Fujitsu FLEPia released! - Page 6

sue1326 · 03-21-2009, 10:56 PM

Color! Wow! So nice but the price!

Too expensive, even for a color ereader. I will wait until the price comes down . . . a lot! $1,000 will buy a lot of books. But very nice!

Sonist · 03-22-2009, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by sashas

Hi guys,

I know a lot of you would like to see the contrast and vibrancy compared with other e-reader devices. I have gone ahead and posted pictures of the Irex e-reader side by side with the Fujitsu Flepia....

thanks for bursting my bubble

The Flepia, at least in these pics, just sucks!

dragonbone · 03-22-2009, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonist

thanks for bursting my bubble

The Flepia, at least in these pics, just sucks!

Me too..... again! Don't totally lose all hope yet. I still plan to go and see the device BEFORE the trade show in Tokyo next month. I will come back and report my (hopefully) good findings..... sigh....

Alphapheemail · 03-22-2009, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonist

thanks for bursting my bubble

The Flepia, at least in these pics, just sucks!

Wow! If anything this is an ad for the iRex! Take the 1000 and spend it on the iLiad and still have left over for a latte in the cafe shop while you're reading that newspaper!

:::ducking now::::

dkb · 03-23-2009, 05:06 PM

The color reader looks good, but I think it's all about affordable content. I once had an Apple IIGS. Theoretically it was a great computer. Alas, the programs I wanted to use were all written for Windows. So far the content I want at the price I want to pay is mostly at Amazon.

The cost of the device is also an issue. Even though my Prius doubled my gas mileage, it will be a long long time before the gas saving make up for what I paid for the car. Likewise since I got my Kindle, I haven't saved money on books. I've just been able to read some best sellers sooner than I would have otherwise because normally I would have waiting until the paperback came out. So I'm really annoyed with publishers who think they can charge hardback prices for an ebook even after the paperback has come out.

ghchinoy · 03-24-2009, 03:39 AM

Another article:

A Color E-Reader
The new Fujitsu color e-reader uses LCD technology but has some of the advantages of e-paper.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22332/

DaleDe · 03-24-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ghchinoy

Another article:

A Color E-Reader
The new Fujitsu color e-reader uses LCD technology but has some of the advantages of e-paper.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22332/

While the Color eBook Reader is not e-Ink it certainly is e-Paper. Please read the wiki article on this. https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-paper

Dale

dragonbone · 03-24-2009, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by dragonbone

Well in that case, they definitely say it IS e-paper.

http://www.displayexpo.jp/display/english/exhibitor08/

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

While the Color eBook Reader is not e-Ink it certainly is e-Paper. Please read the wiki article on this. https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-paper

Dale

Yes, you are right. I did mention it earlier in the this thread

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raptor_tk · 04-13-2009, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by CTH

Why does it update the screen from one side to the other? That just has to be a controller issue. I mean why would the pixels on the right be faster than the pixels to the left

It seems to me that the screen itself could be much faster than shown in the vidoes. I would like to put my hands on a development kit for this one

If anyone could come up with a good explenation why the refresh has to go from one side to the other, I would be very intressted in hearing it!

It is because Japanese people read Japanese novels from right to left.

maynard · 04-13-2009, 04:25 PM

pricejapan.com should be willing to export one of the babies to anyone in the world... today.

igorsk · 04-13-2009, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by maynard

pricejapan.com should be willing to export one of the babies to anyone in the world... today.

I want their time machine.

Bushcat · 04-17-2009, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by raptor_tk

It is because Japanese people read Japanese novels from right to left.

Naw. It's refreshing in the direction of the shortest axis to try and keep the refresh time down. Most text stopped being printed right to left in the late 1950's. Text is usually left to right, or top to bottom. Pages stilll mostly turn left to right, though.

It actually does 3 refreshes: first 64 colors, then 4096, then the full 200k. The screen's readable after the first refresh. The Bridgestone display is way, way better as a user experience, incidentally. Saw my first one yesterday.

raptor_tk · 04-17-2009, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bushcat

Naw. It's refreshing in the direction of the shortest axis to try and keep the refresh time down. Most text stopped being printed right to left in the late 1950's. Text is usually left to right, or top to bottom. Pages stilll mostly turn left to right, though.

It actually does 3 refreshes: first 64 colors, then 4096, then the full 200k. The screen's readable after the first refresh. The Bridgestone display is way, way better as a user experience, incidentally. Saw my first one yesterday.

I am not talking about text being printed from right to left, I am saying that the text is read from right to left. I own many Japanese novels and they all are read from right to left.

Many technical books are often printed horizontally and read from left to right like English books but all the Japanese novels I've seen have been printed so the characters are lined vertically going top to bottom and reading the lines from right to left.

Since Japanese people would likely be using the device to read novels, reading from right to left, it would make sense to have the next line they read to be refreshed first.

rhari79 · 04-17-2009, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by raptor_tk

Since Japanese people would likely be using the device to read novels, reading from right to left, it would make sense to have the next line they read to be refreshed first.

Do the Japanese also use right to left reading/writing for business purposes?
From my limited knowledge, technical writing and hence reading is l->r, horizontal..

This device at 90K Yens~1000$ is targeted at business users not people who read novels(though it can be used for that obviously).

igorsk · 04-17-2009, 08:31 PM

Japanese can be written either vertically right to left (used in books, magazines, manga etc) or "western" way, left to right horizontally, used in newspapers, manuals and online.
Electronic readers can usually switch between two modes.

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sue1326 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: kindle 2	Color! Wow! So nice but the price! Too expensive, even for a color ereader. I will wait until the price comes down . . . a lot! $1,000 will buy a lot of books. But very nice!

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dkb ebook enthusiast Posts: 85 Karma: 40466 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Midlothian, VA Device: Kindle 2, iPhone, Sony PRS-350, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch	The color reader looks good, but I think it's all about affordable content. I once had an Apple IIGS. Theoretically it was a great computer. Alas, the programs I wanted to use were all written for Windows. So far the content I want at the price I want to pay is mostly at Amazon. The cost of the device is also an issue. Even though my Prius doubled my gas mileage, it will be a long long time before the gas saving make up for what I paid for the car. Likewise since I got my Kindle, I haven't saved money on books. I've just been able to read some best sellers sooner than I would have otherwise because normally I would have waiting until the paperback came out. So I'm really annoyed with publishers who think they can charge hardback prices for an ebook even after the paperback has come out.

03-24-2009, 03:39 AM	#81
ghchinoy Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Amazon Kindle 1 & 2, iPod Touch	Another article: A Color E-Reader The new Fujitsu color e-reader uses LCD technology but has some of the advantages of e-paper. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22332/

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maynard Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: iPhone, PRS-505, iLiad, Entourage Edge	pricejapan.com should be willing to export one of the babies to anyone in the world... today.

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igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	Japanese can be written either vertically right to left (used in books, magazines, manga etc) or "western" way, left to right horizontally, used in newspapers, manuals and online. Electronic readers can usually switch between two modes.