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Rumor on Amazon Eink Color Touch
Eink to ship 3 million color touch screen modules to Amazon each month starting in March???
I was following up on another thread here that talked about eink's first quarter losses. When I went to the original source of the news. I noticed that there was a headline from a previous article that says: Quote:
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If we assume they need a month to produce the readers, and allow a month for stocking the supply chain, this could be available as soon as June. However, if their aim is to launch in the fall for Christmas, they may need several months of production to stockup. This would mean they could launch in October with an inventory of 12 million (4 months x 3mil/month) for the holidays. |
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04-28-2012, 09:05 PM | #2 |
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The Wiki has a page on E Ink Triton, which was announced in November 2010. So far all the color E Ink devices have used 9.7" screens. Amazon might be first with an upgraded screen, but, assuming it is Triton, at 6" this will likely be 1024 x 768 for text but 512 x 384 for color. Reports on the 9.7" screen have generally been favorable, given its limitations in color range, but the background is brown, rather than grey, and the contrast is presumably lower than greyscale EInk.
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04-28-2012, 09:19 PM | #3 |
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I know Amazon reps have stated on more than one occasion that they weren't yet comfortable with the quality of color e-ink screens--this wasn’t too long after the Triton demos came out. So I suspect that the quality has progressed beyond that point (it's been nearly one and a half years), and Amazon is now willing to invest in the product.
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04-29-2012, 06:15 AM | #4 |
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I just don't see the point of 6" color readers - that size is really only good for reading novels.
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04-29-2012, 06:33 AM | #5 | |
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And also non-fiction works with photos or colour diagrams. History books or biographies would work, as well as technical reference books that use colours in their diagrams (I have the odd one or two loaded on my ereader). |
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04-29-2012, 08:40 AM | #6 |
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04-29-2012, 08:46 AM | #7 |
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That rumor dates back to February and Digitimes (hit-or-miss at best).
It has been pretty much debunked: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...dle-this-year/ |
04-29-2012, 02:22 PM | #8 |
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exactly fj. Amazon didnt order color ink displays. The whole thing is, again, the problem of Primeview changing the name to Eink Holdings. Story writers and rumor spreaders forget that it doesn just mean eink displays. From other reading its quite likely that Amazon has purchased Hydis FFS displays for the Fire.
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04-29-2012, 03:19 PM | #9 |
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04-29-2012, 04:50 PM | #10 |
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Hey. I am enthused over it.
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04-29-2012, 09:37 PM | #11 |
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I think the market for a color eInk would be small. Where it would be better than a B&W eReader (magazines and illustrated books), it wouldn't be better than an LCD tablet, unless you like pastel colors. Yes, better battery life and reading outdoors, but I still think the market would be small.
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I am thinking that I would love to have color on my Kindle for reading other than books as long as it didn't cost an arm and a leg. Color schematics would be great as would maps and color photographs. I don't need video! I am assuming the battery would last 12 hours or more hopefully up to 16 continuous. The grey scale Kindle is fine for reading books, and I have 3G on it as well. Still I don't expect that to last forever so I think of the future. Color sounds good, and it should improve over time. Last edited by SeaKing; 04-29-2012 at 11:02 PM. |
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04-30-2012, 12:18 AM | #13 |
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I've been eagerly waiting for something like this to make it to the Amazon line of things. This will make reading comics and more enjoyable.
If they can make it attractive and as affordable as the existing Kindle lines, I can see this as selling big (assuming it were true, anyways). |
04-30-2012, 03:14 AM | #14 |
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Weren't the origional audobon books in pastels? The prints I've seen don't look like oil pictures in any case. The color ink demos I've seen would work just fine for those. A lot of good art is in pastels that would work fine as illustrations in ebooks.
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Mmmmm.... Let's hope the world economy picks up a bit. Wouldn't do Eink much harm either - as might a judiciously placed rumour ? |
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