Very curious to hear experiences from anyone who has one of Hisense's e-ink phones. I recently bought a Boox android e-reader in this form factor, but I was eyeing this phone!
I have a HiSense HiReader Pro that I picked up right when it came out. It's absolutely loaded with nonsense + makes zillions of requests to Chinese IPs and it takes ages to figure out how to disable / block it all.
It also only works on a single GSM band in the US (which to be fair, I knew before I bought it), but I was hoping that single band would be usable.
I went back to using a Kindle because the experience is so much better all around. Vaguely intrigued by the new Boox Palma though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvO9ScTdwz8
It's the Hisense A9 with a beautiful and fast Carta 1200 e ink display. It's very capable, I would have preferred a phone more like that instead. It's biggest drawback is terrible USA cell reception. This company was initially going to make a phone like this but apparently keyboards were much more popular in polls.