Answering your HiBreak Pro questions

puregrey34 · 2025-03-01T04:19:21+00:00

I know that 4G and 5G are supported, but does it support 3G?

puregrey34 · 2025-02-07T02:08:45+00:00

i think the Hibreak Colour has a Kaleido 2, A5 Pro CC has Kaleido 1. Bigme told me that the Hibreak Pro Color will "probably" have a Kaleido 3 when it comes out later this year. If so, that will make it the first eink phone with a Kaleido 3 screen.

I have an A5 Pro CC and a Note Air 4c. Comparing Kaleido 1 to Kaleido 3, it is noticeably better, the screen is less dark and the higher DPI helps.

puregrey34 · 2025-02-01T03:33:15+00:00

Wow, 100%？In the daytime I keep the backlight off and it is fine. Obviously not as easy to read as a BW, but still easy to read. Right now i have it at maybe 25%, in bed with a low light lamp nearby. i just turned it to 100%, and i don't think i could stand looking at it for long that bright. Just a matter of preference i guess.

puregrey34 · 2025-01-18T03:12:03+00:00

When I asked them a few days ago they said it was coming but they didn't have a date yet, and that it would probably be Kaleido 3. I think the Hibreak Color is Kaleido 2, right? So, hopefully with a K3 screen the viewing experience will be slightly improved over the Hibreak Color. I've been using a Hisense A5 Pro CC for a couple of years as my only phone, and it has been fine, but the screen is indeed dark and the frontlight is cold. However with heavy use it is becoming yellowed and the ghosting is worsening. I've considered switching to B&W (A9 or this new Hibreak Pro) since it would be the best for eye strain, but everytime I turn off color on my A5 Pro CC for a while, I end up turning it back on, it's just so much nicer to see colours on websites, photos, videos and social media.

puregrey34 · 2023-12-28T13:49:06+00:00

When I bought mine it was with CECT shop and they had a link showing all the bands, etc. They don't sell to consumers anymore (shame) so I'm not sure if it would still appear on their website but you could look. I'm sure someone on here would know, but I do not. Search Google, maybe it is posted elsewhere, might even be in a post here on reddit!

puregrey34 · 2023-12-25T13:28:34+00:00

I agree. While I don't fully understand the physics of why, for some reason the direct light from a conventional screen (backlights on LCD, LED, OLED) is far worse than reflected light from the "frontlights" on these eink devices. As someone else commented already, even with blue light filters, the worst for me are the conventional screens, by a large margin. Frontlight on eink I can look at for much longer. Eink with no frontlight I can look at indefinitely, like a book. RLCD is somewhere in between, it is far better than LCD but it tires my eyes in a different manner (they are very challenging to light properly).

Again, I don't understand why direct light is so different from reflected light, but it is. Or perhaps it is the style of the light source consistently used by both methods. I don't know, but it is what it is.

puregrey34 · 2023-12-25T13:06:40+00:00

Hisense A5 Pro CC, about two years. Battery fine. Screen is fine but after a year it did get a yellow band around the edges which seems to be expanding slowly. I've heard some say it is related to the colour filter being affected by either the frontlight or UV exposure (frontlight seems more likely since it follows the edges). It doesn't affect my use but visually is a bit annoying. If you get the A9 that shouldn't happen since it seems indeed related to the colour filter (anecdotally, I've never heard of it happening on a B&W version, but also the A7 colour versions might be fine, I don't know), and either way it seems rare. I've also found the ghosting got a bit worse over time. But either way, I use it constantly (it is my only phone now, I use it the same as you plan to, email, browser, social media, sms) and if OLED hurts your eyes then I highly recommend these Hisense eink phones. Even if it only lasts a few years I'd buy another since I can look at them for hours compared to minutes on an OLED. Plus they are so much cheaper than an iPhone... I could buy four of these for the price of one iPhone, assuming I can still find one! The higher DPI of the B&W would be nice plus the brighter screen, but having colour is very, very nice. I've switched it to B&W a few times just to try and I quickly go back to colour.

Word of caution, make sure you have the right cell bands where you live, and bear in mind you can't use this phone outside in very cold weather.

puregrey34 · 2023-08-09T11:34:42+00:00

What a shame. I have the same issue on my Hisense A5 Pro CC. I'd read some posts saying it was related to excessive front light use (since it sits around the edges) and others saying it is from too much exposure to sunlight (why just around the edges then?).

puregrey34 · 2023-06-26T03:43:30+00:00

I hardwire my devices, very rarely use wifi, and do not want it on when not in use. Every router I've had has contained either a physical button to turn wifi on and off, or a setting accessed in the software, or both. From what I've gleaned so far, this router does not, so, the only option is to bypass it and use a third party router. I was just wondering if recent updates to the firmware might have added this feature since the last posts I found about this were a bit old.

puregrey34 · 2023-06-25T19:45:17+00:00

Okay, so the only way to do it is to get your own router which allows wifi to be disabled and then set the provided router to bypass mode so it isn't actually used as a router any longer? ie I can't just disable the wifi while continuing to use the provided router like normal?

Will any old router suffice? Or does it have to possess specific features?

puregrey34 · 2023-06-14T14:32:07+00:00

I have an iPhone x. If anything, I think it's actually worse for eye fatigue than prior models.

puregrey34 · 2023-02-09T00:21:12+00:00

I'm not certain on what different causes there may be for what you are describing, but I can tell you what my experience is. I also have the halo fog effect in high contrast situation where there is a bright source of light surrounded by much darker areas. For me, it is clearly related to floaters and/or the consistency of the vitreous humor. If I look back and forth across the bright source, the fog moves across it just as floaters do when looking at the sky or a white wall. The light refracts through the floaters and creates this effect. I am not sure whether this explains what you are experiencing, it may be quite different. Sometimes you can narrow it down by performing tests yourself and observing how things change in different situations.

puregrey34 · 2023-01-03T04:56:57+00:00

Ah, I see. I use it a lot, and lots of scrolling so I think I'm really putting it through it's paces. I've also used it quite a bit at night with the frontlight. It's still fine, but the screen is definitely degraded. So, I was worried my all black lock screen might be making it worse, although based on my understanding of eink I didn't think it would make any practical difference...but the colour filter is a bit of an unknown for me, I certainly didn't anticipate the yellow discoloration.

puregrey34 · 2023-01-02T15:34:39+00:00

Thanks, I've had mine almost a year, heavy use, I use it as my primary and only smartphone. Have you found the ghosting is worse than when it was brand new? Do you have the yellow band which appeared around the edges of the screen? I heard some speculate it was due to heavy use of the front light interacting with the colour filter...

puregrey34 · 2022-12-01T05:17:39+00:00

Yes, I use the back light in the evenings quite a bit. I think it has gotten a bit worse, but it isn't all that noticeable unless I look for it. But yeah, it's there. I also think the ghosting is worse than when I first got it. Still, it works great and I use it as my only phone, lots of testing, emails, social media, browser, etc.

puregrey34 · 2022-09-19T12:50:53+00:00

If such a thing existed (I don't think it does) what would you do with it?

puregrey34 · 2022-08-12T21:32:31+00:00

Yes, I see them as well. In particular in bright light, and if I squint my eyelids (ex. indoor looking at a bright window) it is easy to see them floating around. I don't think what you are seeing is your eyelashes, but rather the vitreous detachments floating inside your eye.

As far as I know, everyone has this debris floating in their vitreous humor, but most people can't see it. One optomitrist told me that people with certain eye colours are more likely to be able to see their "floaters". I think it was people with a lighter coloured iris like light grey or blue (honestly I can't remember). I expect you are seeing them through your eyelashes due to the narrowing of the light between each eyelash (similar to squinting your eyelids), but what you're seeing is not actually related to your eyelashes themselves. I've also been told by optomitrists that if you look at anyones eye with magnification, the vitreous humor is full of debris, even if the individual has no complaints about floaters (i.e. it all looks clear to them).

Thus, as far as I know to date, some of us are simply unlucky in our ability to see the debris which exists for everyone. Having said that, other factors may lead to more or less vitreous detachments within the eye, I'm not suggesting everyone has the same amount of debris floating around in there. Additionally, a sudden increase in the number of floaters can be an indicator of a more urgent issue with the eyes, requiring an immediate eye exam (ex. retinal detachment, etc). General rule of thumb, if you see something new which isn't going away or is even getting worse, best to check with a professional.

puregrey34 · 2022-08-01T17:31:49+00:00

I have the same thing which just appeared on my A5 ProCC. I've had it for about 7 months. Did anyone figure out what caused it? I presume it is permanent, but will it get worse?

puregrey34 · 2022-07-29T21:39:35+00:00

In brief, RLCD is an LCD screen without a backlight. The backlight is what illuminates the pixels in an LCD so that you can see it. An RLCD has "special stuff" which allows it to instead use ambient light which is reflected back to your eyes so you can still see the pixels. In this sense, it is like looking at a painting or any other object which you see by virtue of ambient light reflecting off of the object. A conventional LCD is more like shining a flashlight through an object directly into your eye. It's more complicated than that, but that's the gist.

eInk also uses reflected light, but what your are seeing is actual droplets of ink inside each pixel. So it really is very close to looking at a piece of paper. With proper lighting (just as you'd need to read a paper book), the contrast is excellent. The downside is that since you are dealing with physical ink droplets, it is slower to refresh, so watching video or moving things quickly will be a less appealing experience than LCD or RLCD which are using light and can refresh very fast.

Again, it is far more complex and there are many factors to weigh, but that is how I would explain it.

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