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Originally Posted by ereadingdotcom
That's the company I was thinking of. I wonder why they haven't found more mainstream acceptance. I'm guessing that there are technical restrictions associated with the technology, which makes it unappealing in the fast-paced environment of retail PC sales and the race for better hardware performance. The Sunbook netbook isn't very impressive in terms of specs. Right now, PixelQI seems to be aiming at the commercial markets rather than the consumer ones.
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Technical limitations would include:
- loss of color when turning off the backlight
- limited viewing angles
- high energy consumption even without backlight compared to (color) eink or mirasol screens
I am not sure if in sunlight and the backlight turned on you would see any colors, but I assume not. If that was the case they would advertise it as feature. So beeing limited to black and white in the sun is going to be a no-no for consumers wanting multi media entertainment. The ones that want to use it as a ereader in the sun will not like the high power consumption. That limits the practical uses in the sun to a glorified typewriter for email and office applications and maybe limited browsing without color.