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Originally Posted by Quoth
A 6" ereader is poor for any technical documents with graphs, maps etc. Those tend to be fixed layout or PDF and generally need 10" or better. Well served by LCD and OLED. With the limited pastel palette more complex line graphs with many colours of lines will be hard to differentiate. It's an inferior palette to a 4096 palette with fully saturated colours.
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Right. I meant Kaleido [is for data], like in general colour for displays - an extra dimension to differentiate things. The PB633 may certainly have use for comics and, I don't know, GBC emulation (well, I have quickly seen it has Sudoku and a few other games).
I have noticed that those users who show interest in using reflective displays with desktop operating systems (so e.g. using such tablets as monitors etc.) often ask "Can I use it for coding?", and that is some activity which becomes inefficient without syntax highlighting. Geo maps without colour cannot be glanced at and instead start requiring a whole bunch of military officers pondering on them to discriminate their contents - so not something you would place in a car. Many graphs without colour are like trying to play "The Castles of Dr. Creep" through a black and white TV.
But really, some people still consider decadence not coding on a terminal, 6'' is a good size for a GPS plus maps device and HTML documents even when data oriented can reflow nicely in a smaller screen... (Not that it I would call it an optimal experience.)
LCD and OLED have their own - well, not use, but context. Spatial context. Environment. OLED dominates in the shadows but is consumed like a damned soul in the daylight.