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Unfortunately, T-Mobile USA no longer works on it, the band it used was refarmed to 5G and the Hisense A9 is 4G only. Now I use it wifi only. I hear the latest Bigme Hibreak eink phone still gets some USA LTE reception though.
The TLDR of eink phones: great for reading and text, terrible for videos and scrolling
Here’s a video of me using various popular android apps on an eink Hisense A9 smartphone. https://youtu.be/dvO9ScTdwz8
TLDR: Great for reading/text/messaging/hacker news, terrible for video and scrolling.
E ink phone Android app showcase | Hisense A9 review https://youtu.be/dvO9ScTdwz8
Great for reading and text. Terrible for videos and scrolling. Here’s a video of me using one:
E ink phone Android app showcase | Hisense A9 review https://youtu.be/dvO9ScTdwz8
Hisense made color e-ink smartphones but they didn't make a color model of their latest Hisense A9.
Antennapod and pocket casts implementations of those features aren't good enough.