Quote:
Originally Posted by Markismus
The color screens will drive down the price of greyscale ereaders considerably, so I am holding out until the fall before buying another ereader.
|
They won't.
Also unless a new technology is invented any ambient light illuminated colour screen will be rubbish.
The passive except when updated screens are of most advantage when using ambient light. They are a niche compared with colour LCD and OLED which are far far cheaper.
The screen quality more or less peaked at the PW3 and H2O for eInk. Larger screens than 7" get progressively disproportionately more expensive. Perhaps the yield is poor. That likely would at least be 4x worse for 14" than 7", it may be worse. There isn't much difference needed in Electronics cost for a 6" eink and an approximately 14" model.
I'd like to see A4/Letter size eink 300 dpi. A4 is 210 mm x 297 mm. US Letter is 215.9 mm x 279.4 mm. So to view the most common PDFs at actual size we need 216 mm x 297 mm.
For the brightest screen with ambient light we'd need IR or Ultrasonic touch, though maybe at that size it has to be capacitive. For the best annotation and sketching we'd want a Wacom sensor (doesn't affect screen reflectance) and a stylus.
It also would need to work purely as mass storage on anything and not be crippled by needing a Windows Application like the Sony Digital paper.
It would also need to have two USB ports, with full OTG/Host support on one. Headphone socket, Full size SDXC/SDHC slot, WiFi, Bluetooth. Built in Kindle support as well as epub2 and PDF. Otherwise you are better off with a 14" Android Tablet.
The Sony Digital paper at approximately 14" is nice but let down by poor format support, poor I/O and walled to a dedicated Windows application. Sony has forgotten the stupidity of Minidisk artificial limitations, removing Linux from PS models that already had it and the proprietary memory cards.