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Re:Why Amazon buying webOS from HP is a no-brainer by objclxt on Monday October 03, 2011 @12:01PM (#3066771)
You can - or could - get cell phones with E-ink displays. Like the Motorola Fone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE

...it just happened to be rather basic. Perhaps that was the point.

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Re:Why Amazon buying webOS from HP is a no-brainer by sliverstorm on Monday October 03, 2011 @12:04PM (#3066789)
I am aware of that phone, but I was never able to find them for sale at anything close to a reasonable price.
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Re:Why Amazon buying webOS from HP is a no-brainer by Justin_lumba on Monday October 03, 2011 @12:32PM (#3066955)
I imported one for $50 and have had it for 4 years. It's only passable as a phone to be honest as the old eink display used could only show a few types of characters (no uppercase letters!). I'd be very interested in a new eink display phone but my standards for acceptable UI has been raised by modern smartphones.
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