[swyx]

100% agree. imagine my shock when as a young technology analyst I discovered that E-Ink was a smallcap tech company in Taiwan and basically produced kindle displays, store price tags and that cool double sided phone that one time. I thought it was a huge deal when they managed to do color E-Ink. but no one cared.

[wrinkl3]

Around 2010 I assumed it would a matter of a couple of years until we were reading comic books on our Kindle Color ink tablets.

[deusum]

Still waiting on that E-Ink phone that lasts a month between charges.

[frik]

I bought a Motorola F3 phone like 10 years ago for relatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

E-ink display, good for elder people, you can drop it from 100 feets height, or run a tank over it, drop it in a pool. It will survive.

[lucaspiller]

The Motorola F3 is that phone, if all you care about are phone calls (it can’t really do SMS). You are probably better getting a similar era Nokia though, as the battery life was about the same and they were a lot more functional.

[leggomylibro]

You can buy 3-color (white, black, and read all over) ones for ... I want to say about 20 yuan which is like $3?

I haven't looked into driving them yet; that's step 3 and I'm still on step 1 (monochrome OLEDs) but I think you might have to do some funky temperature adjustment stuff to get good results out of them...maybe that hasn't quite been integrated into the display controller chips yet?

[em3rgent0rdr]

> "(white, black, and read all over)"

Isn't that supposed to be "red all over"? Or are you making a pun?

[spoinkarooo]

8069.TW. It has more than doubled YTD.