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Old 10-13-2009, 10:34 AM   #91
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One thing you forgot about E-Ink - It will allow you to read in bright sunlight (for outdoor reading). My iPaq was poor at best for reading outdoors.
This is dependent on whether you can turn off the backlight on the PDA. On my current device I can. On my previous one I couldn't, which was annoying. (And it fact, I could via a hack, but didn't discover the hack till after the device was retired and replaced due to hardware failure. )
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:49 AM   #92
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Today Barnes and Noble denied about color eBook reader:

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2009/10/...-ebook-reader/
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As far as children are concerned with regard to color devices...

Children are really just miniature inebriated demolition teams. A $4 book that can be chewed on, drooled on, spilled on, torn, thrown, creased, drawn on, and fairly easily recycled is actually pretty good technology.

I'm all for using technology in education...especially in special needs environments and with teenagers and adults...but a crappy ebook reader with a color screen is not really anything approaching an adequate replacement (or even supplement) for simple color books.
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Hmm. Can't wait to hear the truth behind the B&N press release. I imagine we'll get it eventually. Could be PL's prototype yields took a dump recently or could be some B&N marketing weenie ran with the slimmest of encouragement. That'd be straight out of a Dilbert comic. Scott Adams has a knack for cutting to the heart of common corporate behavior and mocking it.
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This is dependent on whether you can turn off the backlight on the PDA. On my current device I can. On my previous one I couldn't, which was annoying. (And it fact, I could via a hack, but didn't discover the hack till after the device was retired and replaced due to hardware failure. )
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I don't see how turning the backlight off would make a screen anymore daylight readable. It just gets overpowered in the sunlight anyways.

The critical difference between a reflective LCD and transmissive LCD is that the former has a reflector behind it, while the latter has a light source in its place. Now transflective LCDs have a special semi-reflective/transmissive polymer (appropriately called a "transflector") in between the LCD and backlight, though the contrast is still not as good as a true reflective LCD.
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I don't see how turning the backlight off would make a screen anymore daylight readable. It just gets overpowered in the sunlight anyways.
You would have to see it. With backlight off, my device is quite readable outdoors in sunlight. With backlight on, it isn't.
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You would have to see it. With backlight off, my device is quite readable outdoors in sunlight. With backlight on, it isn't.
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Which device is it exactly?
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You would have to see it. With backlight off, my device is quite readable outdoors in sunlight. With backlight on, it isn't.
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Which device is it exactly?
If you meant the Zodiac 2, that has a transflective LCD. Which are still far less common than transmissive LCDs.

Admittedly I don't have as much experience with the transflective class of displays. Though I suppose the backlight might somehow be obscuring the transflector.
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Old 10-13-2009, 03:08 PM   #99
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If you meant the Zodiac 2, that has a transflective LCD. Which are still far less common than transmissive LCDs.

Admittedly I don't have as much experience with the transflective class of displays. Though I suppose the backlight might somehow be obscuring the transflector.
It is indeed the Zodiac 2. As I said, with backlight turned completely off, it's quite readable in sunlight.

My previous device was a Tungsten E, which would not let me turn the backlight completely off. I found out after retiring it for hardware failure and getting a Zodiac that a hack existed to turn off the backlight entirely, and that it too was usable outdoors it that were done.
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It is indeed the Zodiac 2. As I said, with backlight turned completely off, it's quite readable in sunlight.

My previous device was a Tungsten E, which would not let me turn the backlight completely off. I found out after retiring it for hardware failure and getting a Zodiac that a hack existed to turn off the backlight entirely, and that it too was usable outdoors it that were done.
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The Tungsten E also has a transflective LCD.

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Looks like it's going to be a dual screen reader. Standard e-ink screen for reading and a touch-sensitive LCD for menus, keyboard, etc.

http://gizmodo.com/5380942/barnes-an...os-and-details
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What an interesting idea!!!!
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Today Barnes and Noble denied about color eBook reader:

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2009/10/...-ebook-reader/
In that case I suggest this topic should be moved off front page, or its title changed.
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In that case I suggest this topic should be moved off front page, or its title changed.
The rep still said what he said, and the first post was reporting that. The report of what he said is still correct. Also, we have yet to see if this is "really" true or not. B&N is having an event on Oct 20th. I expect we will get more details then.

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