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Smartphone with E-ink display and autonomy for 14 days


Active use of modern smartphoneshas a detrimental effect on the user's vision. Developers from the American company Kingrow presented the first smartphone that is optimal for the health of human eyes. The screen of the Kingrow K1 smartphone uses technology of electronic ink E-ink.

Smartphone Kingrow K1 is equipped with 5.17 inchmonitor with a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels. Anti-reflective protective glass cover and adjustable backlight provide comfortable reading from the screen in any light.

The smartphone is running a specialAndroid 8.1 version with interface adapted for E-ink monitor. The most popular applications are preinstalled on the smartphone. The owners of Kingrow K1 will be able to use Facebook, WhatsApp and other social networks. By October of this year, developers are planning to create their own application store for E-ink smartphone.

At the first stage, the owners of Kingrow K1 canuse your smartphone for ordinary calls, sending messages, reading and sending e-mail, chatting in instant messengers and reading news feeds from social networks. For making calls and access to LTE-networks, the smartphone provides for the use of two SIM-cards.

The hardware part of the Kingrow K1 is presentedMediaTek processor, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of main memory. There is a slot for microSD. There are two cameras: front and main. Photos will be color, but you can only view on the screen in black and white.

Provision of autonomous work assigned tobattery with a capacity of 3,100 mAh. The battery charge is enough for 20 hours of continuous communication in the telephone mode and for 400 hours in the standby mode. There is a USB Type-C connector through which you connect to a computer, or charge the battery.


Currently, you can order Kingrow K1 on the Indeigogo crowdfunding platform for $ 299

Source / Buy: indiegogo