12-18-2009, 03:58 AM
|
#1
|
|
Addict
Posts: 236
Karma: 4066
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: California
Device: Kindle 1 and DX, iPhone
|
PVI (eInk) to Ship Plastic Screens in 2010
From http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3963166-e...nclick_check=1
Quote:
A key technology supplier to the Amazon Kindle electronic reader plans to launch a lightweight plastic screen next year that is expected to make the products less likely to break and pave the way for their large-scale introduction in schools and colleges.
Prime View International, a Taiwanese company that is the biggest supplier of the screens used in e-readers - and which are currently based on glass - intends to introduce a plastic-based screen in the spring that it would make available to all its customers including Amazon.
The US internet retailer yesterday said it did not want to comment on any plans it might have for introducing a plastic-based version of the Kindle.
...
|
(via http://kindleworld.blogspot.com)
|
|
|