This crowdfunded E Ink QWERTY phone isn’t vaporware after all

The Minimal Phone's E Ink Screen Will Bore You Out of Doomscrolling

E Ink is fantastic for long bouts of reading, but it does not a smartphone make.

This crowdfunded E Ink QWERTY phone isn’t vaporware after all

The Minimal Phone is even a Swiftie. When the Minimal Phone was first announced this time last year, you might have been forgiven for thinking it was vaporware. But one year — and many delays — later, the world’s first Android phone with both an E Ink display and a physical QWERTY keyboard has begun shipping to backers. In broad strokes, the Minimal Phone looks a bit like a BlackBerry, with a wide body and a squat screen perched above its stream…

Hands-On Look at Minimal Phone, a Keypad-Equipped 4.3″ E-Ink Smartphone

When BlackBerry meets Kindle, you get the Minimal Phone, a keypad-equipped 4.3″ E-ink smartphone. Featuring a MediaTek MT6769 processor with two AMR Cortex-A75 cores, 6GB of LPDDR4XRAM, 128GB of internal storage, 16MP rear camera, and a 3,000 mAh battery with support for 15W Qi wireless charging. The touchscreen (600 x 800 pixel) E-Ink display boasts [...]