Thread: What's the Situation with Colour Ebook Readers at the moment?
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Old 05-29-2018, 04:28 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
There are still no good colour ereaders. Unless you count LCD/OLED tablets.

EInk's colour display is dull and muted
Qualcomm's Mirasol technology appeared, but was disappointing in practice and went nowhere.
Amazon seem to have given up on LiquaVista.
Bridgestone (yes the tyre company) has given up on their ePaper.

The only technology currently being developed seems to be ClearINK. Let's hope they bring something to market soon.
Mirasol was 'good enough'. Even without any improvements to the screen quality itself, the advances in frontlights (like Kobo's rgb), processors and batteries would allow manufacturers to offer a compelling Mirasol ereader today imo. Apple/Google/Samsung have abandoned ~6-7" tablets so there are no good small LCD/OLED tablets. There is a niche to be filled if someone would seize the opportunity
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