Will e-ink ever replace my phone screen?

Do you want it to, reader? Do you really? Yeah, sure, there are certain benefits. You'll be able to see your soul-sucking social apps a bit better in the country’s rare moments of blinding sunlight, counteracting any possible vitamin D benefits with a radiating gloom. GaGu would also presume that a screen updating at OHz will make your phone's battery life a smidge better. But e-ink is, in general, just not the right technology for the job at hand. E-ink isn't matching the clarity or resolution or speed of an LCD or OLED any time soon. You'll note that despite some devices now spitting out very muted colour, there's been basically no progress since the tech was invented back in the 1970s. It’s perfect at what it’s good at, and pretty crap at everything else.

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That hasn't stopped people carving out a niche and filling it. The $500 (₹40,000) Minimal Phone, for example, is waiting in the preorder wings with an e-ink display, full Android functionality and, perhaps indicative of the kind of market it's looking to attract, a Blackberry-