The Minimal Phone with E-Ink Display

Yeah, it's pretty bad:

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Yes I don't understand why so few manufacturers wdo partnerships with projects such as lineageos or /e/os from the very start. It seems to me there is a large intersection of people who want an alternative device format AND degoogled phone.

I am very interested with this device but only if I can have a firmware without the usual google + manufacturer's crap.

There were alternatives to Android. Without Android, we'd be running Windows CE, Windows 11, or WebOS. I suspect many of us here will have been running smartphones before they were called smartphones. When I was in high-school, my phones ran Windows. HTC Typhoon, HTC Magician (with UK operator "Orange" SPV branding). Then when I left for a job, I was on the HTC TyTN 2. They were Windows CE based "Windows Mobile".