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Originally Posted by pholy
Also I have not checked on the pixel density achieved recently; the XO-1 is 800 x 600 with a 7.5" screen - ah ha, that works out to 133 dpi, as well - not bad for the first gen! So make it bigger and keep pushing the pixel density. If you want magazine quality viewing you need to approach colour laser printer dpi... well, no - that's up around 600 dpi for my $250 HP... but probably 200 dpi would be nice.
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The Mirasol demo unit and first-gen ebook reader screen is 5.7 inches and was claimed to deliver something like 1024x768, which is well over 200ppi (some strange disparity in some claims though at exact ppi, even though it should be vaguely calculable to 224ppi). I'm really interested in getting a look at something like that, as well as seeing how they can accomplish decent grayscale on it.
I'd also like to see some of those 300+ppi screens made a few years back...could be very neat. A number of phones also approach or even exceed 300ppi, but their displays are a bit small compared to ebook readers (one exception being the expensive Fujitsu FMV Biblo U/B50, which manages 1280x800 on a 5.6" display)