Bigme is releasing two smartphones, the first ones they have ever released. The new series is called HiBreak, one phone is using the latest generation colour e-paper technology, Kaleido 3 and the other is using a black and white display. Not much is known right now, but they will have cameras with flash, Google Android OS and full access to the Google Play Store, in addition to USB-C. The HiBreak Color Smartphone price is not yet confirmed. They should be shipping out at the end of June, of this year.
Since Bigme just announced the products today, they just teased it, so in the coming weeks, we should have some sort of idea of what type of tech specs it has and if it will provide good value or not. Bigme told me, they aren’t ready to disclose exact specs right now.
There isn’t very many modern smartphones on the market with E INK screens, the only company that has made a business of it, is Hisense, and there have been many reports that they are exiting this area, which makes it wide open for anyone who wants to have a go.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.