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Re:Librem 5: First Impressions by shp0ngle on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:48PM (#30774297)
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.

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