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Originally Posted by Gormagon
You can switch the normal colour screen to a b/w screen (or a more paperlike colour screen) quite easily on the TCL 40 using the drop down menu and clicking on "NXTPAPER MODE".
Since the NXTPAPER screen is no e-ink screen it has no ghosting, no annoying refresh and colours look like one would expect them to look like (e.g. they are not washed out).
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I found the Nxtpaper & Mono modes to be a gimmick. Simply having sRGB, a nice theme, tweak colour balance and have manual brightness indoors worked best. Though the Nxtpaper 3.0 based Nxtpaper 14 realistically can imitate the color Onyx Boox I saw.
The NxtPaper 40 gets better reviews than Nxtpaper 50 (main difference is extra phone RF bands).
I have the Nxtpaper 40 phone and it's better to read on than my Sony PRS-350 5″ eink or the very limited P47L (no touch and phone shape 4.7″ elongated screen with buttons). So I gave away the P47L and have abandoned buying a new battery for the Sony.
It's also got massive battery life if not online or video. My phone settings / SIM is set to calls/SMS only, even background data disabled. About 19% brightness indoors, auto outdoors. WiFi & BT normally off. Also good for music or audio books or TTS (pocketbook) as it has BT and 3.5mm jack. Better life than eink android playing music.
I paid under €200 inc shipping and VAT.
The good eink models are only better than Nxtpaper 2.0 or Nxtpaper 3.0 if the ambient light is good enough to have your front light off.
I have a Nxtpaper 11 for Pen notes (full Nebo) and the Nxtpaper 3.0 screened Nxtpaper 14 (14.25″) for big stuff). NxtPaper 40 mysteriously also supports Nebo with finger or dumb phone stylus and on their web (My Write for Nebo) site it's the only device without built-in digitiser (Wacom, USI 2.0, MS/NPP, Apple etc) supported by Nebo. But I use Google's Gboard to to finger/stylus writing (off line) to real time text in an ordinary text editor for notes. Be sure to change all the defaults in Gboard.