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Old 09-29-2011, 10:26 AM   #14
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by mewmartigan View Post
Part of the problem is that e-ink doesn't really advance like some other technologies. I think until color e-ink comes out, the Pearl is as good as it gets.
Here's a Kindle-friendly link to a long Business Week Jeff Bezos profile touching on this:

http://tinyurl.com/43e6vkp

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For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. New color display technologies like Qualcomm’s Mirasol and another MIT IT-offshoot called Pixel Qi proved unreliable and difficult to produce in large quantities.
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