Most E Ink panels crawl, which is why the headline number on the Dasung Link 2 is its refresh rate: up to 60 Hz, fast enough to scroll, type, and even play video on a grayscale screen. The 6.7 inch display is a 300 ppi monochrome panel with an adjustable front light that supports both brightness and color temperature changes, and it can be switched off entirely to read by reflected ambient light alone. The catch is the usual one for high-refresh E Ink: pushing the panel hard enough for video introduces ghosting, tearing, and jitter, so the smoother modes trade away some image quality.
The Link 2 is not a phone or a standalone reader. It is a pocket-sized portable monitor that mirrors an existing handset, and the second-generation model drops the wired option in favor of wireless screen casting only. That means it leans on the casting stacks already built into mobile operating systems: AirPlay on iOS and Miracast on Android 12 and later, plus HarmonyOS. Dasung calls it "fully compatible with iPhones," though getting touch input to register requires enabling an iPhone accessibility setting first. Android coverage is more uneven. The company notes that handsets from Honor, OnePlus, and Samsung have "complex system environments" it does not support, and that features like casting with the phone screen off or full-screen gestures may depend on the device or on manual tweaks.
Dasung is a familiar name to anyone who has run an E Ink panel on a Linux desktop. Its larger Paperlike monitors connect as driverless plug-and-play USB-C or HDMI displays, and on Linux they operate in extended-display mode, making them a longtime favorite for distraction-free reading and writing setups. Community-developed tools extend that experience further: paperlike-go is a Go library and CLI utility that controls a Dasung Paperlike HD over I2C DDC, exposing refresh mode, dithering, contrast, and drawing speed from the command line, and paperlike-i2c covers the same family with a lighter C implementation. Both are available on GitHub, and paperlike-go has an AUR package for Arch users. The Link 2 takes a different route by riding standard wireless mirroring protocols rather than a custom driver, so its behavior depends far more on how well your phone's casting implementation cooperates than on any desktop OS.
The hardware itself is minimal. The aluminum unibody weighs 155 grams (5.5 ounces) and measures 171 x 87 x 7 mm (6.7 x 3.4 x 0.3 inches) at its thinnest point, with a built-in speaker and physical buttons for the front light, display settings, and power. There is no internal battery; a USB-C port takes power from any bank or adapter you already carry. The Link 2 is available now starting at $330 (300 euros), or $350 (320 euros) for a bundle that adds a 5,000 mAh battery, which Dasung says brings the combined weight to 260 grams (9.2 ounces), roughly that of a large phone.
