u/DaMentalis

I recently went on a vacation to the Bahamas and decided to take only a DJI action 6 with me. I have a Sony mirrorless camera but the humidity and the activities that I wanna do are far more suitable for an action camera.

Because I don't wanna waste your time if you don't want to read a lengthy review, here's my TLDR: it's a very very good action camera so long as you're willing to experiment with it first and learn how to use it. It's not very easy to get excellent footage right out of the box.

IMHO that's not necessarily a terrible thing, photography and videography in general require some practice, but a lot of the YouTube reviews mention the film sims as a reason why this is easier. The film sims are genuinely very very useful and can give you cinematic quality without having to do much tinkering in post, but you have to use them right! First off, not all of them are great (I found TR and WT to be the most useful). Plus you have to decide the intensity and that's not something a cheat sheet can tell you. It depends on what you're filming, the lighting, and even things like your skin tone or that any other people you're filming.

D Log m is probably the best idea if you want to get the most flexibility in post and the most dynamic range, but it requires the most tinkering. Though you can import a lot of excellent LUT presets from their cloud (I applied rec709 LUT to most of the videos that I recorded in D Log m and then did some manual adjustments for fine tuning).

Stabilization is terrific. I used horizon steady or Rock steady almost all of the time. I can't post videos and photos here unfortunately as Reddit won't let me, I'll link a video in the comments if you guys want. But I was constantly surprised (pleasantly) by now smooth the video is. Parasailing is probably the most challenging activity if you want smooth footage because it's not only the camera that's shaking, your entire body is constantly moving with the wind and the boat movement and it still did a very reasonable job stabilizing the video and that's in incredibly harsh lightning with one second the sun being behind you and then the boat turn and you're suddenly facing the sun. I was happy with the quality of the video and the stabilization.

You don't even need to put it in photo mode, you can take screenshots from a video and they turn up really good as long as you use the screenshot function from the mimo app.

You probably wanna change exposure, it does overexpose most of the time. I set it at -0.3 to 0.7 EV and that seems to be the sweet spot most of the time. When I was chasing that sea turtle we went down to about 2 meters and then came back up (as we both needed to breathe lol) and even at 2 meters down with much less light breaking through -0.3 EV seemed to be pretty good exposure. If you leave it at 0.0 it's very likely you'll end up with some blown out highlights.

The color temperature sensor on the front seems to improve things over the 5 pro, but it's not infallible! It still can get things slightly wrong sometimes, which is where D Log helps the most, but honestly most often it's not too bad and you can correct the colors even if you're filming in normal.

Battery life is epic, I seldom had to change batteries even on snorkeling trips where I was gone for several hours. You probably won't get 4 hours of constant recording unless you're recording at 1080p (which would be a terrible idea and waste most of the camera's potential) but you can get 2 to 3 hours. My experience falls somewhere in the middle of this range and I was recording at 4K 48 or 60 fps.

Underwater footage is the most difficult to color grade with any camera, as light behaves very differently underwater, and you'll probably still want to use a pink or red filter if you go below (or wanna film anything that's below) 2 meters but for snorkeling the color temperature sensor does a fine job. D Log m is probably a good idea underwater.

But yeah folks, pretty happy with this camera. It punches was above its size and price tag and delivers amazing quality footage if you practice with it before filming and learn which settings are the best for what you have in mind. It's definitely a keeper for when taking my Sony is a potential recipe for a ballistic repair bill lol. And this camera is highly recommend by me.

As usual, my goal isn't to waste your time. If you're looking for the TLDR then this is probably the best browser for E ink screens (especially monochrome ones), and I give it 8/10.

The simplicity and excellent reading modes are where this browser stands out. I love that you can invert colors per website, or even just force the background to change to white from whatever color it is. It's website specific and that is a huge pro because it means you don't need to fiddle with the global settings every now and again. Images load quickly and are fairly clear for an e ink. You can change how it renders images and text too. You can change text size per website or make it bold. Very neat!

It allows you to hide the system status bar altogether, and you can even replace it with a simple info bar that you can place at the bottom or top of the screen. That's very neat and helpful since you maximize the screen real estate when you're reading and cut down any distracting notifications.

The toolbar is customizable and that's a win for sure, the settings menu is well organized and not very confusing.

It's fairly fast, maybe not 100% as responsive as brave but the difference is tiny and probably not noticeable unless you test the same action back to back.

Cons:

1. Ad blocking, out of the box, is just not great. It has AdGuard core list but that's about it. It doesn't block trackers or certain elements and annoyances but that's easily fixable since it lets you add other lists thankfully. You can add easy privacy and easy list and something to catch more YouTube ads and then it gets damn near perfect.

2. Picture in picture mode sucks. I know this isn't a huge deal for e readers usually. But E ink sucks for watching videos and so the way I use YouTube is much like you'd listen to radio channels or podcasts. I listen to music or certain documentaries or story channels with the video playing in the bg. So far this browser can't do that, which is the main reason I still use brave a lot on my e ink devices. It should be easy for the Dev to fix so let's hope they see this. You can use Morphe or revanced I suppose but still, Brave and most other browsers can do it.

3. If we can change how images are rendered per website instead of as a browser setting that would be great.

Overall these aren't deal breakers, especially for things like news and reading or posting online. About the only really annoying one is video bg behavior. Otherwise this is about as good as it gets for E ink and I'll be using it 80% of the time with Brave there for YouTube and when I need extra privacy.

Been daily driving this Bigme Hibreak Pro BW for a while and I intend to keep it as my main phone for the foreseeable future. It's far from perfect, the software needs some work and the build quality is plastic, but that's not a deal breaker for me. Back in early to mid 2010s all phones were plastic basically. It doesn't rattle and it doesn't feel cheap and plastic means it's very durable.

Paired it with a basic custom launcher and tada! Don't need more than that!

Though I'm still excited to see how the Hisense A10 will be received and reviewed, even if I won't necessarily buy it.

Been daily driving this for a while and I intend to keep it as my main phone for the foreseeable future. It's far from perfect, the software needs some work and the build quality is plastic, but that's not a deal breaker for me. Back in early to mid 2010s all phones were plastic basically. It doesn't rattle and it doesn't feel cheap and plastic means it's very durable.

Paired it with a basic custom launcher and tada! Don't need more than that!

Though I'm still excited to see how the Hisense A10 will be received and reviewed, even if I won't necessarily buy it.

Edit; it's the Bigme Hibreak Pro BW if you're wondering.

I love my Bigme B7 and HiBreak pro devices. The bigger B7 is 7 inches and basically a better and more flexible Kindle Oasis with Android, uses kaleido 3 e ink display, while the Bigme is a 6.3 inch e ink phone with Android based on a Carta 1200 monochrome display.

No doom scrolling and support for everything from PDF to Kindle libby koreader epub etc. Boox devices are basically the same but from another manufacturer, they're equally great.

How about y'all?

I absolutely love this book and it's been a wakeup call for me. I already knew, as most of us do, that fast foods and processed foods aren't good for you and as such I try to limit my consumption but the rabbit hole goes much deeper than you think and what these companies are willing to do and sacrifice to keep turning a profit is frankly scary. Not gonna spoil much but it's very interesting and has dramatically changed my habits.

It's like 5 or 6 bucks on Amazon right now and very much worth it.

About a month ago I posted my initial take and a lot of people had questions, some of which couldn't be answered back then since I hadn't used the phone for long enough to know the answer. This is my verdict a month later.

If you need this to reduce your addiction to scrolling and social media and force yourself to spend more time in the moment, then yeah go for it. But if you don't care and just want something to read on then buy a dedicated reader.

I also strongly recommend AGAINST buying the color version. At that point you're buying a regular phone that can do almost everything your phone can do but much worse. So just buy a budget phone.

With a few caveats, this is the best E ink phone on the market, especially for the money. I can't really think of better options unless cellular connectivity doesn't matter to you.

It cost me 380 USD approximately. The lite phone is so overpriced that it genuinely feels like a money laundering scheme (it's almost twice the price as this one for the lite phone iii). I understand that it being very basic is the main point, but there's no good reason as to why it should cost iPad money. Being very basic should actually result in a much lower price. The Boox Palma 2 pro can't make calls and is more of an E reader than a phone, it doesn't even have NFC and it has half the storage space despite costing roughly the same or a bit more.

It's still not for everyone, and I doubt most people can get away with having this thing only and no other backup phone.

For one thing, it's black and white. At one point my gf sent me a pic of a sofa that she wanted to buy and asked me if I like it and I couldn't even answer because I couldn't see the colors. You can use Whatsapp but the check marks never get blue when the receipt reads your message cause it can't display blue (you can select the text and then details and Whatsapp will tell you if it's read but that's much more work). You never think about how color displays affect using your phone until you're limited to a monochrome display.

For another, you basically have no aftersales service whatsoever. If it breaks for whatever reason, they might tell you to take a hike, the staff is very poorly trained and it's very hard to reach them in the first place.

Here are a few more questions that you asked me.

- Can you use Google maps?

Yes, see pictures. The app works flawlessly and GPS is fairly accurate and you can even use voice search while you navigate. But remember that you have no colors, so you don't know which roads or parts of the road suffer a traffic jam.

- What about the camera?

See last 2 pics. It's actually surprisingly good for things like scanning documents and text but for anything more, the screen is just not designed for viewing or editing multimedia or pics, so it's hard to tell without sending pics to another device. And even then the camera quality is ok but not great. I mean you still have to remember it's a sub 400 USD phone. I'm going on vacation next month and I'll be taking another phone with me, simply because you can't rely on this you for photography.

- how's the screen for scrolling?

It's surprisingly good, and almost anything that's not gaming or consuming multimedia is very very good. The fact that it isn't good for gaming or watching YouTube videos is actually a good thing cause I wanna spend less time doing that. Also you have to have realistic expectations, an E ink display will never be as smooth as high end LCD and OLED/AMOLED.

- battery life?

So you can see in the pics above how battery life fairs throughout a typical day. I use it for navigation, reading eBooks, chatting, texting, calls, scanning a document or 2, reading news, listening to music etc.

I started the day with 100% at 7 30 am. By 6 pm I had 62% left, by 9 51 pm it was at 56%. Abiut 1.5 hours of GPS and music with the screen light on drained 13% because by 11 24 pm when I got back home I had 43% left. The next day I woke up to 33% or so left in the tank (overnight drain + some reading in bed and playing some bg music).

I call this kind of battery life very good, but again, just like with everything in life you have to keep your expectations reasonable. If you're expecting to charge this thing once a week like a Kindle you'll be disappointed, no android phone could last this long regardless of what screen it uses, nor would a Kindle if it didn't have very simple and bare bones software. The only reason Kindle devices last as long as they do is because they sacrifice a lot of functionality.

- Do NFC payments work?

Yes, even loyalty cards can be scanned from the screen in my experience.

- can you use Gemini?

Yes and I managed to get hey Google to work. There's a tiny bit of latency sometimes but it's nothing too bad.

- texting and call quality?

It's Android so any Android app works with the obvious limits of running on a screen that can't display colors. Call quality is fine on both ends but not great. I mean the speaker this thing has isn't flagship quality by any means but it works, and you can hear the caller and they hear you fine. Google keyboard works great and even swipe typing works well and is no less accurate than it is on any other phone. I use it with Rogers network in Canada though so it's always best to confirm your local carrier's network compatibility though I doubt it'll be a huge deal. I don't use it with a 5G plan though, and it would be silly to buy this for things that require 5G speeds anyways lol.

- is it durable/water resistant?

It's mostly plastic and lightweight and that means drops that would destroy an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy barely faze it (the heavier they are the harder they fall, and plastic tends to be more flexible than glass). It's not IP rated to my knowledge but I used it in rain without issues. Just don't submerge it.

- Do you recommend it?

If you want a reasonably priced minimal phone that still does the essentials that we need a phone for without the distractions? Yes, absolutely. You can use it to navigate, call, text, scan documents, and run essential apps (Whatsapp, messenger, banking apps, password vaults, music, etc). If you also would rather spend time reading books than scrolling social media then this is basically designed for you.

But if you don't care about unplugging and want a good regular smartphone that's also great for reading books? No. And don't try to combine the 2. E ink will never be as good as LCD or OLED for multimedia or photo editing or displaying motion so just get a regular budget phone and an e reader.

If you have a regular backup phone that you use every now and then when you wanna take pics (or if you have a point and shoot or interchangeable lens camera) and you use this most of the time to avoid doom scrolling then you're probably the kind of person most likely to benefit from it.

Also, I will repeat in case it wasn't clear the first time: do NOT expect any aftersales service! Bigme's aftersales is trash tier. They may or may not exchange a defective phone under warranty, and they take a while to get back to you, and their staff isn't even remotely close to being in the same Galaxy (pun intended) as Samsung or Apple when it comes to professionalism. They also have a 14 day return policy, so keep that in mind.

Personally I'm happy with the phone because it's not the end that I'm looking for, it's a means to an end which in my case is spending less time online and more time with my friends and family, working out, and enjoying my life. I also like reading and the screen, a Carta 1200, is probably the most suitable thing for reading on the market. I sometimes don't turn on the light even at night, instead using the warm light from my bedside lamp to illuminate the screen as if I'm reading a physical hard copy book, and I love that. It's far less disturbing to your sleep and far easier on your eyes.

About a month ago I posted my initial take and a lot of people had questions, some of which couldn't be answered back then since I hadn't used the phone for long enough to know the answer. This is my verdict a month later.

If you need this to reduce your addiction to scrolling and social media and force yourself to spend more time in the moment, then yeah go for it. But if you don't care and just want something to read on then buy a dedicated reader.

I also strongly recommend AGAINST buying the color version. At that point you're buying a regular phone that can do almost everything your phone can do but much worse. So just buy a budget phone.

With a few caveats, this is the best E ink phone on the market, especially for the money. I can't really think of better options unless cellular connectivity doesn't matter to you.

It cost me 380 USD approximately. The lite phone is so overpriced that it genuinely feels like a money laundering scheme (it's almost twice the price as this one for the lite phone iii). I understand that it being very basic is the main point, but there's no good reason as to why it should cost iPad money. Being very basic should actually result in a much lower price. The Boox Palma 2 pro can't make calls and is more of an E reader than a phone, it doesn't even have NFC and it has half the storage space despite costing roughly the same or a bit more.

It's still not for everyone, and I doubt most people can get away with having this thing only and no other backup phone.

For one thing, it's black and white. At one point my gf sent me a pic of a sofa that she wanted to buy and asked me if I like it and I couldn't even answer because I couldn't see the colors. You can use Whatsapp but the check marks never get blue when the receipt reads your message cause it can't display blue (you can select the text and then details and Whatsapp will tell you if it's read but that's much more work). You never think about how color displays affect using your phone until you're limited to a monochrome display.

For another, you basically have no aftersales service whatsoever. If it breaks for whatever reason, they might tell you to take a hike, the staff is very poorly trained and it's very hard to reach them in the first place.

Here are a few more questions that you asked me.

- Can you use Google maps?

Yes, see pictures. The app works flawlessly and GPS is fairly accurate and you can even use voice search while you navigate. But remember that you have no colors, so you don't know which roads or parts of the road suffer a traffic jam.

- What about the camera?

See last 2 pics. It's actually surprisingly good for things like scanning documents and text but for anything more, the screen is just not designed for viewing or editing multimedia or pics, so it's hard to tell without sending pics to another device. And even then the camera quality is ok but not great. I mean you still have to remember it's a sub 400 USD phone. I'm going on vacation next month and I'll be taking another phone with me, simply because you can't rely on this you for photography.

- how's the screen for scrolling?

It's surprisingly good, and almost anything that's not gaming or consuming multimedia is very very good. The fact that it isn't good for gaming or watching YouTube videos is actually a good thing cause I wanna spend less time doing these things. Also you have to have realistic expectations, an E ink display will never be as smooth as high end LCD and OLED/AMOLED.

- battery life?

So you can see in the pics above how battery life fairs throughout a typical day. I use it for navigation, reading eBooks, chatting, texting, calls, scanning a document or 2, reading news, listening to music etc.

I started the day with 100% at 7 30 am. By 6 pm I had 62% left, by 9 51 pm it was at 56%. Abiut 1.5 hours of GPS and music with the screen light on drained 13% because by 11 24 pm when I got back home I had 43% left. The next day I woke up to 33% or so left in the tank (overnight drain + some reading in bed and playing some bg music).

I call this kind of battery life very good, but again, just like with everything in life you have to keep your expectations reasonable. If you're expecting to charge this thing once a week like a Kindle you'll be disappointed, no android phone could last this long regardless of what screen it uses, nor would a Kindle if it didn't have very simple and bare bones software. The only reason Kindle devices last as long as they do is because they sacrifice a lot of functionality.

- Do NFC payments work?

Yes, even loyalty cards can be scanned from the screen in my experience.

- can you use Gemini?

Yes and I managed to get hey Google to work. There's a tiny bit of latency sometimes but it's nothing too bad.

- texting and call quality?

It's Android so any Android app works with the obvious limits of running on a screen that can't display colors. Call quality is fine on both ends but not great. I mean the speaker this thing has isn't flagship quality by any means but it works, and you can hear the caller and they hear you fine. Google keyboard works great and even swipe typing works well and is no less accurate than it is on any other phone. I use it with Rogers network in Canada though so it's always best to confirm your local carrier's network compatibility though I doubt it'll be a huge deal. I don't use it with a 5G plan though, and it would be silly to buy this for things that require 5G speeds anyways lol.

- is it durable/water resistant?

It's mostly plastic and lightweight and that means drops that would destroy an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy barely faze it (the heavier they are the harder they fall, and plastic tends to be more flexible than glass). It's not IP rated to my knowledge but I used it in rain without issues. Just don't submerge it.

- Do you recommend it?

If you want a reasonably priced minimal phone that still does the essentials that we need a phone for without the distractions? Yes, absolutely. You can use it to navigate, call, text, scan documents, and run essential apps (Whatsapp, messenger, banking apps, password vaults, music, etc). If you also would rather spend time reading books than scrolling social media then this is basically designed for you.

But if you don't care about unplugging and want a good regular smartphone that's also great for reading books? No. And don't try to combine the 2. E ink will never be as good as LCD or OLED for multimedia or photo editing or displaying motion so just get a regular budget phone and an e reader.

If you have a regular backup phone that you use every now and then when you wanna take pics (or if you have a point and shoot or interchangeable lens camera) and you use this most of the time to avoid doom scrolling then you're probably the kind of person most likely to benefit from it.

Also, I will repeat in case it wasn't clear the first time: do NOT expect any aftersales service! Bigme's aftersales is trash tier. They may or may not exchange a defective phone under warranty, and they take a while to get back to you, and their staff isn't even remotely close to being in the same Galaxy (pun intended) as Samsung or Apple when it comes to professionalism. They also have a 14 day return policy, so keep that in mind.

Personally I'm happy with the phone because it's not the end that I'm looking for, it's a means to an end which in my case is spending less time online and more time with my friends and family, working out, and enjoying my life. I also like reading and the screen, a Carta 1200, is probably the most suitable thing for reading on the market. I sometimes don't turn on the light even at night, instead using the warm light from my bedside lamp to illuminate the screen as if I'm reading a physical hard copy book, and I love that. It's far less disturbing to your sleep and far easier on your eyes.

She's a hybrid burmese python, Mainland X Porgschai. 3 to 3.5 feet at 11 months old. Can be expected to reach 7 to 10 feet, a very wide range depending on how much mainland genes she gets. Which adds a mystery box element to growing and raising her.

She's sweet and easy to tame down like your typical burm. Stunning snakes, can't think of a snake I like better. Though large boas come close.

She's a hybrid between a mainland burm and an island dwarf burm. About 3.5 feet long at 1 year old. Breeder said her mom (both of her parents are F1 half dwarf snakes) is 8 feet long and 35 to 40 pounds. Mine should be anywhere from 7 to 9 feet long and 30 to 45 pounds (from the breeder's experience). There's a mystery box factor here lol cause her final size depends on how much mainland influence she has. She's definitely on the bigger side for her age cause pure porgschai are 5.5 feet long as an adult and she's already 65% of that in her first year.

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But regardless, the best part remains the same! Burmese python feeding response and awesomeness in a much more manageable package. 40 pounds is probably the perfect big snakes for most people where at most you'll need jumbo rats or medium size rabbits but nothing crazy.

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Can't wait to watch her grow!

About 3.5 feet long at 1 year old. Breeder said her mom (both of her parents are F1 half dwarf snakes) is 8 feet long and 35 to 40 pounds. Mine should be anywhere from 7 to 9 feet long and 30 to 45 pounds (from the breeder's experience). There's a mystery box factor here lol cause her final size depends on how much mainland influence she has. She's definitely on the bigger side for her age cause pure porgschai are 5.5 feet long as an adult and she's already 65% of that in her first year.

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But regardless, the best part remains the same! Burmese python feeding response and awesomeness in a much more manageable package. 40 pounds is probably the perfect big snakes for most people where at most you'll need jumbo rats or medium size rabbits but nothing crazy.

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Can't wait to watch her grow!

She's very alert and still a bit nippy but she's 2 months old so that was my expectation. I'm doing a handling session of 1 hour every couple days for now and she's already much calmer. She's also pretty big for her age, roughly 23 inches or so.

Amazing colors and patterns. She's close to a wild type morph and that's better for me cause I want my animals as close to what they look like in the wild as possible.

Great appetite too! I heard some stories about young boas being a bit finicky after rehousing, but happily mine ate like 5 days after being put in her new enclosure.

For now she's in a 3.5 x 2 x 1.5. when she's 1.5 years old or so I'll move her to a 6 x 2 x 2. I'll try to get an enclosure that's a bit taller, 6 x 2 x 4 would be ideal but we'll have to see if I can get my hands on one like that.

I heard they frequently reach 7 feet long? Breeder said expect 7 to 8 feet. Personally the bigger the better. I got the space and I'm 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds so can handle such a snake. I feel like this is the perfect size pet for me. I don't want a Burmese python but I also don't want a corn snake. A boa is probably the best middle ground that exists. And they're very heavily bodied as adults (I handled her mother, it felt like a bit of a workout lol).

I'm probably one of the newest keepers here but I know beginners like myself come here all the time. I would say they're not the best for a beginner unless you're not on a tight budget. The snake itself cost me about twice as much as a wild morph corn snake, which isn't saying much considering those are dirt cheap, but the costs add up fast. Even this first baby enclosure cost me about 300 to 350 USD (with substrate, RHP, thermostat, 2 hides, 1 large water bowl, a thermometer gun, and a hygrometer). Her permanent enclosure will easily cost me a grand with all the bells and whistles. Probably more.

But the snake is a delight. Like I said I'm a big guy and handling the adult version wasn't a passive ball python kind of experience for me, so I'm pretty sure wrestling a 7 foot long snake as thick as your calves will be no picnic if you're 5 foot 6 and 160 pounds so I guess this is a factor too. But I know a pet shop clerk who has one and she's tiny so who knows.. they're most delightful and once socialized properly and have gained some size and confidence will probably be lovely.

She's very alert and still a bit nippy but she's 2 months old so that was my expectation. I'm doing a handling session of 1 hour every couple days for now and she's already much calmer. She's also pretty big for her age, roughly 23 inches or so.

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Amazing colors and patterns. She's close to a wild type morph and that's better for me cause I want my animals as close to what they look like in the wild as possible.

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Great appetite too! I heard some stories about young boas being a bit finicky after rehousing, but happily mine ate like 5 days after being put in her new enclosure.

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For now she's in a 3.5 x 2 x 1.5. when she's 1.5 years old or so I'll move her to a 6 x 2 x 2. I'll try to get an enclosure that's a bit taller, 6 x 2 x 4 would be ideal but we'll have to see if I can get my hands on one like that.

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I heard they frequently reach 7 feet long? Breeder said expect 7 to 8 feet. Personally the bigger the better. I got the space and I'm 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds so can handle such a snake. I feel like this is the perfect size pet for me. I don't want a Burmese python but I also don't want a corn snake. A boa is probably the best middle ground that exists. And they're very heavily bodied as adults (I handled her mother, it felt like a bit of a workout lol).

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I'm probably one of the newest keepers here but I know beginners like myself come here all the time. I would say they're not the best for a beginner unless you're not on a tight budget. The snake itself cost me about twice as much as a wild morph corn snake, which isn't saying much considering those are dirt cheap, but the costs add up fast. Even this first baby enclosure cost me about 300 to 350 USD (with substrate, RHP, thermostat, 2 hides, 1 large water bowl, a thermometer gun, and a hygrometer). Her permanent enclosure will easily cost me a grand with all the bells and whistles. Probably more.

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But the snake is a delight. Like I said I'm a big guy and handling the adult version wasn't a passive ball python kind of experience for me, so I'm pretty sure wrestling a 7 foot long snake as thick as your calves will be no picnic if you're 5 foot 6 and 160 pounds so I guess this is a factor too. But I know a pet shop clerk who has one and she's tiny so who knows.. they're most delightful and once socialized properly and have gained some size and confidence will probably be lovely.

Edit: This is the Bigme Hibreak Pro B & W

I'll make this quick and cut to the chase.

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If you:

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- Like reading

- Want to reduce your addiction to tech, scrolling, social media etc

- Don't need to use the camera often

- Want great battery life

- Don't want to do any serious multimedia consumption on your phone

- Don't mind a plastic phone.

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Then this is for you.

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Otherwise it's not. Just the reality of having an E ink screen. But it's still an android phone. Reading the news, eBooks, magazines, anything like that is such a treat on this thing and you have access to possibly the biggest app library on the planet. Any kind of eBook that I could think of works flawlessly.

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The screen is epic, and the refresh rate is great for e ink, build quality is obviously plastic so not the best but still very good and feels great in the hand. Weight is light enough without feeling cheap. And it'll survive falls that'll turn your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy ultra into an over-engineered paperweight (pun intended).

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Customizable side buttons are a massive plus, and even Google Gemini works fine but I couldn't trigger it with voice. I don't like the stock launcher neither so switched to Niagara. Speaker is good but not great, call quality is pretty good, and the microphone record quality is fine.

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I like it. I won't sell or throw away my regular smartphone but this will be my daily driver now. Let's see how it goes. I'll report again soon if I find anything new.