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it does not say the daylight readable LCD is NEW...transflective LCD panels have been around for quite some time now. In fact my Clie and many other PDA have used them for a decade or so in many models in a product family. It is just the transflective LCD panels have been expensive probably due to low investment in production lines as well as the almost complete disappearance of the PDA from the face of the earth. I believe there are some Panasonic Toughbooks which use transflective LCD's and a few other laptop makers as well. I suspect they are a natural competitive tech for EPD panels such as the Eink brand panels as well as the PixelQi line of panels.
It's, as you intimate, a great thing to see all of these options start to enter wide use. Fun times are coming this next year...
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