海信彩色电子墨水手机下周上市

海信彩色电子墨水手机下周上市

If 5G was the common feature that most smartphone makers were touting last year, this year’s theme seems to revolve around the screen once more. No, not some punch-hole cutout, in-display sensor, or even curved edges. Many if not all high-end phones boast of 90Hz refresh rates or even higher. In a sea of such advanced handsets, Hisense’s next phone will stand out from the crowd with an almost opposite kind of innovation, bringing the world’s first slow refresh rate smartphone with a colored electronic paper display.

如果说5G是大多数智能手机制造商去年兜售的共同功能，那么今年的主题似乎又一次围绕着屏幕展开。不，这次不是一些冲孔切口、显示传感器，甚至曲边方面。很多高端手机都有90Hz或更高的刷新率。在如此先进的手机大潮中，海信的下一款手机将以几乎完全相反的创新脱颖而出，带来全球首款带有彩色电子纸显示屏的低刷新率智能手机。

Phones with e-paper (or the E-ink brand itself) screens are nothing new but almost all of those use it as a second screen on the phone’s back. That’s because the properties of E-ink displays may make it great for certain use cases, their limitations, particularly in color, put them at a disadvantage. The availability of colored e-paper panels is slowly changing that and Hisense is daring to make that big leap of faith.

带有电子纸(或电子墨水品牌本身)屏幕的手机并不是什么新鲜事，但几乎所有的手机都将其用作手机背面的第二个屏幕。这是因为电子墨水显示器的特性可能使它在某些用例中表现出色，但它们的局限性，尤其是在颜色上，使它们处于不利地位。彩色电子纸面板的出现正在慢慢改变这一状况，海信敢于迈出这一大步。

First revealed at CES 2020 a few months back, Hisense’s phone uses one and only one screen and it is the newer kind of E-ink that can display some color, 4,096 to be exact, which is far from the millions that LCDs and OLEDs are capable of. Although Hisense says its refresh rate is faster than its previous one, it’s only in relation to other E-ink screens. Compared to regular smartphones, you won’t be able to comfortably watch a video on it.

早在几个月前的CES 2020上，海信就首次发布了这款手机，它只有一个屏幕，而且是能显示某些颜色的新型电子墨水，确切地说，是4096种，远不及lcd和oled所能显示的数百万种颜色。虽然海信表示，它的刷新率比上一代要快，但这只是相对于其他电子墨水屏幕而言。与普通智能手机相比，你无法在上面舒适地观看视频。

So why bother, you might ask. The display will be great for reading, which is what a lot of people do on their phones beyond watching or gaming. It’s easier on the eyes and now you won’t have to settle for grayscale images on the Web or your colored comics. It’s also a lot easier on the battery, given how E-ink screens only take sips when changing the contents of the screen. Just don’t expect the UI to move smoothly like on any normal Android phone.

那么，你可能会问，为什么要这么麻烦呢?这个显示屏将非常适合阅读，这是很多人在手机上除了观看或玩游戏之外所做的事情。它对眼睛更友好，现在你不必满足于网络上的灰度图像或你的彩色漫画。考虑到电子墨水屏幕在改变屏幕内容时耗电较小，它对电池的要求也要低得多。只是别指望用户界面会像普通Android手机那样流畅。

Hisense is teasing that it will launch this still unnamed colored E-ink phone to the world on April 23. Specs of this novel phone are still unknown at this point but, judging by its first full E-ink phone, it won’t be that much in order to keep the price down.

海信调侃说，它将于4月23日向全世界推出这款仍不知名的彩色电子墨水手机。这款新颖手机的规格目前还不得而知，但从其第一款全电子墨水手机来看，为了压低价格，这款手机的规格不会太高。