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Originally Posted by HansTWN
They really don't have to, they won't expect to sell more than a few 100,000 units, anyway --- and don't expect this to cost less than $3-400. And unless Samsung brings a tablet with electro-wetting display to market by then all the others will still just be some variation of LCD/LED, so there is no real competition for a device like this. And this device will never competitive with regular tablets in the eyes of those who don't care about e-ink. Let us hope Amazon does something similar, then prices will come down to a reasonable level.
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Agree, 95%.
But you're off by an order of magnitude on the sales volume.
At its likely price of US$300+ they'll be lucky to move 100K per year. And that is *if* they get some more government pilots. Without them...
I'm not sure it'll show up much further west than Kiev...
As Harry said, it's not really color eink--they're still using b&W electrophoretic film--and that is why they have saturation problems. The front light should help with contrast but the thing is still going to (literally) pale before much cheaper LCD. Without plastic substrate to let them target the K-6 education market the image quality is going to limit its uses.
Alas.