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Some company made one once, back in the early 2010s. I think they released a successor the following year, but neither phone sold well enough to keep going. It would be cool as hell if that were more common, though.
YotoPhone. They also made a version 2 & 3. Unfortunately, Yota went bankrupt.
At the time they've been seen as a gimick, mostly because they were PRed by the government as our local invention and an iphone-killer it wasn't. That's a shame.
There's one active brand still making e-ink phones, both single and doubled screen. It's HiSense. The devices look pretty nice.