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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There's no refresh rate. When displaying a static image, the water droplets just stay in position, held by a constant electric field. They don't flicker on and off.
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It's actually oil droplets, coloured oil droplets, as far as I 've read on the implementation of the technology.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It will have to.
Nobody is making them in volume and pricing is a function of volume.
Look to the pricing of the Kobo Aura, which is built off the first batch of a new eink screen, for what an initial Liquavista might cost *at best*. At worst, it might run over $300, like the Kyobo Mirasol reader did at launch.
Hopefully, Liquavista will perform a lot better than Mirasol.
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Just a couple of days ago mirasol came up with, qualcomm that is, with a 500 ppi screen (!!!!) on a mock up mobile phone and they were showing it around. The idiots at engadget commented that the image didn't really pop as lcds do (that's the whole point, they don't pop because they don't have bright light shone from bellow) and missed the point of the screens altogether. Of course this will easily be another prototype that's never going to come to market apparently. Still, it's something to see that they are still putting in some effort with mirasol, when all indications pointed towards it being dead and buried.