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Originally Posted by geekmaster
The current color EINK technology is just the black and white eink we are familiar with, with a color filter overlay on the screen to tint the white particles under it. Because this blocks a significant amount of light (absorbed by the color filters), it will never have saturation anywhere near what you get from light-emitting displays (LCD, CRT, OLED, or plasma).
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Its other major issue is that it halves the linear resolution of the display, because each colour "pixel" on the screen is actually a 2x2 block of four pixels on the actual device, so a screen with a "native" resolution of 200dpi becomes only 100dpi with the colour filter.