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Hisense Hi Reader Pro: Android smartphone with a 6.1 inch E Ink display

35 points by teleforce 4y ago

sand500 4y ago
For me, one of the biggest drawback of eink is poor comparability with scrolling content, e.g. reading HN. Ideally there would be an app with page based navigation.
- ahoya 4y ago
  It’s not bad on modern eink. For example you can even watch YouTube on this device comfortable
- smnrg 4y ago
  EinkBro is a browser which by default uses pagination. https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro
- victormustar 4y ago
  That's also what could interest me with this product, using this technical limitation to avoid spending too much time scrolling through content feeds.
- rchaud 4y ago
  on my Boox Note e-ink tablet, the OS comes with PgUp/PgDn soft keys for this reason. Very useful addition.
smnrg 4y ago
All I'd want is this phone (can still use Venmo, Uber, and other modern platforms) plus a stock ROM and relocking bootloader. One could use adb and RethinkDNS to freeze or firewall connections and some processes, but it's a lot of work and a poor experience.
- ignoramous 4y ago
  rdns dev here Do you mean to say using firewall apps in general is cumbersome or just rdns in particular? If so, I'm interested in your inputs on what's not right, and if you have any inputs on how it can be improved? Thanks (:
  - smnrg 4y ago
    rdns is an awesome app, I am unsure why it’s not more widespread or more often mentioned here. You do great work, truly. The only regret with rdns is that it’s either using that, or a VPN—from how I understand it. The cumbersome part is the entire process of adb+whatever solution to mitigate an opaque firmware calling home everywhere across the oceans at any given time. I like some BOOX devices, but I find them very stressful to trust, and rdns helps.
    - ignoramous 4y ago
      > The only regret with rdns is that it’s either using that, or a VPN—from how I understand it. This is an unforunate limitation imposed by Android (for good reasons I must add). We're fixing up our network stack to shoulder in WireGuard; should land in a month or two. With that, one would be able to upstream connections to any WireGuard endpoint: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/52 https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/52 > rdns is an awesome app, I am unsure why it’s not more widespread Thanks for your kind words. There may be other reasons, but the surprising one is (going from what we see on other forums and emails that we get), folks are reluctant to trust a security / privacy product that's made by Indians.
xrd 4y ago
Looking forward to the HN post in a few years where someone has ported Doom to it.
- yellowapple 4y ago
  It runs Android and allows sideloading, so in a sense someone has already ported Doom to it.
rchaud 4y ago
I'd be interested to know how well color images and PDFs display on monochrome screen. I have an e-ink tablet and while text is fine, images lack contrast and details can be hard to make out.

35 points by teleforce 4y ago

For me, one of the biggest drawback of eink is poor comparability with scrolling content, e.g. reading HN. Ideally there would be an app with page based navigation.

ahoya 4y ago
It’s not bad on modern eink. For example you can even watch YouTube on this device comfortable
smnrg 4y ago
EinkBro is a browser which by default uses pagination. https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro
victormustar 4y ago
That's also what could interest me with this product, using this technical limitation to avoid spending too much time scrolling through content feeds.
rchaud 4y ago
on my Boox Note e-ink tablet, the OS comes with PgUp/PgDn soft keys for this reason. Very useful addition.

smnrg 4y ago

All I'd want is this phone (can still use Venmo, Uber, and other modern platforms) plus a stock ROM and relocking bootloader. One could use adb and RethinkDNS to freeze or firewall connections and some processes, but it's a lot of work and a poor experience.

ignoramous 4y ago
rdns dev here Do you mean to say using firewall apps in general is cumbersome or just rdns in particular? If so, I'm interested in your inputs on what's not right, and if you have any inputs on how it can be improved? Thanks (:
- smnrg 4y ago
  rdns is an awesome app, I am unsure why it’s not more widespread or more often mentioned here. You do great work, truly. The only regret with rdns is that it’s either using that, or a VPN—from how I understand it. The cumbersome part is the entire process of adb+whatever solution to mitigate an opaque firmware calling home everywhere across the oceans at any given time. I like some BOOX devices, but I find them very stressful to trust, and rdns helps.
  - ignoramous 4y ago
    > The only regret with rdns is that it’s either using that, or a VPN—from how I understand it. This is an unforunate limitation imposed by Android (for good reasons I must add). We're fixing up our network stack to shoulder in WireGuard; should land in a month or two. With that, one would be able to upstream connections to any WireGuard endpoint: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/52 https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/52 > rdns is an awesome app, I am unsure why it’s not more widespread Thanks for your kind words. There may be other reasons, but the surprising one is (going from what we see on other forums and emails that we get), folks are reluctant to trust a security / privacy product that's made by Indians.

xrd 4y ago

Looking forward to the HN post in a few years where someone has ported Doom to it.

yellowapple 4y ago
It runs Android and allows sideloading, so in a sense someone has already ported Doom to it.

rchaud 4y ago

I'd be interested to know how well color images and PDFs display on monochrome screen. I have an e-ink tablet and while text is fine, images lack contrast and details can be hard to make out.