerced into doing some surprising stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbD753xE-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbD753xE-U
- soapdog 8y agoYou may enjoy onyx boox devices from https://onyxboox.com/ https://onyxboox.com/, they are all running Android and AFAIK you can install stuff through google play.
- aasasd 8y agoI know about them, but last I checked, they too were part of the picture I'm lamenting: they ran Android 4.2 at best, as of last year.
- wwweston 8y agoI loved using my Kindle DX to browse various sites and even check email over 3G back in the day. No https support, though, and as that was increasingly required (quite correctly) and as the JS-all-the-things philosophy infected the web world (less correctly) it became broadly unusable. I'd love to have an e-ink device with similar (or better) capability again.
- aasasd 8y agoOn Nook, I also installed an old version of Pocket (from when it was ‘Read It Later’), which still synchronized with the service quite alright. So in addition to books, I also had my hoarding nest of Wikipedia and blog articles whenever I was waiting in a line. With the 6" screen, it was pretty much the web in a paperback format.