Lilbits: Bigme’s HiBreak E Ink phone (without the phone), India’s mix & match laptop refurbishers, and 104 percent tariffs on Chinese imports

A number of things happened after the Trump administration announced a set of global tariffs last week. Global stock markets have tanked. Some device makers have temporarily paused sales of certain devices or delayed plans to start taking orders of others. And while some countries that have been hit hard by tariffs are trying to arrange meetings with the Trump administration to negotiate […]

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The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard)

The Minimal Phone is a modern phone with a retro aesthetic. Instead of a big color display that covers the whole device, it has a small 4.3 inch black and white E Ink display and a physical QWERTY keyboard that offers tactile feedback when you type.

First introduced last year, the phone’s developers raised over $600,000 through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and now the company has […]

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Bigme HiBreak Pro smartphone has a 6.13 inch E Ink display and Dimensity 1080 processor

The Bigme HiBreak Pro is something of a cross between a smartphone and an eBook reader. It has a 6.13 inch, 824 x 1648 pixel black and white E Ink display with 300 pixels per inch, making the device a sort of pocket-sized eReader sort of like the Onyx BOOX Palma series. But unlike the Palma, the HiBreak Pro is a full-fledged smartphone.

Not only does it run Android, but it features support for 4G and 5G cellular networks. The Bigme HiBreak Pro should be available for purchase soon, and customers who want to “pre-order” can pay $5 now to get $30 off the $439 retail price.

Bigme has launched a number of eBook reader and E Ink tablets in recent years, and earlier in 2024 the company launched the original Bigme HiBreak smartphone which is available with a choice of color or greyscale E Ink displays.

The new HiBreak Pro has a bigger, higher-resolution display, a faster processor, more memory and storage, a bigger battery, faster charging, and a higher-resolution rear camera, among other things. It also runs a newer version of Android.

Bigme has also added support for adjustable color temperature to the front light, allowing you to choose from warm or cool light tones to increase or decrease the amount of blue light that shines on the screen. But so far the company has only introduced a greyscale version of the new phone: there’s no color display option.

It’s also unclear from the product page whether the HiBreak Pro has a microSD card reader or not: the original HiBreak supports removable cards up to 1TB. But with twice as much built-in storage, that may not be a dealbreaker.

While you can use the 20MP rear camera and 5MP front cameras to shoot photos, record videos, or hop on video calls, I still doubt you’ll want to do too many of those things on a phone with a black and white E Ink display. But you can use the rear camera as a sort of document scanner – the HiBreak Photo can use optical character recognition to convert pictures to editable documents. There’s also a text to speech feature for listening to eBooks or other text.

Although not all Android apps play well with E Ink displays, Bigme says the phone ships with the Google Play Store pre-installed. That means you should be able to install and try most Android apps. And Bigme says its “SSS-level super refresh mode” leads to faster screen refresh rates, smoother scrolling and “minimal ghosting” when compared with other E Ink displays.

via ITHome

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Mudita Kompakt is a minimalist phone with an E Ink display and modern features like wireless charging and a fingerprint reader (crowdfunding)

The Mudita Kompact is a mobile phone designed for people who don’t want a portable distraction device in their pockets or handbags. Instead of a large color display it has a small black and white E Ink screen. And while it features an Android-based operating system, the Mudita Kompact ships without any Google apps or services: instead it comes with just a handful of simple apps for making […]

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Bigme Hibreak E Ink phone is now available for $219 and up

The Bigme HiBreak is a budget smartphone with that ships with at least 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, ships with an Android based operating system, and global 4G LTE network bands.

It’s also one of only a small number of smartphones to feature an E Ink display, and it’s one of the first with optional support for an E Ink Kaleido color display. First announced earlier this month, the Bigme […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=169281

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Bigme HiBreak smartphones coming soon with E Ink color and grayscale display options

Chinese device maker Bigme has released several eReaders and E Ink tablets over the past few years, and now the company is setting its sights on smartphones.
The upcoming Bigme HiBreak line of smartphones are basically mid-range Android phones with E Ink displays and support for 4G cellular networks. There will be at least four models available at […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=169098

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The Minimal Phone hits Indiegogo for $350 and up (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard)

The Minimal Phone is an Android phone with a screen that bucks almost every trend in the modern smartphone space. Instead of a big screen with vibrant colors and a high refresh rate it has a small black and white E Ink display positioned above a physical keyboard, making the phone look a bit like a modern BlackBerry.
First unveiled in January, […]

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The makers of the Mudita Pure minimalist phone with an E Ink display and number pad are planning to launch two new products, starting with a Mudita Kompakt phone featuring de-Googled Android, and eventually a Mudita Pure 2. https://goodereader.com/blog/smartphones/mudita-is-going-to-be-releasing-the-kompakt-and-pure-2 #Mudita #MuditaPure #MuditaKompakt #EInkPhone #Smartphones #MuditaPure2

The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android (crowdfunding)

Most modern smartphones have big, colorful touchscreen displays and lack physical keyboards. The Minimal Phone bucks both trends. It takes two very niche features and combines them into a single device: it’s an Android-powered smartphone with a square E Ink display and a QWERTY keyboard.
You can’t actually buy this phone yet, but the […]

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Hisense A9 E Ink smartphone now available with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage

https://liliputing.com/hisense-a9-e-ink-smartphone-now-available-with-up-to-8gb-of-ram-and-256gb-of-storage/

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Hisense Hi Reader Pro is an Android smartphone with a 6.1 inch E Ink display

https://liliputing.com/hisense-hi-reader-pro-is-an-android-smartphone-with-a-6-1-inch-e-ink-display/

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