Ars has an article,
The e-book wars of 2010: displays and hardware, penned from CES. I am sceptical about low-cost hardware this year but Jon Stokes makes some good points, including:
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Both the Skiff and the Plastic Logic QUE were incredibly thin—about quarter of an inch or less. This thinness is made possible in part by the fact that both have flexible display substrates—Skiff's uses a foil substrate developed by LG, while Plastic Logic's uses a plastic substrate developed in-house. Both of these make for flexible displays, but of the two only the Skiff itself is physically flexible (you can actually bend the device a bit and it doesn't hurt it).
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I got a close-up look at Qualcomm's Mirasol, MEMS-based technology that I mentioned in my CES preview article. A Qualcomm rep showed me a static screen with a color picture on it, and I have to admit to being pretty disappointed.
I saw the screen in some good light, but color saturation was just too poor; the dpi also seemed quite low. It sort of looked like an old-timey lithograph; if the unit had featured not a magazine cover but a Union soldier holding a rifle, it would've been a dead ringer for a piece of Civil War memorabilia. OK, that's an exaggeration, but it did look unexpectedly dim and metallic.
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