However, the latest wonder from E Ink
Mobius screen technology teaming up with Sony tends to create a ripple effect among tech aficionados.
The Digital Paper boasts a 13.3 inch E-Ink
Mobius screen, which will allow users to annotate a document whilst resting their hand on the tablet, encouraging a natural writing style.
First off it's going to be using the 1600 x 1200 resolution E Ink
Mobius screen instead of the 2200 x 1650 screen that was promised earlier.
The display uses E Ink's Fina screen technology, which is glass - based, unlike Sony's 13.3 - inch DPT - S1 PDF reader, which uses a flexible plastic - based
Mobius screen.
Considering the Sony DPT - S1 sells for $ 1100 with a 13.3 - inch
Mobius screen, could you imagine how much a 32 - inch screen would cost?
To me, that would be innovation While I welcome
the mobius screen, I agree that e-ink has become complacent.
The Paperlike is billed as an E-Ink
Mobius screen that can be placed on a small stand or mounted to a swivel.
Onyx Boox has just announced their second generation 13.3 inch e-reader and instead of using an E Ink
Mobius screen, it is employing Carta.
The first being because its writable; fully writable, huge
Mobius screen, and 13 inches, that costs a lot right there.
The only commercially viable product to use
Mobius screen technology was the Sony 13.3 inch e-reader.
The Onyx Boox Max has a 13.3 - inch flexible
Mobius screen with a resolution of 1600 x 1200.
When Sony released their first 13.3 - inch E Ink PDF reader, the DPT - S1, it sold for $ 1100 so actually the prices have come down a lot since then, and that was with the 1st gen
Mobius screen.
At the moment, that 13.3 ″
mobius screen costs something like $ 600 on its own.
At the moment
the Mobius screen costs around $ 600.
So if you want a 13.3 inch
mobius screen, support this campaign first.
This will give you an indication on how the e-ink
Mobius screen can handle PDF viewing and editing when you're in the field and working.
So basically Sony and e-ink did RND together, Sony got
the Mobius screen at a tremendous discount and got a certain number of months exclusive on the market.
This will give you an indication on how the e-ink
Mobius screen can handle PDF viewing and editing when you're in the field and... [Read more...]
In spite of this, I'm already reading some comments on the final price of the device, which only shows how many people are still unaware of how expensive a 13.3 e-ink
mobius screen really is.
There is a new concept sheet music reader that has just been announced and it features two e-Ink
Mobius screens.
I suppose that the extra thin - ness might be also helped, if they have somehow moved Carta or its equivalent, to a plastic substrate, like
their Mobius screens, potentially reducing weight, even more.
E Ink and Sony's 13.3 ″
Mobius screens are plastic - based, for instance.
Mobius screens currently use E Ink Pearl technology but could in theory upgrade to E Ink Carta.
E Ink
Mobius screens are flexible and can be custom shaped enabling smaller new form factors.
Not exact matches
This used a very old e Ink
screen called Pearl, whereas ours uses
Mobius, which is the latest generation e-paper.
The
screen itself, built with E Ink's
Mobius display tech, has been upped from 1200 × 1600 to 1650 × 2200, which should make text considerably clearer (206 DPI — pretty good).
Base (substrate) is the glass of the
screen (for models E-ink Vizplex, Pearl, Karta, Triton) or plastic (for the E-ink
Mobius или E-ink Flex) plate thickness slightly less than half a millimeter.
They are revising the
screen technology and going with the more lightweight
Mobius, as found on the Sony Digital Paper.
Will we maybe see a
Mobius display
screen or front - lite technology that will allow you to read in the dark?
If «DPT - S1 ″ will be sold for that price, it's time to look for alternatives... Also: given that «the major benefit of
Mobius is that the tech allows them to cut it to any size they want, and still retain all of the benefits» is there any news about possible ereaders with
screen sizes 10» and up and (sold for much less!)
Not only is this the first 13.3 inch e-reader in the world, but the
screen technology was developed by Sony, called
Mobius.
The Sony Digital Paper or DPT - S1 features a giant 13.3 inch
screen and uses new lightweight e-paper technology called
Mobius.
It has a 13.3 inch
screen and uses the new super lightweight
Mobius e Ink
screen technology.
The
Mobius technology finally gives us a light, durable
screen with accurate stylus support plus touch.
The
screen uses new E Ink technology dubbed
Mobius by E Ink.
e Ink
Mobius is perfect for large
screen displays because it was developed to weigh less than 50 % of an equivalent glass based TFT and maintain flexibility.
Decent means: —
Mobius or any other light
screen technology.
This model upgraded from a glass based Fina e-paper
screen to a 13.3 inch
Mobius panel.
Something with a large
screen,
Mobius, bluetooth, audio, wacom display for stylus support and gain venture funding to make it possible.
Onyx is in the process of making a consumer grade e-reader using a 13.3 inch
screen and employing e-ink
Mobius that will be released this October.
I think one of the priorities with e-ink right now (i talked to them for an hour today) is 9.7 and 10.1 inch
screens using
MOBIUS or FINA.
The Kindle Paperwhite 3 will be using
screen technology that was developed by e Ink and Sony called
Mobius.
Even with a
screen protector, it is unclear whether the
Mobius E-ink
screen can hold up to heavy note taking over time.
The new
Mobius e-Paper
screen was developed by Sony specifically for use with EPDs in cooperation with E Ink.
The Good e-Reader 13.3 features a giant
screen with an E-Ink
Mobius display with a resolution of 1600 × 1200.
This device has more memory than the DPT - S1 and also has Bluetooth / NFC, not to mention it has an E-Ink Carta
screen, which has performance benefits over
Mobius.
They could make a large
screen e-reader in the educational market work, but they would have to use e-ink
Mobius, because its lightweight, flexible and plastic based whereas Fina is glass, cheaper, but heavier.
They just removed the Fina
Screen and are adopting a
Mobius, same as the Sony.
Also, if Carta isn't scalable, which had the main advantage of higher reflectivity for use with the front - light, you might be able to use other e-ink
screens instead, like
Mobius and still have a good, even light spill, enabling larger
screens while still keeping the benefits of higher density, etc..
ONYX BOOX MAX Carta is an ONYX device with a higher resolution
screen E Ink
Mobius Carta of 13,3» and the SNOW Field function.