A chinese language firm known as Bigme just lately launched a few Android-powered E Ink telephones, one with a colour display screen and one with a black and white display screen. They began promoting the colour model on Amazon final month.
Now the BW model of the Bigme Hibreak telephone can be accessible on Amazon. At $269, it’s solely $10 lower than the colour model, which is sort of stunning, nevertheless it’s going to have a brighter display screen with out the added colour filter layer, and the colour decision is admittedly low on the colour mannequin at solely 92 ppi, so this BW model goes to have a greater display screen for studying.
It has a 5.84″ E Ink display screen with a decision of 1440 x 720, which equates to 275 ppi. There’s additionally a frontlight, however with out temperature management, and it has Bigme’s model of “tremendous refresh expertise” for smoother display screen refreshing and fewer ghosting.
The software program relies on Android 11 and Google Play is onboard for putting in Android apps. There’s additionally an AI assistant that can be utilized for plenty of issues.
The specs look like precisely the identical because the mannequin with a colour show—the display screen appears to be the one distinction.
The Bigme Hibreak telephone is rather a lot just like the Onyx Boox Palma that got here out final 12 months and is one in every of Onyx’s hottest fashions, besides the Palma doesn’t truly operate as a telephone—it simply seems to be like one. For $10 much less the Bigme model provides a SIM card slot, so it seems to be like a very good various to the Palma.
There’s a fast video demo of the colour model in motion on this earlier put up: New Bigme Hibreak Cellphone Launched with Coloration E Ink and Android.
Bigme Hibreak BW Specs
- 5.84″ colour E Ink display screen.
- 275 ppi BW, 92 ppi colour.
- Frontlight.
- 2.3GHz octa-core CPU.
- 128GB inner storage.
- 6GB RAM.
- Reminiscence card slot (helps as much as 1TB).
- Cameras: 5MP entrance, 13MP rear.
- Android 11 OS with Google Play.
- USB-C port.
- Speaker, mic, GPS, rotation sensor.
- 3300mAh battery.
- Twin band WiFi.
- Bluetooth 5.0.
- LTE 4G.
- Weight: 170 grams.
- Dimensions: 76.8 x 154 x 8.6mm.
- Worth: $269.
