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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm thinking that even after the prophesied flood of spork tablets arrives, even after color eink arrives, B&W eink will still hold firm as the reader display tech of choice for price and quality of display for years to come.
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Eink suffers from annoyingly slow refresh rate. I don't see a potential for that technology to evolve and overcame that limitation.
And I am not talking the speeds needed for video here. Slow refresh is perfectly OK for "linear" reading, but is major pain for functions needed even for dedicated reader. Things like zoom in/out, scroll/panning through the PDF page or graphics displayed at 100%, speed of paging through the massive libraries on internal or external flash... Reflective LCD's, should they manage to increase the resolution of the current generation of screens, might turn out to be the better choice, even for "dedicated" readers.
As for the IMHO artificial division to dedicated readers vs. multi-function devices... it's all in software, isn't it? PRS+ has thrown in a couple of games for 505, why not something else? Multifunction device CAN be used for reading only, the opposite is not the case.
It is eInk vs. LCD, and both technologies have their share of problems and limitations.