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one super neat thing about escalators is that even when they're turned off they

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still function as a regular old staircase but what about your phone why

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does the screen go black when you turn it off instead of it showing my

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wallpaper forever well it could if you used an e-paper display like the kingrow

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k1 a full-on smartphone promising 400

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hours of standby battery life but are there enough benefits to consider

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switching to e-ink or is it more like e-stink

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the fujitsu scan snap ix 1500 allows users to easily manage edit and scan

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documents business cards receipts and photos and well pretty much anything

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check it out at the link in the video description

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we're gonna get to all the downsides about this phone in a minute but first

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the benefits who would want this thing to begin with well the company's

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indiegogo campaign advertises it as being optimized for eye health because

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as long as you're in a brightly lit room the phone doesn't have to emit any

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harmful blue light for you to see the screen that's because unlike the lcd or

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OLED screens on most phones e-ink displays don't work by shining light

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through a pixel and into your eye instead they're what's called reflective

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displays where the light around you either reflects off or is absorbed by

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the white and black parts of the screen just like most other objects around you

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like my t-shirt or this banana the k1 is certainly easy on

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the eyes and i personally love reading on it and it even comes with a kindle

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app pre-installed sure the phone is only black and white but that can actually be

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seen as another benefit bright saturated colors are super stimulating to the

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brain but are relatively rare in nature your phone and its attention buying apps

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is full of bright colors that contribute to the urge to pull it out even if it's

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just for a few seconds while you wait for an elevator to arrive or your game

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to load switching your phone to grayscale is commonly recommended as a

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strategy for fighting tech addiction because it makes your phone less

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interesting but the k1 takes this a step further

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because there's no way to switch the colors back on in a moment of weakness

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it's like this forever and finally i could also see this phone being useful

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for certain occupations because unlike regular screens that can be near

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impossible to see in direct sunlight this one actually gets easier when it's

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brighter and the battery life can be a lot better depending on your use because

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although it does take energy to update the screen to create an image retaining

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that image like the wallpaper takes no energy at all that's how the k1's 3100

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milliamp hour battery can claim an amazing 400 hours of standby if the

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phone's just sitting in your work trucks glove box but only a much more modest 20

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hours of talk time which brings us to what it's like to actually use this as a

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phone it's pretty bad mostly because of two interrelated

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problems app support and latency the k1

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does not support the google play store so you can't easily download apps

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instead you're supposed to use the apps that come pre-loaded with the phone

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or any that become available later on when kingrow's own app store finally

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launches in what we expect to be october and maybe the people who want this phone

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don't really need that many apps anyway but the limited selection along with the

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dated looking ui and the jelly bean era

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app icons make the k1 feel

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like a monochrome feature phone from the early 2000's but the reason they've made

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their own custom version of Android 8.1 and do not support the play store again

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comes back to the screen the e-ink display actually cannot pass google's

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device certification because they're just not designed to display animations

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or videos at high frame rates and by high frame rates i mean

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anything above 10 FPS really

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now i gotta hand it to king girl a little bit because unlike most e-readers

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that blink every time the screen updates showing the inverse of the image then

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all black then all white the k1 is a little more choosy for example on the

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kind of always on display the screen only does a partial update of just the

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clock though it it does still blink which is actually pretty distracting

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when it's sitting on your desk i keep thinking that i have notifications or something but if you open up the browser

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and go to youtube you can actually watch a video the higher frame rate comes at

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the cost of horrible horrible ghosting that gets wiped away by a full blink

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every minute or so but you can't do it another thing you can do is take photos

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with the 8 megapixel rear camera you can even use one of several built-in filters

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you just won't know what any of them look like until you view them from

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another device oh and the uh for selfie fans this

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prototype has a front camera but the final device will not

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so should you buy this phone well unless you're just super gung-ho on having

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basically a smaller kindle that can make phone calls

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probably not i mean as far as mid-range phones go with just 16 gigabytes of

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storage two gigabytes of RAM and a mediatek helio p23 i think it's way

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overpriced at 350 us dollars i mean our redmi note 7 has better specs for half

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the price but on top of that i don't even agree with their main claim about

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eye health because the k1 does have a backlight you can turn it completely off

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but it does have one which they claim does not emit blue light but it looks

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pretty blue to me and i'll probably be using it when i'm scrolling my phone in

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bed and that's actually worse than regular phones which nowadays

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almost always have a night light mode so with all that said plus the fact that

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ever present image retention makes the screen a perpetual palimpsest

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i'm recommending a pass to all but the most avid e-paper fans

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door peoples are so 1990s with a ring

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video doorbell you'll know who's at your front door without ever getting up their

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welcome kit includes their video doorbell too their spotlight cam a

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battery and a solar security sign the video doorbell 2 has a motion sensor

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camera it's 1080p with 160 degrees of vision it supports two-way audio and

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it's either battery or 8 to 24 volt ac

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doorbell wiring powered the spotlight camera features 1080p hd video two-way

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talk led lights and is battery or solar-powered and it's got a siren the

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audio on the ring doorbell 2 is great and you can turn away unwelcome guests

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tell them to come right in you know yo you're unwelcome but

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sure fine you know if you're mother-in-law or something and my personal favorite is telling the amazon

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delivery driver to not run away after the second knock on the door no no i'm

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