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Originally Posted by fugazied
It's a pretty exciting technology - color e-ink which is readable in sunlight.
I wonder how it will go in terms of battery life though, we would have to assume color tech takes more power?
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No, it doesn't.
Video takes more power, but the screen can "rest" at a very very tiny bias voltage. Even in video, it is supposedly very low power (around 20-30mW according to one of their claims). As a reader, it should be similar to, if not better than, electrophoretic (like E-Ink) in terms of battery life.
For reference, Pixel Qi's screen will draw around 500mW (According to Pixel Qi, or 200mW according to Notion Ink), and they hope to get that down to around 100mW with more optimization. A typical backlit LCD will be more than 2000mW.