Rooting a tablet is one thing but when you root an eInk device it's not like you can magically start watching videos on it, for example; it still has all the physical limitations of
every other eInk device.
One year ago I believed and I still do that if someone were to dethrone Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as eBook leader, it would be Google and not
other eInk reader manufacturers and definitely not Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
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.
My Nook turns pages as fast (maybe faster now with this latest 1.3 update) as
any other eInk device.
I had experience with the Kobo, Kindle and
other eInk eReaders previously, and loved them, but I figured I'd try something sort of between an eReader and a Tablet — well, this thing was neither.
Clearly Pearl is the gold standard of eBook Reader screens, but Vizplex is still the most common screen out there (between used readers, the Nook, and all
the other eInk ereaders available out there.
Yes, that happens with Kindle 3 and
other eInk readers.
My current eReader is a Sony PRS - T1 but what I wrote would also apply to the Kindle 3/4 Touch (not Fire), B & N Nook and a few
other eInk - devices in comparison to the iPAD 3.
Once the pages are cleared out the nook is a fast as
any other eink device.
The eink screen seems to be incredibly smooth (look at 18:00) compared to
any other eink screen I've seen before.
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
The etching that they did on it makes it just as easily readable in direct sunlight as the Paperwhite and
other eInk Kindles.
Not exact matches
My experience with
other tablets is that they are unreadable outside, whereas
eInk devices become even easier to read outside.
That had a
eink screen on one side and LCD on the
other.
Do you read this page and all
other websites using an
eink screen?
eink company is the source for all these displays for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo plus
others.
It's an interesting idea, although I'd hesitate to call it the «ultimate» when it's not much different than
other Android
eInk readers already out there.
The dedicated eReader (with its pitiful
eInk screen and inability to do little
other than read books) was supposed to join the GPS unit, the MP3 player, and the camcorder in the dustbin of history, buried by tablets and smart phones.
Millions of us may have gotten used to the charcoal - on - gray visuals of previous
eInk Kindle displays, and even convinced each
other that they're better for our sleep rhythms than a cup of warm milk before bed.
Pinch and zoom is currently even less usable on
eink than
other displays.
EInk is an entirely different type of screen, they are not fast enough to show video properly and as far as I know are mono colour — I've only seen black but they could probably do
other colours if they wanted to.
It houses two screens — one with an
eInk display, and the
other an LCD — for maximum functionality and flexibility.
Many
other possibilities with the idea of a blank
eInk sheet that you can mount on things, and display anything you want on it as well.
He, like many
other journalists, feels that «it remains to be seen» whether
eInk is better than LCD for reading.
Main advantages —
eInk Pearl screen, much larger 9.7 ″ screen, all the Kindle ecosystem benefits, syncs with Kindle Apps and
other Kindles.
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's no mention of the screen — don't see how it could be anything
other than the new
eInk pearl screen.
I mean if the
eInk screen lasts soo long that you do nt have to charge it for 8 weeks, then why does nt the Kindle Fire have the same screen or any
other tablet pc for that matter.
Kindle 3 and Kindle WiFi have a lot of improvements — if you had Kindle 2 and Kindle 3 (or Kindle WiFi) to choose from the
eInk Pearl screen and
other improvements would probably result in you choosing to read on the Kindle 3.
Two interesting bits of Kindle news today — one concerning
eInk and its appalling lack of evolution, the
other concerning the Kindle Tablet.
Then we submitted the app (works for all
eInk Kindles except Kindle Touch) and just last week Amazon says — You might as well do some
other app, because this app will take 3 months to approve.
If the thing really lags a lot between the two screens — and it's not inconceivable given that one screen refreshes at LCD speed and the
other refreshes at
eInk speed — then it's going to make the dual screen UI a pain to use.
There's been no significant jump in
eInk technology
other than the touch screen (I'd argue that's a pretty big jump in itself — from book to book + journal.
The following video from Bridgestone outlines some of the benefits of QR - LPD, but unfortunately there are no comparisons made to
eInk or
other persistent display tech.
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 Color.
There is the possibility that a completely different display technology (something
other than
eInk and LCD) takes over.
Killer Features — Well, across the various eReaders we have Library Books, Accessibility,
eInk Pearl, Read to Me, Lend Me, Amazing battery life, much improved page turn speeds, changeable font sizes, respectable PDF support, good browsers (Nook and Kindle), support for more and more languages, touch and free hand drawing, great size, low weight, and a few
other killer features.
For
others (and I'm in this category), reading on a dedicated
eink reader is a much better reading experience.
Kindle 3 in August 2010 is $ 189 (with a $ 139 Kindle WiFi option), there's really good PDF support, 1 month battery life (double), double the memory, much faster page turns, international availability, rotation support, the new
eInk Pearl screen, and a dozen
other improvements (especially in fonts).
Sure,
eInk is great in the sun, but as I like to say, if it's a sunny day I'd rather be doing something
other than sitting around reading!
On the
other hand, don't kid yourself into thinking a color
eInk device will replace a tablet.
The Kindle would suddenly have this
eInk screen which is better for reading than any
other screen technology and is also foldable.
In a way all of us readers are helping take
eInk to a stage where it is cheap enough to power lots of
other uses.
It might be a long time before
other screen technologies could compete with foldable, flexible
eInk screens.
While
eInk and every
other ePaper technology (except Bridgestone) have been talking about color in 2011 or 2012, Fujitsu released their super-expensive color eReader in Japan earlier this year.
I have been waiting patiently for Sony to get caught up with the rest of the universe, so I didn't buy any of the
other frontlight
eink readers because IMO none of them can compete with Sony's advanced software (especially with pdf files).
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.
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.
It's a dual - book design that gives you a normal color - screen display on one side and an
eInk display for eBook reading on the
other.
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.