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esecallum:
Transflective = backlit, there is a mirror behind the screen which will reflect surrounding light, but it is also transparent so backlight will also get through. The better PDA's will have a screen like this.
Transflective is a technology, if I correctly recall developed by SHARP (and used in their biggest SHARP ZAURUS pda models and laptops, and later licensed to other brands), which is far from perfect, and not so cool to look at direct sunlight, when compared with eink (eink is way better), and the new LCD screens (like the ones built into the OLPC XO laptops I mentioned earlier (which are also better than transflective).
The "slipperish silvery paint" you saw on the PRS-300 is actually the metal itself, aluminium, (no paint) and is quite "grippable" (more than plastic).
The pause between pulsing a control and seen a change is about 1 second.
The second itself it is because the eink is slow, but also the device is designed so it is NOT using energy when you are reading. So every time you press the buttom the device gets powered and fulfill your request. I assume that the "revival" process also counts on the timing.
I've read lots of books in my different ebook readers, and in my opinion those facts are a minimal distraction. I press the change page button, there is the black flash (some readers do not have it), and I am on the next page, just under the same timing I would have turned a real page to the next one.
Regards,
SigmaX
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