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Video
I played some Netflix and YouTube on both the Yotaphone 2 and HiSense A2 Pro.
I was surprised at the difference. If video is important to you I would suggest that you stay with the Yotaphone 2 or check out the Yota3+ or the new HiSense phone with the smaller bezels and the backlit eink screen. They might display video similar to the Yotaphone 2.
The waveform HiSense uses for their 'smooth' mode does not work as well as the Yotaphone 2 for watching video. Video plays back smoothly on the hihsense but I see lots of dithering and only a few shades of grey black are displayed. It is not a nice experience for watching video. I will try to upload a video.
Eink Only
Yes you can only use the eink screen. I do that often.
The fingerprint reader is on the side of the device and you can program the device to open one screen or the other based on which finger on a specific hand is coded to the AMOLED or eink screen.
The phone can also be set so that if flat on a table whatever screen is up will be live when unlocked.
Finally if you press and hold the virtual button on the widget screen while the phone is locked the eink screen will unlock.
Shortcuts to any android app can be added to the widget screen that when touched will open those apps without having to get to the android desktop first.
Pressing on the bottom right icon of the widget screen after unlocking gives you the choice of "Switching to Android" which works the same as it does on the yotaphone 2.
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