Looks cools, BUT...
- People call you on your phone number, so you have to swap your sim card from smart-phone to this every time you want to "go light". Also phone-book sync, etc.
- e-ink displays are incredibly fragile.
- People call you on your phone number, so you have to swap your sim card from smart-phone to this every time you want to "go light". Also phone-book sync, etc.
- e-ink displays are incredibly fragile.
If I were spending $US300 on a phone, it ought to be my daily driver.
So I would assume this is for people who, if they do want to access social media on iOS/Android then they do it from the comfort of a large screen device such as a wifi-only iPad, tethering to their 4G dumbphone.
Oh and there's nothing preventing an e-ink device from using a cloud addressbook.
I think the display on my kindle is about as solid as a cellphone display...I carry mine around in a cargo pocket and it regularly gets slammed into furniture.
I mean, i do break them, but I break cellphones, too, and I treat my kindles rather harder than I treat my cellphone.
hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.
The handover (between cells) had some issues when driving, so sometimes calls dropped when you crossed cell boundaries. In retrsospect it seemed like a race condition in the logic that notes where to route an ongoing conversation to in the event of a cell switch, combined with both phones fighting over which cell this number is in.
The nice thing about the old phone/radio was the classic green backlit monochrome dotmatrix text display.