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Originally Posted by andyh2000
I bought an X4 as an experiment. I've been travelling on trains a lot recently and wondered if it would work to display my electronic tickets. I don't like fumbling with an expensive phone at the ticket barrier while towing a suitcase, and I'm always worried about the battery running out halfway through the journey. A small eInk device seemed the answer to both those problems. And I can confirm it works perfectly. I set a screenshot of the ticket to be the cover image and I don't even have to turn the X4 on. I've also just ordered an X3 to see if that would work as well while being even smaller.
Plus it's genuinely useful as an ereader - you can just shove it in your pocket and take it anywhere without thinking about it.
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this is the exact use case i had in mind when i wished
years ago that someone would produce a 3 to 4 inch device.
not only do i have all my loyalty cards on my x3/x4, but i also have wifi QR codes, the bar code for my costco card , my AAA card, libary cards, just about anything credit card sized.
i don't like the original firmware and switched over to CrossPoint. however, there is one thing about CrossPoint that is lacking...it doesn't support the png image format in its image viewer. currently, it only supports bmp format. waiting for the day when png is supported so that i don't have to convert to bmp every image i want to display.