The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android
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Re: The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android
#2If it can run AnkiDroid and my dictionary apps then I'll be very interested in this phone. The only reason I even have a smartphone is so I can study on the go. A phone that can do that without nearly so much temptation to wonder onto social media and YouTube would be great.
Re: The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android
#3If I can disable the phone features, I absolutely want one! I don't carry a phone, but I carry a Moaan eink reader.
Having a physical keyboard would be ideal for the secondary use I've found for my Moaan: it's been slowly replacing my Sony Walkman as the Walkman has no advantage when paired with the Huawei Freelace Pro neckphones: it's bulkier, LCD instead of eink, and the neckphones don't support LDAC (990kbps)
If there's bluetooth support, the keyboard would let me type part of the name of the song I want to listen to directly get without having to click around, while also having the advantage of showing the results on a eink screen instead of a bright LCD (I don't like LCDs, I like them even less at night)
If there's also some Linux support to replace android (I want to run tty programs without having to use termux), I'll be buying a couple the moment it goes on sale.
What I absolutely don't want is the phone features or the Google store, but if I can reflash the firmware to remove that, I'm in.