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Old 04-05-2014, 02:50 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
There's supposed the be a phone that has an LCD and and eInk screen. Perhaps someone will do a tablet.

My hope is that a display technology comes along that has the speed of LCD with the low power and readability of e-ink. Mirasol was a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps Liquavista will prove better, if it ever sees the light of day in a commercial product. Or there's the reflective LCD from Japan Dissplay that uses static RAM cells at each pixel to reduce power on static displays, currently available for watches.
Those sound great. I would hope in five or ten years, maybe there'll be technology where on one screen, you can basically switch from an e-ink type screen to an LCD back and forth, or something like that anyway.

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Or an iPhone case: http://www.popslate.com/
Oh! But why oh why is this only for iPhone size? Those screens are too small for me for long-term reading. They really need to make one of these for iPad mini - I think it would be a big success. At least, for me. That really would be perfect. Sigh, so close, yet so far away...

ETA - I just messaged Popslate asking for an iPad mini version. They may have already considered such a direction, but I wanted voice my enthusiasm for it.

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