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Old 04-16-2013, 01:50 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by afv011 View Post
I don't think the screen will matter at all. Today's phones can drive a 1080p screen at 60Hz (16ms refresh rates). That's at least 1 order of magnitude faster than eInk, so there's no reason to assume page turns will be slower simply because the screen has more pixels, the bandwidth required to refresh the screen at such low refresh rates couldn't overwhelm the simplest of mobile GPUs in today's mobile chipsets.
It was my understanding that GPU is not involved at all in eInk display handling. If I am not mistaken, most of the linux based readers use frame buffer, manipulating the pixels directly from the software.
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