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Old 05-14-2013, 01:17 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by RZetlin View Post
Another article on the Amazon and Liquidvista sale.

Don't hold your breath for a Kindle with a color screen any time soon
As they point out, it takes time to take technology and turn it into commercial products. It took two years for the Touchoco tech buy (from 2010) to show up in the Paperwhite, alone with the frontlight tech from Modilis.
Even Mobipocket, which was a going concern, took two years to show up in the first Kindle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/te...ders.html?_r=0

Besides, it's too late for a Liquavista Kindle to show up this year.
Even if they have a workable design, there are no signs that anybody on the planet is ready to build them even at low volume, much less at the rates Amazon would need.

The likeliest scenario is that this fall we will see a Paperwhite 2 with better lighting, audio, and possibly a higher-resolution screen and that by late 2014 they'll ship limited quantities of a premium-priced ($200+) Kindle LQV.
It will most likely be 2015 before we see a reasonably-priced color Kindle in the volume necessary to make a splash in the market.

And Amazon is fine with that; Bezos plays a long game, not quarter-to-quarter.
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