Bigme HiBreak Pro Color is an Android 14 smartphone with 4G LTE and 5G cellular connectivity, and a more unique feature: a 6.13-inch E-Ink color display.
We had seen a few smartphones with E-ink grayscale displays in the past, with products such as the Hisense A5 or YotaPhone 3, but phones with an E-Ink color display are more of a rarity, and the Bigme HiBreak Pro Color adds to the Hisense A7CC. Other key features include a MediaTek Dimensity 1080 octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB UFS flash.
Bigme HiBreak Pro Color specifications:
- SoC – MediaTek Dimensity 1080
- Octa-core CPU – 4x Arm Cortex-A78 cores @ 2.6 GHz, 4x Arm Cortex-A55 cores @ 2.0 GHz
- GPU – Arm Mali-G68 MC4
- VPU
- Video decoding – H.265, H.264, MPEG-4, VP9 up to 4K @ 30 FPS
- Video encoding – H.265, H.264 up to 4K @ 30 FPS
- System Memory – 8GB RAM
- Storage – 256GB UFS storage
- Display
- 6.13-inch color ePaper touchscreen display with 1648×824 resolution
- 150 PPI (color) and 300 PPI (BW)
- Refresh rate – Not specific data mentioned
- Cold and warm front light
- Glass panel
- Camera
- 20MP rear camera
- 5MP front-facing camera
- Audio – Speaker and microphone
- Wireless
- 4G LTE and 5G cellular
- 5G NR bands
- NSA: N1/2/3/5/7/8/20/25/28/38/40/41/66/77/78
- SA: N1/2/3/5/7/8/20/25/28/38/41/77/78
- 4G LTE bands
- LTE-FDD: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/66
- LTE-FDD: B34/B39/B38/B40/B41
- Dual SIM Dual Standby
- 5G NR bands
- Dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 5.3
- NFC support
- 4G LTE and 5G cellular
- USB – USB Type-C port for charging
- Misc
- Infrared transmitter
- Fingerprint unlock
- Gyroscope, Compass
- Battery – 4,500 mAh with 18W fast charge support
- Dimensions – 159.8 x 80.9 x 8.9 mm
- Weight – 193 grams
Based on the provided photos and video, the colors on the Bigme HiBreak Pro Color look much brighter/vivid than the Hisense A7CC introduced in 2021. That’s probably because it uses a newer Kaleido 3 color e-paper display.
Android 14 supports Google Play, so the E-Ink Color smartphone will act like a normal smartphone, except for users who mostly watch videos or play games, as the slower refresh rate of E-Ink displays is not ideal. It should be greater for people browsing the web, typing emails, reading ebooks, and using the phone outdoors, for example, to follow a route while cycling.
Bigme HiBreak Pro Color smartphone is up for pre-order for $399, with shipping expected by early October. The regular price should be $469 after the pre-order period.
Via Liliputing
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I wonder how would it act as navigation device. Theoretically, it should be better in bright daylight and not that taxing on the eyes in darkness, in’it?
I wonder how good it is at AI tasks? I wish they would have created a 12 GB, or 16 GB model as well. With AI becoming more predominant as time moves forward, 8 GB is not enough for today’s AI market.
Many of the screens visible in the video (mostly at the beginning and the end of the video, with very white backgrounds) are quite likely to be simulated and quite far from the actual colours.
The rest of the video is pretty weird, either there’s terrible lag or what happens on the screen is mostly unrelated to the touch gestures.
As far as I know all “fast” colour e-Ink screens (Gallery and Kaleido) have pretty bad colours. Of course some are going to be better than others, but don’t quite expect any vibrant colours. Curious to see the actual result.
Sold out already.