I get this is a little pricey but it has expandable storage, a physical keyboard, a headphone jack, dual speakers, dual sim card tray, and a promise of 5 years of security updates.
Those bezels suck though. Either make the screen bigger while keeping the device dimensions or make the device more compact.
They don’t inherently need to, it’s just that with e-reader devices like your examples you tend to either have physical buttons on the side and/or want a place to grip the larger device without tapping the screen. There’s no reason a phone-sized e-ink device would need the bezels. Most likely there weren’t that many screens to choose from and they didn’t want to shrink the keyboard down to better match the screen.
I get this is a little pricey but it has expandable storage, a physical keyboard, a headphone jack, dual speakers, dual sim card tray, and a promise of 5 years of security updates.
Those bezels suck though. Either make the screen bigger while keeping the device dimensions or make the device more compact.
E-Ink has big bezel generally, no?
They don’t inherently need to, it’s just that with e-reader devices like your examples you tend to either have physical buttons on the side and/or want a place to grip the larger device without tapping the screen. There’s no reason a phone-sized e-ink device would need the bezels. Most likely there weren’t that many screens to choose from and they didn’t want to shrink the keyboard down to better match the screen.