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Originally Posted by elcreative
First, it's an LED screen, not LCD hence no backlight as pixels provide the light themselves (also means longer battery life... tho' I'd like more than 10 hours). Second... why replace... add... I see this as ideal for reading comics and non-fiction especially tech/history stuff where formatting is important to meaning and content.
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Not accurate. OLED pixels produce their own light.
What are commonly referred to as LED displays today (which includes everything Apple makes) are LED backlights with a LCD layer on top. Much cheaper than a true LED display (2k for an 11" OLED display right now). Especially since each LED in an LED backlight is actually pretty big, and usually spans a cluster of pixels. The key difference is that with an LED backlight, black is still not 'black'. It looks black, but you still get a tiny bit of light leakage when the display is on. LED-backlit TVs dodge this by adjusting each LED manually to get more contrast.
LED backlighting is smaller, and uses less energy than a CCFL backlight, so you got that part right anyways.
The problem is the number of devices I would carry. I have an iPhone, and a reader. If it isn't replacing at least one of them (which it can't replace either), then it doesn't get room in my bag right now.