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I am surprised no one has mentioned E Ink phones. My daily driver is an E Ink Hisense A5 phone that is modified to run Google Play. It can run all Android apps without any major issues.

The E Ink display has two advantages over LCD: it consumes very little power and it looks great under bright sunshine. I also get less eyestrain reading eBooks and RSS on the matte E Ink display.

I love E Ink so much I doubt I am ever going back to LCD, but the E Ink display is not perfect: it is black and white (there is a color version but it is very grainy), and the E Ink display is also less responsive than an LCD.

I previously made a post about this topic: https://galambo.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/avoid-news/
Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:06AM (#19318945)
I recommend you try the extension "Auto Tab Discard": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

It uses the native tab discard method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. This way you can have lots of tabs without slowing the browser down.

For other extensions I use: https://galambo.wordpress.com/2018/12/25/firefox-extensions-...