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

9 pointsby zenbobover 1 year ago

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csdvrxover 1 year ago
If I can disable the phone features, I absolutely want one! I don&#x27;t carry a phone, but I carry a Moaan eink reader.<p>Having a physical keyboard would be ideal for the secondary use I&#x27;ve found for my Moaan: it&#x27;s been slowly replacing my Sony Walkman as the Walkman has no advantage when paired with the Huawei Freelace Pro neckphones: it&#x27;s bulkier, LCD instead of eink, and the neckphones don&#x27;t support LDAC (990kbps)<p>If there&#x27;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&#x27;t like LCDs, I like them even less at night)<p>If there&#x27;s also some Linux support to replace android (I want to run tty programs without having to use termux), I&#x27;ll be buying a couple the moment it goes on sale.<p>What I absolutely don&#x27;t want is the phone features or the Google store, but if I can reflash the firmware to remove that, I&#x27;m in.
SuperNinKenDoover 1 year ago
If it can run AnkiDroid and my dictionary apps then I&#x27;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.