Hisense teases a new E Ink smartphone

In 2022, the Hisense A9 was announced as an Android smartphone with an E Ink display. Three years later, Hisense released a variant with more RAM and double the storage of the original. Now, report of a true successor has begun circulating.

The new model is said to be called the Hisense A10, and a teaser image alongside some key specifications have been revealed. According to reports, the A10 will have a larger display than the A9 — A 7-inch Carta 1300 E Ink display with a 300 PPI, to be precise. The Hisense A9 has a 6.1-inch Carta 1200 E Ink display.

The Hisense A10 is reported to be powered by an unnamed quad-core processor with Cortex-A35 cores. It has also been stated that the device has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Considering the Hisense A9 is powered by the Snapdragon 662 chipset which is an octa-core processor with CPU cores based on the Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A53 cores, a quad-core processor with significantly weaker CPU cores for the Hisense A10 is definitely an error.

Other reported specifications include a camera that can record in 4K with HDR support, dual-SIM support with 5G, Bluetooth 5.1, and a 4,500mAh battery capacity which is a notable increase from the 4,000mAh battery of the previous generation. There's no mention of the version of Android it will ship with.

Hisense itself hasn't shared any details of the device, so the information above should be taken with a grain of salt. However, if an earlier report from last December is to be believed, the Hisense A10 is scheduled for release in mid-2026, so we can expect an official announcement soon.