Thread: CES 2010: Astak bets on bigger E Ink displays and color
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Old 03-31-2009, 01:09 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Personally I think it's more of a "technology demonstration" than a practical device. Too expensive and way too slow to refresh the screen to be practical for reading on.

I honestly can't say that I'm desperately bothered about colour. Reading novels is what I have an eBook reader for, very few of which have colour illustrations.

I can see, though, that there applications for which colour would be enormously beneficial.
Thanks, thats what I thought. Color would not really help me that much to view Google and Internet Archive PDFs.
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