As far as the "white" being called "white" when it clearly isn't white, I would think you would have to contact one of the eInk screen companies directly (ie. PVI) - which also sounds like it's gonna be a long frustrating conversation
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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
I can say if I had a choice between the eink Sony devices and a PDA with some form of LCD and a transreflective display, I would opt for the PDA type device.
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The choice of device (or better, the choice of screen) is currently limited by technology. We had an earlier article describing the current options:
Why there isn't a perfect ebook reader.
The Jetbook and some earlier readers used a reflective LCD screen, easily viewable in sunlight, but early versions had the very classic black type on green background that has become a stereotype of LCDs.
We are currently in the "early adoption" phase of eInk screens and, currently, the best are probably the Kindle and the PRS-505 with their dark-gray on light-gray feel that has become so common.
Pixel Qi's screen for the OLPC laptop looks to be the next promising idea. Some cellphones have a similar concept, combining a reflective LCD with a backlit LED screen, backlight on and everything is in color, but bad in sunlight, backlight off and it's a monochrome screen but good in sunlight. Pixel Qi's contribution is drastically reducing power consumption (not to eInk levels, but far better than what we're used to in laptops) and making the reflective monochrome component 4x the resolution of the color component.