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Why Isn’t the Siam 7X E Ink Phone More Popular?

April 27, 2017 by Nathan Groezinger

Siam 7X

Earlier in the week we were talking about how phones with E Ink screens and E Ink cases haven’t really caught on very well.

The Yotaphone is the most popular E Ink phone crossover device, with the 3rd generation model expected later this year.

There have been some other smartphones that incorporate E Ink screens but you never really hear much about them.

The Siam 7X is a dual screen phone that sells for $249 on Amazon.

It has a 5-inch IPS screen on the front side of the phone and a 4.7-inch E Ink screen on the back.

The Siam 7X was released about a year ago now but I’ve never come across a single in-depth review of it, and it would be interesting to hear how it works from E Ink reading perspective.

There are a few YouTube videos from a year ago, but most of them were uploaded by Siam and they aren’t very informative.

A couple of the videos show the E Ink screen having a glossy layer, and apparently the E Ink side is entirely dependent on an app like the Oaxis Inkcase and it can’t mirror the front screen like the Yotaphone, so that severely limits the usefulness of the E Ink screen.

Has anyone tried the Siam 7X phone?

I haven’t heard of a single hands-on report of anyone using it since it was released a year ago.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: e ink

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  1. DaveWave says

    April 28, 2017 at 7:22 am

    I own a YotaPhone2, which I used for a month until the device was accidentally placed in a cup filled with only an inch of coffee … where the LCD screen then stopped working. In that time, I came to the conclusion that having an eink phone “is not worth it”. 4.7″ is too small to read text from, unless you very-much increase the font size, where I’d have scroll every few seconds … which became a nuisance to my eyes and to my fingers. Eink has a fairly low contrast in ordinary light scenarios, which made it difficult to see what’s on the tiny 4.7″ screen a lot of the time. NOW, when the device is out in the sunlight, it has a high contrast & I can certainly make out most everything, but I’m hardly using the phone during the direct sunlight above me. Even in direct sunlight, greens-and-reds have pretty much the same grey-scale color, so on the “often enough” times where i’ll use an app, or visit a webpage with these different-colors = similar grey-scales (on an eink screen) scenarios … it is difficult to see things.

    When my YP2 died, I went out and got an IPhone7+ … which although it’s not e-ink, I am quite happy with it overall (although it does cause eye strain after extended use)

  2. Jon says

    May 2, 2017 at 10:10 am

    I found this less-than enthusiastic early release review:
    https://www.cnet.com/news/hands-on-with-the-siam-7x-dual-screen-smartphone/
    Probably not really a big miss…

  3. Andy says

    October 23, 2017 at 11:01 am

    That they don’t work on the 4G network in the US is a big reason I don’t get one.

  4. Pierre Gallaz says

    October 31, 2017 at 7:55 am

    I own the hisense a2 and I am very, very happy with it. It has a much bigger e-ink screen and a very reasonable price tag.

  5. Rob says

    December 8, 2017 at 3:53 am

    I want an e-ink ONLY phone. I understand this means a reduced set of smart phone features (or perhaps a different approach for some existing features), and I’m ok with that. I’m not going to bye some hybrid garbage though.

  6. Rob says

    December 8, 2017 at 3:54 am

    ugh… buy, not bye.

  7. DK says

    January 11, 2018 at 10:11 pm

    I was going to buy one of their phones but the manufacturer never returned my emails… not exactly a vote of confidence in their own products.

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