The Bigme Hibreak Pro is the world's most potent E-ink smartphone. It destroys everything else on the market, which isn't saying much. The only other devices are the Bigme Hibreak BW and Hibreak Color, three-year-old Hisense phones, Minimalist Phone, and the Mudita Kompact. The big selling points are the 6.13-inch Carta 1200 display, which keeps things high resolution and page turns fast, the Dimensity Octa-core, 2.4GHz processor, and all the different speed modes. Hardware The HiBreak Pro comes with a 6.13-inch E INK Carta 1200 e-paper display with a resolution of 824 x 1648 and 300 PPI. The device’s color
The folks over at XDA have rooted the original Hibreak and are actively working on trying to reverse engineer the display drivers so they can install LineageOS. The person working on it right now has a good track record with other e-ink phones.
I wouldn’t pull any triggers until it’s released, but worth watching that activity.
I agree but in this case an unlocked bootloader is unlikely to help. These niche devices rarely get good roms
The folks over at XDA have rooted the original Hibreak and are actively working on trying to reverse engineer the display drivers so they can install LineageOS. The person working on it right now has a good track record with other e-ink phones.
I wouldn’t pull any triggers until it’s released, but worth watching that activity.
ETA: https://xdaforums.com/t/bigme-hibreak-root-mediatek-6765.4697830/page-7