We might also see
color screen eReaders and a new Nook.
Both PVI and Qualcomm are claiming that
color screen eReaders are going to arrive by end 2010 with their respective color ePaper screens — Really?
Fujitsu selling its second generation
color screen eReader in Japan.
Hanvon agrees, and is releasing
a color screen eReader this year in China.
Not exact matches
When you make it with a
color screen ok 8 ″ is small to read science books, comics, newspapers... And the
ereader 13,3 ″ should have
color screen.
In case of
ereaders you get a black and white
screen and now you can also get
color displays in higher versions.
It is a 9.7 ″
ereader and is the first to come with a
color E Ink
screen.
ereaders still are not quite there, though perhaps in the next five to six years they will be: large
screens (at least 9.7 ″), white (adjustable
color) front - lit backgrounds, and at least 600 dpi.
Of course, losing
color pages is always a disappointment, but
color e Ink
screens in
eReaders just aren't taking off right now.
The Literati is a
color ereader with a 7 - inch
screen and has built - in WiFi for connecting to the Kobo ebook store.
In my opinion a large
ereader only makes sense with
color screen (read w & b comic?
Overall, I'd say that the Nook
Color is the best LCD
ereader yet for e-reading simply because of its high quality
screen.
The newer model has adjustable frontlight
color and it has twice as much internal storage space and the overall size is a bit smaller, but the software and
screen are the same so if you want a slightly larger 6.8 - inch
ereader the 1st gen H2O is still worth considering.
The eBook Reader Comparison Table A table comparing the top
ereaders currently available with
color and E Ink
screens, small and large.
If Amazon wants to stay in the game with its proprietary ebook system then it's going to need to come up with an
ereader with a
color screen.
In addition, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus makes it quick and easy to browse rich Web content with support for Adobe ® Flash ® Player and read books and magazines though services like Zinio ®, which offers more than 5,000 full
color magazines to browse, and Blio ®
eReader, which shows eBooks in full
color on the brilliant 7 - inch
screen.
I haven't seen these specific
ereaders in person to see how they compare, but Carta
screens generally have better contrast, with a lighter background
color and darker blacks.
Which strongly suggests there's a larger
eReader company working on
color eReaders using Mirasol
screens.
The
eReader has a 6 - inch
screen, can display 16 levels of grayscale
color, and is open to ePub and PDF file formats.
The
screen is noticeably darker than previous Kobo
ereaders, and the
color of the frontlight isn't as uniform either.
It doesn't have an adjustable frontlight
color like Kobo's other
ereaders, and it's not waterproof either, and again the lower resolution
screen isn't ideal.
I even found a similar
color ereader with a 4.3 - inch
screen — never seen that size before.
One of the advantages of LCD
eReaders (besides a full -
color screen) is instant page turns.
The same goes for the E Ink
screen used on the new Hanvon
color ereader.
Its grayscale
screen strays from the NOOK
Color, and while the device still runs Android, it looks and feels much more like a traditional
eReader.
I do believe that
color screens will be a game changer (not the book), and will cause
ereader sales to really soar.
At CES this week, Vivitek demonstrated both an 8.2 - inch
eReader and a 13 - inch tablet, among the first devices ever to use QR - LPD
color ePaper
screens.
At present, the
eReader market is dominated by two
screen technologies: the grayscale eInk displays found on the Kindle and a few others and the
color LCD panels you'll see on devices like the Nook C
color LCD panels you'll see on devices like the Nook
ColorColor.
«We've also made additional reading and device performance enhancements including improved page turn speed, faster access to previously opened e-books, enhanced
color touch -
screen navigation and more,» Paul Hochman, manager of Content and Social Media at BarnesandNoble.com, wrote in an April 23 posting on the Nook and BN
eReader blog.
«We've also made additional reading and device performance enhancements, including improved page turn speed, faster access to previously opened ebooks, enhanced
color touch -
screen navigation and more,» Paul Hochman, manager of Content and Social Media at BarnesandNoble.com, wrote April 23 on the Nook and BN
eReader blog.
On top of that, until
color screens come into fashion in the
eReading world there will always be some question of whether enough is being done to hold student attention.
I came across a new touchscreen - equipped Ematic
ereader on Walmart, model EB103, that shares a similar design to Sony's eBook Readers, although it has a
color LCD
screen instead of E Ink.
When it first debuted, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet went head - to - head with Amazon's Kindle Fire with a great
screen, microSD card slot and a stylish design, but the company may have done itself a disservice by pricing its 7 - inch
color eReader $ 50 higher.
Kindle
eReader with eInk
screen — 6 ″
screen, eInk (with Touch if you get Kindle Touch), no
color, no backlight, readable in sunlight, easier on the eyes, optimized for reading.
It's unlikely Amazon will release another large -
screen E Ink
ereader again, especially now that they've invested in
color electrowetting display technology.
The image is too hazy to figure out the
screen quality and still BeBook's
color eReader prototype is the second most exciting
eReader technology to show up at CES 2010.
As
eReaders have advanced featuring better
color, graphics, water resistance and bigger
screens, dual
screen readers may be the wave of the future.
A $ 440
color eReader with a 9.86 ″
screen is a pretty credible threat to the Kindle DX 2.
This week we'll dig up an item from last week — PocketBook claiming that at CES (Jan, 2011) it will unveil a Mirasol
screen powered
color eReader and that by Q3, 2011 it will have the
color eReader out in the US market.
By the way: With the tolino vision 4 HD
eReader you can even set the
color temperature of the
screen — discover smartLight!
If we could combine all the advanced features of the Sony with the superior
screen quality of the iRex, we could quite possibly have the best
ereader out there — at least until some new
color technology becomes available later this year.
The
Color E Ink display does function a whole lot like grayscale E Ink displays, where the
screen itself is illuminated from ambient light instead of a backlight, and this helps save power while assisting
eReader manufacturers to construct devices that have superior battery life.
The only
eReader currently available with a
color e-Ink screen is the ECTACO JetBook Color, but that is a 9.7» form factor, perfect for text books and newspapers, but a bit big for reading normal novel
color e-Ink
screen is the ECTACO JetBook
Color, but that is a 9.7» form factor, perfect for text books and newspapers, but a bit big for reading normal novel
Color, but that is a 9.7» form factor, perfect for text books and newspapers, but a bit big for reading normal novels on.
In addition to the larger
screen the Aura One is also the first
ereader to feature a frontlight with adjustable
color temperature so that you can filter out blue light if you prefer.
It is therefore unsurprising that when a Digitimes rumor indicated that Amazon was buying up truckloads of
color E Ink
screens in a size that would work in the standard
eReader form, many people took it seriously.
Each
eReader vendor tries to pull from the crowd with distinguishing features such as
color, dual -
screens, and
screen size, etc..
However, their approach is different: for a comparable price build an
eReader with a
color LCD
screen that should offer additional functionality beside just of an eBook reader, very similar with what Apple has done with their iPad but in a form factor more compatible with reading, and for a price also closer to that of a popular eBook reader.
Incorporating a monochrome 9.7 inch Wacom Penabled e-Ink
screen on the left as well as a 10 inch
color resistive touchscreen display on the right, the Pocket eDGE really look a lot different than all the
eReaders that we are accustomed too, the device featuring an interesting clamshell like design.
The Kindle App still works well, and the
color screen will allow for a large variety of content that has as yet been unable to join in on the
eReader fun, but there is a lot more going on.
«During our development of the Alex Reader — a dual
screen eReader that incorporates both E Ink for high contrast
eReading, and
color LCD
screen for multimedia playback and enhanced web browsing, Marvell was the clear choice,» noted Albert Teng, Founder and CTO at Spring Design.