Hisense who is a Chinese electronics manufacturer that is often known for making TVs has now launched a new smartphone – A7 5G. Being a new addition to the company’s existing A-series, the phone carries a legacy feature and that is the E-Ink display. But, unlike other phones in the series, the new phone gets the power of 5G.
Hisense A7 5G features a 6.7-inch E-Ink display with anti-glare matte panel which comes with a single camera accompanied by an LED flash. others include;
- Four screen modes – dynamic (with increased sensitivity),
- Powered by the UNISOC Tiger T7510 processor, which is an eight-core CPU (four Arm Cortex-A75 cores clocked at 2GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8GHz).
- The SoC is coupled with PowerVR GM9446 GPU, 6GB RAM, and 128GB storage.
- 5G supports both 5G SA and NSA networks.
- Runs on Android
- USB-C port,
- 3.5mm headphone jack and also includes AK4377AECB audio DAC with support for Hi-Res Audio.
- Comes with front and back camera.
- Comes with 4,770mAh battery capacity with 18W fast-charging. however, the company is yet to talk about the battery life but this much battery with an E-Ink display could provide you up to 3-4 days of battery life.
What then is E-Ink display?
One of the benefits of E-Ink displays can be seen over conventional smartphone displays. e.g, LCD which is one of the types of smartphone displays is an emissive display that takes light from the backlight and projects it through the display towards your eyes. However, E-Ink display only imitate traditional ink and paper.
E-Ink display doesn’t use backlight is used but rather ambient light from the environment is reflected from the surface of the display back to our eyes. As such, it cause less strain on the eyes.
The Hisense A7 5G already available for purchase and it is priced at 1,999 yuan ($305) in China.
