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Last week, Chinese tech firm Bigme teased an intriguing new addition to its lineup of e-readers and digital notebooks: the “world’s first” dual-screen smartphone, with both an e-ink and an LCD display on opposite sides of the device. I thought I had a pretty good idea of how that might work—but now, Bigme has revealed what the “Hibreak Dual” will actually look like, and it’s definitely not what I was expecting. Seeing it actually made me laugh out loud.
The e-ink side of the phone looks exactly like I anticipated, offering a 6.13-inch, 300 PPI black-and-white/150 PPI color e-ink display not unlike the one on the Boox Palma 2 Pro or Bigme’s own Hibreak Pro Color. It does support stylus input, which I wasn’t expecting, but instead of the full-screen rear LCD screen I was expecting, the back of the device has
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