minus-squareRosalieMorgan@readit.buzztoAndroid@lemmy.world•Do you think a Fold style phone with an eInk display on the outside would work well?linkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoI don’t think I am going to want a folding phone for a very long time. An e-ink display on the back of a phone would be cool though. It looks like at least one company made a prototype of such a thing back in 2013: https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/the-yotaphone-has-an-e-ink-display-on-the-back-and-thats-simply-awesome/ I don’t know why e-ink never seems to take off outside of e-readers, maybe it’s just still too expensive? linkfedilink
I don’t think I am going to want a folding phone for a very long time. An e-ink display on the back of a phone would be cool though.
It looks like at least one company made a prototype of such a thing back in 2013: https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/the-yotaphone-has-an-e-ink-display-on-the-back-and-thats-simply-awesome/
I don’t know why e-ink never seems to take off outside of e-readers, maybe it’s just still too expensive?