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Originally Posted by spinoza
People seem ready to point out that LCD displays do not work well in in direct sunlight, but these negativistas don't seem as ready point out that LCDs work infinitely better than e-ink in low or no light. I much prefer the advantage of being able to read without ambient light than with reading in direct sunlight, since I don't do the latter near as much as the former.
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A simple clip on booklight works great with eInk. For me this is actually better than an LCD in some sense, since a backlight can prove rather irritating on my eyes while reading in a pitch black room. (I have my lamp on right now just so as to avoid the problem with my laptop screen)
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That being said, I understand a new transreflective kind of technology will be coming out this fall that will allow LCD displays to be used in bright sunlight just like e-ink. It supposedly will revolutionize LCD technology because it will combine the advantages of e-ink (low battery use, etc) with LCD. If this is the case, we won't have to decide between one or the other in the future.
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That would be the 3Qi technology from
PixelQi. Which does appear to be a major improvement over existing transflective LCDs. Though by their own admittance it still consumes more power than eInk... of course eInk uses absolutely no power other than during a refresh, which also means that the rest of the hardware can enter a suspended state until the next time a button is pressed... and lags slightly behind in contrast.