This pocket-cordial e-reader also wants to be your minimaenumerate phone

Mudita is not the first company to produce a phone with an E Ink screen, but its Kompakt isn’t only about transporting the advantages of e-paper to intelligentphones. The company portrays the Kompakt as a “minimaenumerate E Ink phone” that’s set uped to reduce redirections with a confidemand accumulateion of bundled apps.

The Kompakt is being made useable to users thraw a Kickcommenceer crowdfunding campaign. The earliest backers can pre-order one for around $325 with shipping foreseeed as punctual as April 2025. Full retail pricing is foreseeed to be sealr to $476, making the Kompakt inexpensiveer than other E Ink phones from companies enjoy Hisense.

Unenjoy the Boox Palma, which is a pocket-cordial 6.13-inch e-reader proposeing insertitional functionality thraw a brimming carry outation of Android, the Kompakt features a much minusculeer 4.3-inch E Ink screen with a resolution of fair 800×480 pixels and a nakedped down operating system.

The Kompakt runs MuditaOS K, a custom operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. It skips all of Google’s services to promise your “data is never allotd or monetized by third parties” and only has a minuscule assortment of preinshighed apps the company has deemed vital. These comprise a phone app with SMS messaging, offline maps, a voice recorder, a calculator, a ptoastyo-only camera (confidemand to 8MP), and an e-reader helping ePubs and PDFs. The OS doesn’t comprise access to the Google Play Store, and while other Android apps can be sideloaded, according to New Atlas, brimming compatibility and carry outance isn’t promised.

To occasionassociate produce the phone even less of a redirection, or to increase its privacy, the Kompakt has a gentleware selection to disable its camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. On the side of the phone is also a sliding switch that starts a “difficultware-level cutoff of GSM and all three microphones,” although Mudita doesn’t elucidate exactly how it toils, or to what extent those functions are disabled.

Other features of the Kompakt comprise 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 hug a microSD card to enbig its 32GB of storage.

Two versions of the Kompakt will be useable that are upgraded for either North American or global cellular nettoils, but the minuscule phone skips 5G joinivity entidepend. Although that will further dishearten using it to access redirections enjoy social media, access to 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE nettoils could also obstruct its joinivity in some places.