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I really want an e-ink phone. But not really that phone. It seems really just to be a fashion statement. I worry it'll have very little practical utility.

The best implementation I've heard of so far was YotaPhone 2 - https://yotaphone.com/gb-en/. A proper smartphone with two screens - normal one on the front, an e-ink on the back. I was considering to buy it some time ago, but I discovered the product was abandoned. If someone could re-do this concept, but put the specs of ~Galaxy S7 inside, I'd buy that in a heartbeat, even at flagship prices.

Or even better, I'd love if someone could make a proper e-ink tablet. Give me 12.3-inch e-ink touchscreen and a software stack that would let me read, browse, write e-mails and run a text editor on it, and it'll be my new go-to machine. If I could hook up a keyboard to it and run Emacs on it (even terminal Emacs via SSH), I'd be in heaven.




The remarkable [0] seems like what you're looking for. It runs Linux, and you get root + ssh access to it out of the box.

[0] https://remarkable.com


Between the ARM A9 and no LTE I would say that device isn't very remarkable.


From my research, user experiences with the reMarkable tablet vary from meh to okay, and they have a very slow software update cycle...

I'm hoping for a reMarkable 2.


How do you run your own GUI applications on it? I don't think you can. And there's also no email client.


I spent a while looking around that site and couldn't find any specs - what is the screen size?


spec page is here: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500008512...

it says 10.3" screen at 1872x1404


I also coveted the YotaPhone.

The best part of the Light Phone 2 is that pitch video. Showing how pervasive (invasive) smartphones have been become. Bullseye.

As appealing as the Light Phone 2 is... Google Maps was the killer feature that got me to board the smartphone crazy train. Especially when traveling. The thought of forfeiting maps gives me pangs of separation anxiety.


The tablets exist, eg look at the onyx boox max 2. Runs android (6), and it also has HDMI input. Not cheap, naturally.


Hisense A2 Pro is a similar device. It's worth a look.


There's a yotaphone 3 apparently. Though it looks like it's only sold in China




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