Thread: I just don’t get it!
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:19 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by tomsheeley View Post
The best I can find is no color, poor formatting, and bare simple audio playback – all for even MORE then the palm costs. That's a LOT to give up for a bigger screen...
To give your Palm the same battery life while using all those capabilities would take a battery the size of a laptop. If you also made the screen the same size you'd have one of the new kids-laptop things but with a 5lb battery built in. It's all about the batteries... eink takes very little power and does what it does better than the alternatives right now. I'm sure that over time things will improve, but for now the choice is: fast refresh, high power consumption LCD or slow refresh, very low power consumption eink.

I wonder if we'll see a laptop or tablet with eink on one side and lcd on the other?
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