Bigme Hibreak Pro releases 15th of January

[kandwo]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Kaleido "300 dpi mono" is inferior to actual mono panel 300 dpi (without Kaleido's coloured dots) in sharpness, contrast, brightness (at same ambient light) and has coloured artefacts with certain 300 dpi content. It's physics.

The artefact issue is why there is an option on some devices to only render mono at 150 dpi. That makes it virtually artefact free, though still a slight "screen door" effect because the coloured dots deliberately don't fill the pixels, to improve brightness and contrast at expense of saturation.

So grayscale on Kaleido is only approximately 300 dpi at best and never as good as a regular mono 300 dpi panel.

I've seen a current Onyx model "face to face". My companion also remarked that it was a lot poorer than the Kobo Sage.

In ambient light the Kindle DXG (Pearl screen) is brighter and better contrast. It's 150 dpi.

A lot of the old Kindle screens are better than modern day offerings in both sharpness and contrast. They lack the PPI, but are often easier to read, since poorly implemented glass cover screens distort letters, and so do poorly implemented extra layers (touch, frontlight).

[Markismus]

Got an email announcing the pre-Sale for the color version: 150dpi for color and 300dpi for B&W.

Paid 334€ ( 399$ ) for it and I expect to pay another 70€ for import fees. The will be shipping it to the Netherlands from China somewhere in October.

My Hisense A5 pro cc is really dying on me. ADB is dead. Screen has been replaced, but is cracked, again. Flexcable to fingerprintsensor is dead. Really think that I shouldn't have dropped in in that parking spot, where at least one car drove* over it. I expect it to be a nice replacement for me.

I'll post whether the screen change for color from 100 to 150dpi and an even smaller increase in resolution is worth it.
Specs comparison between Bigme see attached image.

Spec comparison between Bigme Hibreak color and Hisense A5 pro cc.

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* Do cars drive over bumps in the road or ride over them? Any native English speakers?

[Renate]

I'd say that the car ran over it.
Let op! Drempels!

[Markismus]

I've received the Bigme Hibreak Pro Color last week. Didn't hear from them for a month from ordering on the 12th of September until the 11th of October.

The mobile works well. The screen is a huge upgrade from my Hisense A5 pro cc. Didn't expect it to be since it only increase the dpi from 100 to 150. Still newspaper quality pictures, but reasonable quality at least.
Google works. Hearing aids work, c.q. ASHA works. Games work.

Haven't figured out how to work the eInk settings to my liking and keep resetting it to default.

Basically I installed everything the way I had it on my old phone and it feels the same only a lot better.