Thread: Isn't there any 13" colour device?
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Old 01-15-2024, 10:36 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by santu6 View Post
E Ink: They're actively developing new color e-paper technologies, but haven't announced any specific 13-15" panels yet.
But these are for retail and unless there is a tecnological 'order-0f-magnitude' breakthrough they will be useless for ereaders.
The desktop screen panels are now pointless compare to paper-like LCD beyond IPS technology. Desktop monitor eink is a dead end. That newer technology will make excellent tablet panels surpassing running life and quality of OLED.
It will be interesting to see how TCL NxtPaper develops and what panels LG, Samsung and Panasonic put in tablets. The best non-glare 4K HDR desktop monitors are now stunning and the Samsung and LG I have are dramatically better than anything I saw recently in Apple's big showroom here. They make my laptops & tablets look like junk.

Where eInk excels is reading text on 4″ to 10″ mono screens. The power spikes with page turn and if no front light, Wifi or BT it's almost zero while you read. It's less power saving for comics / graphic novels as the page turning is more often on an 8″ to 10″ approximate size screen.

I think the only future for colour eink is the ACeP poster panels for retail and the very expensive 10.3″ Kaleido color eink may be the last of them for ereaders.
Approximate Amazon Germany prices, ex Shipping.
TCL NxtPaper 11 (10.9″) 2000 x 1200 colour pixels, matte paper-like LCD, 16M+ shades/hues: €250
(Monochrome text resolution is variably higher in same way as for colour eink as it's a filtered mono LCD panel).

Kaleido 3 eink with about 4000 shades/hues by filtering a mono eink panel.
BigMe InkNote 10.3″ 1240 x 930 colour pixels: €690
BOOX Tablet Note Air 3 C 10.3″ 1240 x 930 colour pixels: €550
BOOX Tablet Note Air 3 Ultra C pro 10.3″ 1240 x 930 colour pixels: €700
PocketBook InkPad Color 3 7.8″ 936 x 702 colour pixels: €340

The 7.8″ is marginal for colour comics/graphic novels. All the colour ink need the front light on indoors and take much more front light power than mono eink. None are as clear / sharp as mono eink to read a regular novel.
An 8″ Sage is 1920 x 1440
A 7″ Libra 2 is 1680 x 1264
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