I really wanted a cheap e-ink phone with functional apps that didn't need speed screen refreshing. Really. I thought this was the phone I was waiting for, but it wasn't.

Too tough to push apps onto people.

That, and the refresh rates are still way too slow.

The refresh rates are fine unless you want to run apps, but that's precisely what makes them unappealing to manufacturers. App stores have become quite the revenue stream, and the people who want E-ink displays are, by and large, not buying into that revenue stream.