Strange downgrade indeed! Ive been looking for an alternative to the best phone that is a phone on the market. Google is kind of the best phone device right now but im actually sick of the internet. Need to learn to get downtime again, need to get back to paper.

Really disappointed. Was waiting years, bc I thought it was a no brainer that they would add the US bands for any of their eink devices but I might break down and buy an light phone at this point bc they have no competition in the US for eink phones

@@AffyisAffy Yeah, if full band coverage is a must, Hisense isn't there yet. I think there's some good news in that bands like n41 are getting more usage in some US areas, and the A7 CC uses that. But that's hit or miss depending on where you live. I'm still a fan but they're missing out on this midmarket of non-addictive/non-eye-tiring e-ink smartphones.

@@yuvilio thanks I'll check out if I have that band in my area. It's just crazy to me because even b/w mode on my smartphone 'calms my brain' and less distracted. I think if the research came forward that having your phone be b/w it would help people be more productive, people would view this as a productivity phone and less of a 'detox' or minimal phone situation. Plus there's stuff I can't abandon for work, like authentication apps and my last place forced us to use a laundry app. So end the end, even if I get a light phone I'll still need 2 phones and that's why a lot of people can't commit to light phone. We are forced to have a smart phone regardless. Restaurants sometimes even only publish their menu online through QR codes the expectation is so ingrained that everyone has a smartphone

I've heard that Hisense has disbanded the department related to eink phones, so the A9 may be the swan song for Hisense's eink phones.

Yup, this is definitely, the points i'm waiting them to improve to change my pro CC, please hisense : Make an international version

Thanks for the warning :| I hope that someone comes out with an eink smartphone that works in the US someday. I know there's not a huge market for it, but there of course can't be a market for it if they aren't selling the things here haha.

All I want is Google play store🙏

How do you know it doesn't work Verizon

No SD card slot anymore - they silently discontinued it, certain blogs + articles say it has MicroSD storage expansion available. But apparently its not true - this is very unfortunate i was hoping to move my entire media library (everything) onto a 500gb or more microSD card!!

别说彩色墨水屏了，就是黑白墨水屏的手机海信也不会再研发了。市场太小，海信已经放弃开发墨水屏手机

​@@xiaomeinv7Even colored ones? Sad. 😢