If battery drain is even (it isn't, but whatever) I'm currently averaging roughly 1/4 of the battery per day.

In practice, I used a lot more network and backlight night one than I have since then, so actual drain rate probably averages lower.

We'll see as the week progresses if I'm right, and I'll keep a running tab for a few weeks for a better average.

Its 9pm. Today was a less heavy use day, but still some. Sitting at 19% remaining.

That's solid as hell.

"Days if not weeks" on a charge, easy.

So I'm sticking it on the charger now. We'll see where I land tomorrow.

@syntacticsugarglider I'll post a video later. It's fine if you don't care about fidelity. It's crap if you want if you want it to look good.

@ajroach42 i don't really care about fidelity, I'm just really excited by the potential battery life

and i found a video online of the A5 Pro CC, not sure how different it is (other than a panel with color support) but the refresh times really impressed me compared to the Kindles etc. I've owned in the past

@syntacticsugarglider it's a Hisense A5 if that'll help you compare.

@ajroach42 yeah I found the model info but I didn't find a video of that specific model

as I said the A5 CC impressed me though so I might just buy one at some point to play around with

@kelbot
I would love to read @ajroach42's thoughts on this too :)

@FiXato @kelbot I'll have a blog post soon.

@ajroach42 It's Android, so Koreader should run on it, right?

@FiXato @kelbot

@emacsomancer @kelbot @FiXato what's that?

@ajroach42 I am guessing they mean the #ebook reader: https://github.com/koreader/koreader @emacsomancer @kelbot

@kelbot I just got it two hours ago. Took like five months because of the corona virus.

@ajroach42 how is the refresh time? does it become jarring for the Android UI? I'm thinking of getting one of these and porting LineageOS or something.

@PeterCxy so far it's usable. I'll post videos and a review eventually

@ajroach42 The Hisense A5 E INK smartphone?

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hisense-a5-e-ink-smartphone-review

@dredmorbius that's the one.

@ieure the original. Ordered it in January, but it got delayed until mid May due to corona, and then I moved to GA and just got my mail.

@Shufei yes

@ajroach42 That is jolly adorable.
https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hisense-a5-e-ink-smartphone-review

@penguin42 I hadn't done a fuller screen refresh in a while. The fuzziness was from the character count counter jiggling things around.

@ajroach42 Ah, is this one of the epaper things where it's a bit less distinct until you do a full refresh?

@penguin42 yes

@feonixrift this is not new ground for me. I use a non backlit grayscale screen having, rechargable AA battery powered laptop most days.

@ajroach42 Ooh... :)

@ajroach42 I'm daily-driving off an lcd laptop still, but phone/watch/tablet have all gone grey and sunny.

@feonixrift @ajroach42 There are e-ink mobiles!?

@siina @feonixrift yeah

@siina @ajroach42 It's becoming a thing again! The one mentioned upthread is currently available, I have a kingrow k1 which were a limited run (although the company is active and selling in china) and those come up on the secondhand market pretty often.

@feonixrift which tablet?

I still have to use a traditional laptop for my day job, but I'm using an hp omnibook 300 (occasionally connected to a raspberry pi) as my primary personal laptop.

@ajroach42 Onyx Boox Note - it's billed as an ereader but it's a full android tablet with pen input.

@xiamx better!!

@ajroach42
Wow that looks pretty good. Now I want to get my hands on one as well

@xiamx took me several months to get this one. Working on a full review.

@ajroach42 niece, looking forward for it! I've seen a few review from the coolapk community but felt they were over enthusiastic about it.

@xiamx I mean, aside from the pita that is the Chinese skinned distro, I've enjoyed the hell out of it so far.

I don't think it is daily driver ready for folks looking for a regular smartphone, but if you come in with an understanding of the limitations and intentions of the device, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how usable it is.

At least, I have been so far. I'll have more to report in a few days.

@egret fine, but not great. The included keyboard app was garbage. I replaced it but the new one also isn't great.

@egret but that's just a problem of me not having an Android keyboard app I like, not a limitation of the device.

@ajroach42 I was wondering how usable such a screen is for messaging, with the eink updating on every keypress. I would love to try a phone like this, probably at a smaller size, because 90% of what I do on the phone is reading static forum posts and articles anyway.

@egret oh, partial updates. It's fine.

@ajroach42 @egret good, looking forward to your review, would be very interested in it as my daily in theory, the only things I want to be doing on my phone (ebook, messaging, confirm something on a map or wiki) seem like they should be fine in the limits, but does have to be usable/non-frustrating in the basics to be daily .

@loppear Don't look forward to that, I won't buy a new phone until my xperia xz1 compact gives in, and then I'll just take a second hand one out of the cupboard where I have 3 more laying around (when I find a good pair of shoes I buy 4 more).

I refuse to use anything above 4.8 inches.

@ajroach42 I could just imagine that something like that could extend a laptop's battery by multiple days. and if you're just a college student or a writer, you could just write all day and take advantage of this a lot, only switching out of the mode to watch videos or what have you

@ajroach42 and combine that with Freesync, you could make the laptop last forever on a charge, and it would be the best thing ever

@ajroach42 maybe the processor power could make a system to where it could smart refresh only the part of the screen that needs it