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Nice article markbot. I also have to say I'm becoming a little disillusioned with Mirasol. In terms of a black & white eReader the 6" screen is great because it is roughly the same size as a paperback. However, this is too small for a color device. Paper based media that displays color images tend to be much larger. They tend to be magazines, textbooks, cookbooks, books displaying art, etc. and an eReader with a 10" screen is far more appropriate. Yet the article from CNET indicates that Qualcomm has no intention of producing a large screen version for at least a year. The article also mentions that there doesn't seem to be much progress from what was displayed last year, no product using the screens was being announced, and there wasn't even a Mirasol booth as it was just lumped in with the Qualcomm booth. I guess I was expecting a little more. I'm also starting to fear that I smell the whiff of Plastic Logic.
I remember when I read about Mirasol last year and I envisioned that by this year's CES they would be displaying a 10" eReader, maybe using the Android operating system, and with the potential to work as a Tablet. I envisioned that not all the kinks would be worked out, but that by the end of 2011 or start of 2012 they would have something I couldn't wait to get my hands on. Like I said, I'm a little disappointed.
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