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Would someone be able to explain if there are 2 new technologies involved here? 1, carta the film and 2, regal, the wave form. Thanks.
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09-04-2013, 12:21 PM | #21 |
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No doubt eInk technology will continue to get better. My question is whether the lighting technology on the PW2 is any better. I hope so, but I'm extremely skeptical. It looks like they are using the same kind of light layer which will be prone to blobs and shadows.
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09-04-2013, 12:39 PM | #23 |
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That is correct. Carta is the eInk film and Regal is the wave form technology that supposedly makes complete page refreshes less necessary than before.
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09-04-2013, 12:43 PM | #24 |
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I wonder if the Kobo Aura HD uses the same kind of light substrate/layer? Too bad it is a Kobo though, that translates into a firmware fiasco! I'll never go with another Kobo again. That was the suckiest FW I've ever seen, and the harder they tried to correct it the worse it got. Maybe if Amazon bought Kobo they could use the Kobo engineers to design better hardware and use Kindle engineers to design the FW. Might be a good match!
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The Kobo does use some kind of light guide layer, but I don't know if it's exactly the same. I know what you mean about the Kobo firmware. If I could run Amazon's firmware on the Aura HD it'd be a lot better for me.
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If I was one of the companies compating against the Kindle Paperwhite, I'd be hopping mad.
It looks as if Amazon had exclusive access to Carta, the latest version of E Ink e-paper. Why else would everyone else, like Sony or Kobo, go with the older Pearl technology for their upcoming E Ink readers? |
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Good point. Michael Serbinis, Kobo CEO, told CNet that Carta wasn't ready for mass production.
Still though, Carta isn't a make-or-break for me, or, likely, for Kobo. More important, I think, is Regal, and from Kobo's marketing for the new Aura it looks like the Aura has Regal. |
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