Android 14 running on an E ink screen with cellular connectivity and a QWERTY keyboard? Life is gone but a dream for supporters of Minimal phonethat started shipping units to its loyal supporters almost a year after viral as possible vaporware. Good timing, it is considered that we are all on the market for a device to help us log off more than the next four years. Ink is hardly the perfect solution to being a sequel online, but it can be frustrating enough to put the device and log off the Internet altogether.
The minimal company's minimal phone has a 4.3-inch touch e ink screen with a backlit black and white display. It is a device intended for text over graphics, even if it can handle them as well. An entire QWERTY keyboard that has been hunted back on the days of indifferent Bush Jr. The software runs Android behind the scenes so you can install apps from the Google Play Store. The launcher is curated to show only the needs, including the email, your crypto wallet, Google Maps, and even Rideshare, a choice shown in promotional marketing. The phone supports wireless payments such as Google Play and GPS. There is a 3,000 mAh battery to empower everyone and even a 16-mp camera to get the pictures, even if you need to check them on another display.
Here's where the ink devices start to show their limitations: the processor within the minimal phone is a MediaTek Helio G99, a chip used on the sub- $ 200 device sold overseas. It doesn't flammable quickly, especially not what you are used to on your smartphone. The other caveat is that E ink is not fast. It lags and has a long refresh of times, especially in the apps you will use for the responsive, high-resolution screen device. I already have an experience of raising the Onyx booox go 6. I still use it to read comics and books at night, but after preparing myself psychologically for its screen with a massive slow refreshing rate.
The minimal phone promises a “uninterrupted experience” experience, with marketing that emphasizes the lifestyle. In this case, limiting your exposure to apps and titles that brings even minimal body responses Ay The purpose and the way to cut off the stress meter of your wear. But you don't have to spend $ 400- $ 500 on a phone doing that. The E ink tablet I mentioned starts at about $ 150, and it's a more approachable price point than an entire smartphone focused on the cause. Android also offers a host of minimalist launchers who have achieved the same effect by dialing the Home screen to only a number of important apps and simple colors.
