The upcoming new YotaPhone, pictured above, shows us just how gorgeous a smartphone with an E Ink display can be. The device combines a full color display with an E Ink screen, allowing owners to extend the phone’s battery life and utilize the power-sipping E Ink panel for basic functions. But what if the handset did away with the color display entirely? This is the vision of European eReader maker Onyx, which on Monday showed off its MIDIA InkPhone smartphone, a handset that promises a remarkable two weeks of battery life per charge.
“Low capacity of batteries is a weakness of modern smartphones,” Poland-based Onyx explained on its website. “Multitude of functions and applications causes increased energy consumption. We have to charge our phones even everyday. That is consequence of using large LCD displays and many aplications that works in background, when device is running.”
