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Originally Posted by Question Mark
Yours didn't come with a matte screen protector already applied?
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Nope, regretfully I didn't get it either applied or non-applied. Do you know of a place to get the Pro A5 non-color version with matte?
My color phone: today I got an email from AliExpress titled "Bad News", even though I haven't filed for return yet. But I am done exploring the phone, and I am pretty sure a B&W version will be wonderful for my reading.
READING
• FBReader. Works well. Haven't tried Premium with Google Translate, but works with ColorDict.
• AnkiDroid. Works for adding cards from FBReader, and also works fine enough for reviewing.
LEARNING and PRODUCTIVITY
• Listen Audiobook Player. Works.
• YouTube. Will apparently work, according to redditor who's installed Gapps.
• Quizlet. Works okayish. Fine enough. Though slow without speed mode. (But at the time of writing, my phone switches from clear mode in FBReader to speed mode in Quizlet when I switch apps, so seems like it remembers the last setting in that app, at least that's what happened when using it now)
• Dropbox. Worked fine to download and open. Haven't explored it further.
• Dropsync. Worked fine to download and open. Haven't explored it further.
• EchoHacks. Doesn't work, like on other new Android Os devices.
RUNNING
• Deezer music app. Worked.
• Haven't bothered with checking exercise apps. Will maybe do it later when I get the B&W version.
Some of these apps may drain the phone of battery, as it went to zero soon after I started installing and playing around with them. There's a battery saving mode I didn't try.
Some fun things. The phone has a button dedicated to speech, like a Chinese Siri; not sure what utility it has for us Westerners, and it's got Split Screen (three fingers up to activate), which works for like Chrome and Dropbox.
I am not sure all the aforementioned apps will work without Google Play Services, when I start using them proper, but that said I can't really say I've missed Google Play so far. It's worked pretty much fine without it, except that I'd get Listen Audiobook Player installed in a more smooth fashion. All in all, to be an e-ink device: great work by Hisense.