You guys, Hisense just announced something that sounds like it belongs in an alternate timeline — the A10 with a 6.13-inch E Ink touchscreen as its main display. It's meant for reading and note-taking, so it feels paper-like, similar to Kindle Sise displays. The crazy part is there's a secondary color LCD screen that magnetizes onto the back of the device! You can snap it on or leave it off depending on what you need at the moment. They are even expected to sell the phone and the detachable panel as separate purchases, so if all you want is an E Ink handset, they have a version for that too. It's probably going to ship with 5G and run Android 16 under the hood.
I'm hearing the A10 might be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chipset, which would be wild inside an E Ink phone — you rarely see high-end silicon in this niche. Starting price is rumored around $590, but that likely buys you just the base unit; adding the color panel would obviously bump it up. The good news is Bigme already launched a HiBreak Dual 2 with dual screens and a colorable E Ink main display, so the category isn't new even if Hisense made it interesting. They also posted a tweet showing off an official kit image of both versions side-by-side on Twitter via Rock Leaks. This probably won't land in the US officially — you would have to import it from Chinese e-commerce channels - but I might be tempted anyway!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2214427/hisense-a10-e-ink-phone-full-color-lcd-detachable
I'm hearing the A10 might be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chipset, which would be wild inside an E Ink phone — you rarely see high-end silicon in this niche. Starting price is rumored around $590, but that likely buys you just the base unit; adding the color panel would obviously bump it up. The good news is Bigme already launched a HiBreak Dual 2 with dual screens and a colorable E Ink main display, so the category isn't new even if Hisense made it interesting. They also posted a tweet showing off an official kit image of both versions side-by-side on Twitter via Rock Leaks. This probably won't land in the US officially — you would have to import it from Chinese e-commerce channels - but I might be tempted anyway!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2214427/hisense-a10-e-ink-phone-full-color-lcd-detachable