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Old 11-13-2009, 01:52 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by Kris777 View Post
jetBook has different screen (better than e-ink)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45593
RCA has regular LCD, same type as Ebookman screen
While I'm receptive to the idea that transflective LCD might offer serious competition to eInk (whose development of new screens appears to have stalled), a 5" 640x480 screen is only 160dpi. eInk's 5" version is 200dpi.

There's no point having mildly better contrast if you don't have the resolution to make use of it. All the new display technologies that have been publicised recently are just fudges that skirt around the fact that they still haven't worked out how to push dpi over 200.

Having said all that, this product looks pretty interesting at a price of $150. There's no doubt that price is the major barrier to wider eBook acceptance.
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