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The &quot;Scroll down&quot; hint wasn&#x27;t obvious enough for me. I&#x27;d also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite some time before I actually found it.<p>(If you don&#x27;t scroll but just click on the links you just see 1 screen at a time. If you aren&#x27;t really paying attention you don&#x27;t notice that there are 2 different ones)

Looks like everyone is bitching and only talking about the scrolling issue (very common HN meta feedback). I find the use of eink screen brilliant! I hope they manage to go on the market (and in EU too!)

The scroll changes the smartphone display instead of moving down the page, and more often than not lands between transitions.<p>If you&#x27;d like to sell a phone, hire a web designer that shoots for real goals instead of trendy bullshit.

Go check out Engadgets hands on with a prototype of it on YouTube. I&#x27;m on my phone otherwise id link it myself.<p>It&#x27;s certainly interesting, but I think the eink back looks a little... Well, ugly. Would be neat if reading HN on it would not drain my battery, but the radios suck down most battery after the screen, so I think offline documents would be better suited. Think not needing a kindle... It&#x27;s really different.<p>(why the downvote? I normally never ask, but I&#x27;m confused as to what I did incorrectly and would love to know so I can avoid it in the future)

It took five full middle finger mouse wheel scrolls to get to the portion where the first map popped up on screen. It looks cool and all, but this is just ridiculous.

Looks cool but I couldn&#x27;t bother spending more than 30 seconds on that page. Do you seriously expect your users to scroll for 2 minutes to present information that could be put into a slideshow&#x2F;GIF&#x2F;video?

Phone aside I can&#x27;t be the only person who finds the whole scrolling&#x2F;animation thing just a bit obnoxious, can I? Such a slow way to get to the information.

How much does it cost? I can&#x27;t find it anywhere on the website, not even on the preorder page.

Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but at first it reads like &quot;Yet Another Phone&quot;...

Do people think having notifications on the back of a phone is a good idea? I just imagine several strange situations in the subway etc.

Can you use the device in e-ink only mode all the time? For all apps and phone calls etc?

What was that about &quot;You Can&#x27;t Build a Smartphone&quot;?<p><a href="http://joshondesign.com/2013/12/02/nosmartphone" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshondesign.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;nosmartphone</a>

Cool idea, but the large bezel on the sides makes this phone instantly ugly by todays standards. Unless it&#x27;s outrageously cheap, the design will likely keep most people from buying this.

Slightly offtopic, a photo of an early mockup&#x2F;protoype for this phone showed a physical vibrate-mode switch ala the iPhone. The final production module doesn&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;ve puzzled before why no Android phone (that I&#x27;ve seen) has a physical switch for vibrate. I can only assume Apple has a patent, but I&#x27;ve never found hard evidence. Anyone know of a phone other than the iPhone that has such a switch? Or the reason only the iPhone has it?

Some issues with the scrolling on my MBP with Chrome.<p>Otherwise it looks nice!

Cool design. Going to stick with Popslate (<a href="http://www.popslate.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popslate.com&#x2F;</a>) so I can keep my iPhone

I missed the fact that each link has multiple screens and you need to &quot;scroll&quot;. I was clicking on one section at a time. Otherwise it&#x27;s awesome.

&quot;Hi Honey! Do you remember about our Dinner?&quot;<p>&quot;Oops, sorry dear... I got this new phone now and its so entertaining that I really forgot about our Dinner.&quot;

Great user design, great ux, found everything immediately 10&#x2F;10 would buy from these ui&#x2F;ux experts. &#x2F;sarcasm

This would be a phone that I&#x27;d actually be willing to move back to Android for. If the e-ink display API would be designed no worse than Android&#x27;s main API, I&#x27;d hack all kinds of homegrown apps for it.

Some sites are enjoyable when they use the scrolling down animation effect, this site was horrible. It wasnt clear that I even should scroll down and when I did it never ended.

I wonder why there&#x27;s no Ogg Vorbis besides MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR, MIDI and WAV in the audio specifications.

Hacker news should be renamed &quot;Start-up Web Presence Critics&quot; I think.

I think it&#x27;s kind of fun. I love that it has an always on wallpaper.

So the phone&#x27;s first feature is the fact that it is always on?

The phone is upside down and even the phones logo....<p>(From the first page under &quot;Never Miss A Thing&quot;)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/7w427r8.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7w427r8.png</a><p>Seems like a real work in progress type of phone ;-)

Argh why can&#x27;t I just have a cheap e-ink phone!

Scrolling doesn&#x27;t work on Chrome 31.0.1650.57 on Mac OS X 10.9.

I&#x27;m curious how a smartphone with only one (e-paper) screen would behave. Better if it&#x27;s high DPI. So far I&#x27;ve found only the announced Onyx phone[1] with no technical details about the screen.<p>[1]: <a href="https://onyx-boox.com/coming-soon-e-ink-news/e-ink-smartphone/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onyx-boox.com&#x2F;coming-soon-e-ink-news&#x2F;e-ink-smartphon...</a>

Some cool ideas here. Not new ideas, but if they are put into a shipping product, that will be good.<p>Then they have &quot;Stand out from the crowd,&quot; ugh. This is an unfortunate bullet point, just for its lameness.<p>The screen doesn&#x27;t look like a paper display to me. What am I missing? Are there color paper displays now?