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e-ink isn't suitable for anything that moves, so it's only going to be good for a really basic phone + contacts + text messaging device. Android seems like mas
by dfrey 14y ago
e-ink isn't suitable for anything that moves, so it's only going to be good for a really basic phone + contacts + text messaging device. Android seems like massive overkill and a waste of battery for those relatively simple tasks. I think there is still demand for a high quality phone that is light on features and inexpensive.
- bryanlarsen 14y agoOverkill, yes. However, it's probably also cheaper than going with anything else. It might have cost them $1 more in hardware to go with 512MB of RAM rather than 256MB but they probably saved $10 in licensing fees. Yes, 99% of Android apps will be useless, but 1% of a very large number is still a large number. As for battery, virtually all of it goes into the display and the radio. The CPU is sleeping most of the time, so the OS chosen would have very little impact on that. "I think there is still demand for a high quality phone that is light on features and inexpensive." Sorry, not going to happen. In a modern phone, features are a lot cheaper to add than quality.