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This pocket-friendly e-reader also wants to be your minimalist phone

This phone wants you to spend more time touching grass.

Unlike the Boox Palma, which is a pocket-friendly 6.13-inch e-reader offering additional functionality through a full implementation of Android, the Kompakt features a much smaller 4.3-inch E Ink screen with a resolution of just 800x480 pixels and a stripped down operating system. These include a phone app with SMS messaging, offline maps, a voice recorder, a calculator, a photo-only camera (limited to 8MP), and an e-reader supporting ePubs and PDFs. Other features of the Kompakt include a 3,300mAh battery the company says will provide up to six days of standby time, an IP54-rating, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a fingerprint reader, NFC, wireless charging, and a dual SIM tray that can also accept a microSD card to expand its 32GB of storage.

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