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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Any gains from more efficient electronics might be traded off with smaller, lighter battery packs. We might not see any battery life gains at the product level.
As for a newer eink generation, Carta is only now starting to filter down to the third tier vendors and with declining sales volumes there is no telling how much R&D eInk might be willing to devote to ereaders instead of alternate markets. I wouldn't hold my breath for a newer screen tech from eink this year. I think the 300 dpi Carta is tops for this year.
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It's hard to see how they can improve the screen beyond what is used in the kindle voyage,It's pretty much perfect and reads like a printed book...even better i might add,the next step needed are for larger eink devices in the 10" range,a 300ppi 9.7" eink mobius display based on carta would probably make for my ideal ereader,i say mobius because the glass based current 9.7" ereader are far too heavy,the switch to mobius would reduce the device weight by about half judging by how much the DPT-S1 weighs and it's size. Maybe we could expect such a device at the end of this year or next year...but i suspect unless amazon bring back the DX line and introduce a successor i don't see eink developing a specialized high PPI large screen for anyone else.Amazon seem to be pushing the technology along with everyone else getting it at a later date.