Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd
The Kingrow K1 probably isn’t the best smartphone for mobile gaming, watching videos, or framing the perfect photo… because you’d probably want a color display for any of those things, and the Kingrow K1 doesn’t have one.
What it does have is an E Ink display that’s easy to see in direct sunlight and which doesn’t draw a lot of power. Kingrow says the smartphone gets up to 2 days of battery life during normal usage, 7 days if you disable wireless and just use it for reading, and 15 days in standby.
The company unveiled the phone recently, and now it’s up for pre-order for $299 and up through a crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo.
[...] That $299 price only covers the first 400 orders. After that, the price goes up to $349, and the phone has an estimated shipping date of August, 2019.
Link to their Indiegogo page.
Source: https://liliputing.com/2019/05/kingrow-k1-e-ink-smartphone-hits-indiegogo-for-299-and-up.html
(Score: 3, Informative) by Trip on Friday May 31 2019, @01:18AM
The FAQ indicates that band support is limited primarily to bands not available in the US. The only American LTE bands supported are Bands 5 and 41, the latter being a Sprint-only band, and the former being used in a spotty fashion by the other three. In WCDMA and GSM, Band 2 is also supported, which is used by AT&T and T-Mobile, though for how long is an open question.