Yep. The worst are the banking apps. I'm tied to an out of date device just to run the infernal banking apps. What I want to do is use something like Genymotion or buy a spare phone just to keep at home to run them....
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Originally Posted by Markismus
Forget about the frontlight: Use real light. The A5 pro cc is beautiful in full sunshine and very clear in the store (TL overlights.) Of course, if you sit in your comfy chair with no reading lamp (paradox in itself!) and romantic christmas lighting, you can turn it on the frontlight. But it is never that beautiful.
It's eInk. It's the counterpart to LED. That one is good in the dark, this one is good in the light and reasonable in the dark: Not beautiful. Be sure to understand that the beauty is not that the resolution only gives you newspaper quality pictures (and video!), the beauty is that it gives you ePaper with 4k colors!
But it's never going to be very good if you evaluate it in the dark. I can't even read my iPhone in the sunshine. However, I am used to it and won't complain about that obvious shortcoming of the technology.
I am just starting to realize that I am moving away for a bit from LED screens. Even while writing this, I am staring at a LED. It's everywhere. So you shouldn't be worried if you find that the devices don't work like your LED; That the white is a bit off. It has 4k colors. The gamut isn't going to be like a LED with milllions. However, it is very nice. Even though most people, that I show it to find it interesting, but not as good as their phone. Because it isn't OLED. And I quite agree. It isn't OLED: it's eInk.
And for the sake of everyday use: You can use it everywhere. Even in the sun. It has a battery that after a day of intensive use shows somewhere between 78% and 83%. I still charge it every night, because Li-batteries like to be topped off and I am used to my iPhone being at 3%-10% at that time. I can give it to my children without the worry of eyes being to long on a screen.
So that is the positive side. The negative side obviously is the dependency of a _lot_ of apps on Google. I can't use Google Play. And I am wondering whether I want to. Google is nice, but I don't like to be dependent on it. If you install apk's of Google services*, etc. etc., you get rid of all the nag boxes of apps saying that they need Google. Even the Google keyboard can be sideloaded: It won't even nag at you, as it does when you have installed it from Play and disabled Play afterwards.** But there are still limits.
I can install my banking app, but it needs a working Google Play or a working Google Camera for the QR code to scan. I can use it to sign transactions with a pin, but whenever it want's to scan a color code (Rabobank) I have to use scrcy (screencopy) to hook it up to a PC and get the color code there, because 4k colors on eInk are never going to be recognized by the rabo scanner.
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* You can install apk-files quite automatically in android. You can download the from stores such as Aurora or F-droid. You can also use sites such as ApkMonk or ApkPure.
** A feature in the Onyx Boox android system.
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