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The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard) - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I get this is a little pricey but it has expandable storage, a physical keyboard, a headphone jack, dual speakers, dual sim card tray, and a promise of 5 years of security updates.

Those bezels suck though. Either make the screen bigger while keeping the device dimensions or make the device more compact.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It's very pricey for what it is.

But I'm sympathetic. It's fairly bespoke, a lot of care clearly went into creating it, and it's not a mass-market item. It'd be impossible to manufacture cheaply.

Overpriced in terms of what the market is willing to pay for a device like this, but likely not in terms of markup over design/manufacturing costs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

E-Ink has big bezel generally, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

They don't inherently need to, it's just that with e-reader devices like your examples you tend to either have physical buttons on the side and/or want a place to grip the larger device without tapping the screen. There's no reason a phone-sized e-ink device would need the bezels. Most likely there weren't that many screens to choose from and they didn't want to shrink the keyboard down to better match the screen.