Re:Librem 5: First Impressions
by shp0ngle on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:48PM
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There are e-ink phones.
They don't run regular Android though, with Google Play, just the open source version with some Chinese marketplace. I have followed one (now dead) e-ink phone on indiegogo (forgot the name, sorry), and they wrote that Google does not let (black-and-white) e-ink smartphones pass Android certification, because they cannot correctly display the colors in their apps. So they will never run Google Play, and there will never be just e-ink phone with built-in regular Android and Google Play, sadly.
There is a hacky way to get Google Play on the hisense phones, but... ugh. That's too much hackiness for me.
They don't run regular Android though, with Google Play, just the open source version with some Chinese marketplace. I have followed one (now dead) e-ink phone on indiegogo (forgot the name, sorry), and they wrote that Google does not let (black-and-white) e-ink smartphones pass Android certification, because they cannot correctly display the colors in their apps. So they will never run Google Play, and there will never be just e-ink phone with built-in regular Android and Google Play, sadly.
There is a hacky way to get Google Play on the hisense phones, but... ugh. That's too much hackiness for me.