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LDBoblo · 12-24-2009, 04:07 AM

Part of me says "yeah this could be useful", but a much bigger part of me says "uh, no thanks."

I can appreciate a dual-panel concept (I was pretty excited about the OLPC XO 2.0 that, as predicted, never came to fruition), but it's still just e-ink rubbish mated to generic LCD. The e-ink is still slow and nearly useless, and the LCD is the same fare as on more capable netbooks.

A netbook with Pixel Qi will be better at virtually everything that this device aspires to do, except have 2 displays on simultaneously (which, don't get me wrong, could be useful). If entourage hooks up with Qualcomm or Pixel Qi and makes a dual screen device in that vein and ditches e-ink altogether, then they'd be a lot more exciting and interesting. I hope they sell enough of the Vizplex-LCD version to promote development of better things in the future though.

12-24-2009, 04:07 AM	#22
LDBoblo Wizard Posts: 1,385 Karma: 16056 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Asia Device: Kindle 3 WiFi, Sony PRS-505	Part of me says "yeah this could be useful", but a much bigger part of me says "uh, no thanks." I can appreciate a dual-panel concept (I was pretty excited about the OLPC XO 2.0 that, as predicted, never came to fruition), but it's still just e-ink rubbish mated to generic LCD. The e-ink is still slow and nearly useless, and the LCD is the same fare as on more capable netbooks. A netbook with Pixel Qi will be better at virtually everything that this device aspires to do, except have 2 displays on simultaneously (which, don't get me wrong, could be useful). If entourage hooks up with Qualcomm or Pixel Qi and makes a dual screen device in that vein and ditches e-ink altogether, then they'd be a lot more exciting and interesting. I hope they sell enough of the Vizplex-LCD version to promote development of better things in the future though.