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Originally Posted by Quoth
Fair comment. I do try to simply balance the hype with basic physics. They aren't rubbish but are certainly a niche in a niche. There are real use cases.
The Kaleido is real eInk with various filters depending on model. The Gallery AECP is made by E Ink the company, but doesn't appear to be traditional eink panels.
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What makes Gallery 3 any less of a eInk panel? The image is stable until the electronics cause a change which has pretty much been the hallmark of eInk panels and the main reason they consume low power. Are you going to argue that having more than one layer of particles somehow makes this not an eInk panel? That having more stable states rather than the 8/16 of B&W eInk panels disqualifies them from being eInk panels?
Where does your view of traditional eInk panels end? The eInk Prism with 2 pigment colours (W and a colour)? The eInk Spectra 3000 with three pigment colours (WB, Y or R)? The eInk Spectra 3100 with four pigment colours (YRWB)? Does an eInk panel need to use microcapsules instead of microcups? Does calling it Advanced Color ePaper somehow offend your sensibilities?
Perhaps that eInk refers to "several types of electrophoretic ink, often called electronic ink" on their webpage might indicate that they think of ACeP film when laminated to a substrate and then bonded to the electronics as being an eInk display.