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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What HarryT is saying is that the low-end devices are still faster than actual pieces of paper. This isn't exactly a subjective science, either.
I would also like a deeper (any?) explanation for your aspersions of "not so good touch technology".
No idea what weird feelings you have when you move your fingers, are you sure that is a problem with your ereader? 
As for your "magical experience (not mentioning paper smell)", some people will complain about anything. (Whatever it is this time, anyway...)
The only time my books smell is when they are mildewed, which is a smell I abhor. Not exactly magical!!!  |
A quick googling on capacitive and IR touch technologies will tell you that IR is not so responsive and it require you to actually place fingers so that IR beams are obstructed whereas in capacitive can work with a slight gap and that has a "smooth touch" experience in a swipe gesture (between the two ends).
IR is used because its cheap. if it were good then tabs would have used them instead but perhaps eink will not be able to get any advantage from a capacitive owing to its own slowiness and
with the help of 64mb ram
well it may be that printed page turns take same time but the point is it do not provide any progressive tactile feedback or animation in case of eink page turning or changing windows creates irritation, when i am turning paper paper something is happening right? so that time is bearable.
in this forum i have seen some people who swipe before reaching end of the page so by the time they reach end page turn can begin.