XTEink X4

[jago25_98]

Originally Posted by readern4vi

This is such dumb decision, I don't know why they did it. They're even claiming that the broken screens that people are posting about are due to the custom firmware...

The CFW is why the device is even popular to begin with!

They want to charge a higher price for international users and a lower price for the mainland market,
so they're saying that the more expensive international version won't be blocked.

However, as we saw with various phone manufacturers and also vendor locking in USA market (for example with the Samsung variants), this creates a confusing situation where a phone might be labelled as X, but in reality there are lots of subvariants. So rom enthusiasts kept fighting this, but also moved away from those in their purchases.
So this will be the same thing again where the Xteink X4/X3 brandnames are tarnished with that confusion.

Xteink aren't exactly Nirav Patel. They're just a random small Chinese company that got VC money and squandered its community core.

My suggestion is to refocus on the Delink project. It's basically the same hardware: ESP32 tied to same size screen, just a bit more bulky at the moment due to being DIY. You can even run Crosspoint on it.