Sentences with phrase «of eink devices»

The refresh rate of eink devices is fairly slow.

Kindle 3 is the latest generation of eink device from Amazon.

Not exact matches

At night, I turn the brightness down all the way, and the Kindle app has an invert mode where it puts white on black background instead of black on white background, so it's pretty dark, and I found that a pretty comfortable experience and certainly preferable to my previous way of reading in the dark which was getting out a little AA battery — powered book light that I had to clip onto my Kindle — which seemed so backward that you have to have a second electronic device attached to your first electronic device — but [the] eInk screen on the Kindle doesn't light itself.

But, for a variety of reasons, some people want an eink device.

I think that would help to put a lot of people's minds at ease since a lot of the apps out there will not function properly on the various eink devices currently running older versions of Android.

yes, eink lasts a lot longer, but this will be more a professional device than a casual device and as such battery life of a day is sufficient in most use scenarios.

No one, at the time of the publication of your article, has shipped a color EInk device.

Yes, eink screens are better on the eyes, but you're asking me to pay a lot of $ $ $ for a device that can ONLY read static content?

Our first CES 2010 post of the day is the press release by Spring Designs of their new eInk / LCD combo eBook reading device, The Alex. The device features a 6 - inch eInk screen at 600 × 800 resolution and a 3.5 - inch LCD display with a 320 × 480 resolution.

Key features include the Android OS and wireless connectivity to surf the internet, listen to music, or watch video on the LCD screen portion of the device while reading on the eInk screen above.

Nook 1 was built up by the Press as the most amazing device ever — a combination of LCD and eInk.

Few manufacturers of eink readers have demonstrated an understanding of what an ereader should be like as well as Kobo has with this device.

All we need to connect the dots is a slap on plug»n' play eink screen and a carefully selected device of your liking (something lightweight for me).

student sale for such a limited device in terms of intuitivity, when there is only one reason to buy it - the eink screen.

• Anyway I'm still going to buy one when it (finally) comes to market in USA — the new device appears to be the most polished piece of eInk «paper» we're likely to see for years to come.

Lol Jake... the Sony DPT - RP1 and the ReMarkable devices are as good as eInk gets... your expectations are unrealistic and betray your lack of understanding of how eInk works.

We know that, unlike the LCD screens, with eInk based devices you are out of luck in the dark.

There are «millions» of apps which will install and work on an eink device running Android 4.0.4?

I find the interesting is Kindle is a dedicated reading device & owners convert quickly to the ease, convenience and the ability of its eInk screen to display is well l in sunlight.Thanks for this review.

It looks like they managed to control better the way the eInk micro encapsulated droplets are coming together because if you look closely at continuous black surfaces, they have a more uniform coverage while in the case of older generation eInk devices the coverage has more gaps.

There may be millions of Android apps out there, but it's unlikely that the vast majority of them would work on your device or on any other eink device running Android 4.0.4

You don't have to buy the premium tier top of the line device to read and folks have been bitching about them not innovating at all with eInk Kindles lately.

The media queries make a lot of sense with Amazon essentially bifurcating their offerings into plain vanilla Kindle files for the eInk devices and enhanced multi-media and fixed layout offerings in KF8.

This guide covers the absolute basics of how to view them and how you can copy a file over to your device, how to send it wirelessly and how you can set up your eink screen for more optimum reading.

Amazon wants to ramp up production of 9.7 ″ eInk screens for a dual screen LCD + eInk device.

For best all - around versatility and ability to do everything I'm looking for a 7in tablet seems to fit, instead of getting a dedicated ereader like an eInk device and a separate netbook for web surfing with gaming & videos.

And there are plenty of other possibilities, including even the possibility of a dual screen tablet / eInk combo, but we'd rather see Amazon focus on making each of these very different devices, as well as the Kindle phone that will surely follow, as good as it can be.

There are some good reasons for Amazon to stay focused on the Kindle — The Kindle Tablet can't hit the $ 100 or even the $ 200 mark, hardcore readers want dedicated eReaders, LCD can't touch eInk when it comes to battery life or readability, 80 % of book sales are to 20 % of the people buying books and those people want dedicated reading devices.

Despite Bezos» insistence that he doesn't need his customers on the «upgrade treadmill», Amazon released an upgrade to pretty much every single one of their devices, including two new Kindle Fire tablets and the predicted backlit eInk reader.

As with those trailblazing computers, the eInk devices are still capable of displaying your picture beautifully — just not in color.

Improved CSS We've made some tweaks to PressBooks CSS files, which improve certain things, particularly: paragraph indenting (or not) on Kindle eink devices, and handling of images & floats.

How much of the Kindle's success is due to the instant delivery, cheaper prices, and the service; as opposed to the device itself and the eInk technology.

Once you install it, find it after it's installed, and figure out how to download and view your book with it, you must inspect it carefully to find mistakes on all of the devices (like the different eInks, the different Fires, and the iPad and iPhone).

We received quite a few replies from readers but one of the more interesting ones said they'd like to have apps like Flipboard, Zite and Pulse on their eInk device.

While there, they discovered the prototype of an oddly familiar eInk device.

eInk dies while tablets reign — It's no secret that sales of dedicated e-reading devices, mostly featuring the eInk display technology, are fading.

One of those devices (from Ectaco) featured a color eInk display.

Perhaps you aren't aware that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of apps («Active Content») for Kindle eink devices, and new ones show up continuously.

Nook Color is a great device that misses out on the two things that most make eReaders like books — eInk and a lack of distractions.

If they'd drop their damn mutant DRM, I think sales would soar — and so would their eBook sales to owners of other eInk devices that use «standard» Adobe DRM.

IRex says it is on track to have a color version of the device by 2011, something that other vendors, which rely on technology from eInk, a subsidiary of Prime View International of Taiwan, say is years away.

Oprah Winfrey ignited a new wave of Kindle love when she devoted a show to the little eInk gadget in late October 2008, and Amazon further cemented its dominant role with new Kindle models in early 2009 and mid-2010 and free apps that allow readers to «buy once, read anywhere» on any computer, smartphone or handheld device.

The ability to annotate, highlight, and share one's thoughts with others have been limited in these eink devices because of the slowness in which eink renders.

There's still a strong market for eReaders, of course, as their eInk displays and ridiculously long battery life are generally preferred by those who just want to read things on a tablet device.

What the new development of software platforms also tell me is that existing eink devices can not support these software advancements and that the new generation of digital book readers will exist, even in their dedicated device forms, in something other than the linux based eink devices that we know of today.

This is a fairly basic device featuring a six inch Pearl eInk display with 800 x 600 resolution, 4 GB of storage (expandable to 32 GB) and a 400 MHz processor.

The second device is the Libro Lux which features the same Pearl eInk display but this time with built in lighting, 4 GB of storage (expandable to 32 GB) and a faster 600 MHz processor.

As with all eInk technology there is still that kind of photo negative look when turning pages (but this only happens when it refreshes every 6 pages), it is less noticeable on this device as the page turns are faster than on other eReaders including the new Kindles.

I don't think the iPad is a Kindle killer (or dedicated eink device) because I think the primary purpose of the iPad is not long form narrative reading.

That said, it won't hold as much of a charge as a typical eInk device (i.e. Kobo, Sony, or the famous Kindle) which can generally hold a charge for reading for weeks (I've heard 2 - 3 weeks is typical, whereas mine lasts within about 1.5 weeks), whereas this would require (in typical conditions) daily charges.