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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 31 2019, @05:52AM (1 child)
Networking
mobile radiation [wikipedia.org] "limited to a equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) radiated power output of 3 watts, and the network continuously adjusts the phone transmitter to the lowest power consistent with good signal quality, reducing it to as low as one milliwatt when near the cell tower."
Take 1W as an average and calculate how long a 3.6V x 1.8Ah battery will last.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 31 2019, @04:42PM
Sending a keepalive message every n milliseconds does not draw the equivalent of a Watt.
Yes, on this phone, the Network should be the biggest current draw.
But 2 days is ridiculous, when you're not pounding that big battery with constant FB/IG/YT payloads.