Ultimately, the Minimal Phone is not made for the user who wants to completely disconnect but reduce the scope of their phone's capabilities. In that sense, I recommend it as a secondary device or as a daily carry you keep on your person, with a smartphone anchored at home or in the office.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing an little excerpt for curious folks passing through :)
Every time I use my ereader I just luxuriate in the eink screen, warts and all. The very moment I can get an extenal eink display for my computer that is both of reasonable resolution and also not exorbitantly expensive, I'm doing it. I wouldn't want it as a primary monitor but I'd love love love it as a secondary.
I definitely want an eink phone, but I doubt I'll have the bucks to be an early adopter, which is fine.
After a bit of warming up, eInk screens are now basically what I hoped the future would bring us, reading from them is just a joy. Add the fact that I can choose my own fonts and fontsizes for books and the future is NOW, hahaha!
Very interested where this eInk phone path will lead!
Dragging a window at 0.5 fps seems extremy difficult
Even finding the mouse cursor could take 10 seconds.
I use an eink notepad daily, I drag text about pretty regularly, it's a complete non-issue.
I wouldnβt want it as a primary monitor but Iβd love love love it as a secondary.
Been meaning to do that for a while, but most e-ink phones aren't compatible with US networks.
And now with tariffs, they are not compatible with my finances
Use wifi
there are likely better options for minimizing and not sucking up so much content on one device, but interesting, if not dated, form factor.
nanophone and jelly phones are 2 decent examples but both are small form factor.
I can't name a really good e-ink phone, but this doesn't have the battery life I'd expect in that arena...
That Jelly Phone is mighty tempting.
Dual SIM, SD card reader, headphone jack, and a back fingerprint reader.
I can just use this thing as a music player/back up phone.
My partner has one - and still loves it while on the fourth of a few models (over seven years). I can barely use it -- my fingers are too large. The camera isn't great and the white balance is just incorrect.
The battery life is understandably atrocious. But -- it is TINY.
Isnt the whole point the battery life? It should last weeks or months, no?
strangely they seem to have not (at least yet) focus on battery length with this release. I'd highly assume it's a priority to reap the benefits of the shit display.