I get this is a little pricey but it has expandable storage, a physical keyboard, a headphone jack, dual speakers, dual sim card tray, and a promise of 5 years of security updates.
Those bezels suck though. Either make the screen bigger while keeping the device dimensions or make the device more compact.
But I’m sympathetic. It’s fairly bespoke, a lot of care clearly went into creating it, and it’s not a mass-market item. It’d be impossible to manufacture cheaply.
Overpriced in terms of what the market is willing to pay for a device like this, but likely not in terms of markup over design/manufacturing costs.
They don’t inherently need to, it’s just that with e-reader devices like your examples you tend to either have physical buttons on the side and/or want a place to grip the larger device without tapping the screen. There’s no reason a phone-sized e-ink device would need the bezels. Most likely there weren’t that many screens to choose from and they didn’t want to shrink the keyboard down to better match the screen.
I get this is a little pricey but it has expandable storage, a physical keyboard, a headphone jack, dual speakers, dual sim card tray, and a promise of 5 years of security updates.
Those bezels suck though. Either make the screen bigger while keeping the device dimensions or make the device more compact.
It’s very pricey for what it is.
But I’m sympathetic. It’s fairly bespoke, a lot of care clearly went into creating it, and it’s not a mass-market item. It’d be impossible to manufacture cheaply.
Overpriced in terms of what the market is willing to pay for a device like this, but likely not in terms of markup over design/manufacturing costs.
E-Ink has big bezel generally, no?
They don’t inherently need to, it’s just that with e-reader devices like your examples you tend to either have physical buttons on the side and/or want a place to grip the larger device without tapping the screen. There’s no reason a phone-sized e-ink device would need the bezels. Most likely there weren’t that many screens to choose from and they didn’t want to shrink the keyboard down to better match the screen.