Bigme is lining up a smartphone that tries to have it both ways: a color E Ink display for reading and battery-friendly use, plus a conventional IPS screen for everything else. The new HiBreak Dual is being positioned as the company’s first dual-display phone, and if Bigme can keep the E Ink panel responsive enough, it could be a neat answer to the ”one device, two moods” problem that most phones pretend does not exist.
The company has not disclosed the screen sizes or any other display specifications yet. But the E Ink panel may simply mirror the one in the recently launched Hibreak Plus: a 6.13-inch Kaleido 3 screen with 300 pixels per inch and a 52 Hz refresh rate. That’s still niche territory, but it is also the sort of spec sheet that makes sense if you want a phone that can double as an e-reader without completely abandoning the rest of modern smartphone life.
What Bigme has confirmed so far
- Model name: HiBreak Dual
- Displays: color E Ink plus IPS
- Possible E Ink spec: Kaleido 3, 6.13 inches, 300 ppi, 52 Hz
- Launch timing: not announced
Bigme says this is the first smartphone with this exact combination, though dual-screen phones are hardly new. The twist is the E Ink layer: most earlier attempts paired an ordinary display with a monochrome e-paper panel, which is useful but far less ambitious. Color E Ink is better suited to mainstream phones on paper, even if the trade-off is still very much ”reading device first, speed demon second.”
Price is also the part that will decide whether this is a clever experiment or a very expensive curiosity. Hibreak Plus costs $250, so the HiBreak Dual is almost certainly going to land higher. The bigger question is whether Bigme can turn dual displays into a real selling point, or whether buyers will decide they’d rather carry one good phone and one good e-reader and call it a day.
Bigme HiBreak Dual price and positioning
If Bigme gets the software right, this could carve out a useful little corner of the market: commuters, heavy readers, and people tired of fighting glare on bright screens. If it gets the price wrong, the HiBreak Dual becomes one more gadget that sounds smarter in a launch teaser than it does in a shopping cart. My guess? Bigme knows that too.