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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i hate the backlighting and wish i could turn it off completely
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can turn the backlight off completely, and the screen is still readable. I typically set contrast at the second space in "Accept these changes?" and brightness at the start of 'these', but I've run it at zero brightness and found the display readable. It's dark, of course, and without backlight reflections become more of an issue, but given reasonable external lighting and careful angling I can read with no problem.
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i find it much more comfortable to read in ambiant light with a lamp, than in a dark room
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Contrarily, I find it cozy to read in the dark, without having to waste power on room lights.
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OLPC screen is the one in the One Laptop Per Child computer. At 4.5x6.0 inches it can fit a slighty-wider ETI-2 unit, and at 200 dpi it's sharper than any e-ink screen. People who've seen both say that in purely reflective mode OLPC looks better, both for its sharper letters and its whiter background. E-ink is good for two things: purely reflective viewing and low-power. OLPC isn't as low power, but it does reflective more sharply and can do color, which seems a better combo to me.
Pixel Qi plans on commercializing the OLPC screen soon.