GoKawiilTL;DR E-Ink brand Bigme is teasing a dual-screen smartphone, featuring both color E-Ink and LCD panels.
This would be the first smartphone to offer both color E-Ink and conventional screens.
It also comes years after the first dual-screen phones with monochrome E-Ink and conventional displays.
Phones with E-Ink displays are great for reading, but bad for video playback and gaming. One solution to this problem emerged in the 2010s, as a couple of manufacturers released dual-screen phones with a monochrome E-Ink screen on one side and a conventional display on the other. Now, a nascent manufacturer is reviving this trend.
E-Ink brand Bigme has teased the arrival of a dual-screen smartphone (h/t: Liliputing). It claims this is the world’s first smartphone with both a color E-Ink display and an LCD screen. The teaser image doesn’t give us a look at the dual-screen setup, but I’m assuming the color E-Ink screen is on one side, while the LCD panel is on the other. Check out the image below.
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There have been dual-screen phones with E-Ink and conventional displays before, such as the YotaPhone series (see the top of the page) and the Hisense A6. But those devices featured monochrome E-Ink displays, whereas Bigme earns its world-first claim by using a color E-Ink panel.
Would you buy a dual-screen phone with e-ink and conventional displays? 13 votes Yes, absolutely 46 % Maybe, it depends on price/features 54 % No, I wouldn't 0 %
Bigme hasn’t revealed much else about the phone, but it has taken to Reddit to tease specs. The company posted an image that hints at stylus support, NFC, 5G connectivity, and dual-SIM tech.
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