eReaders have to deal with
slow page refreshes, lack of color, lack of support for video, and other limitations.
Not exact matches
If you're planning to read news with it, then stick with your phone — unless you have the patience of a saint, you're not going to like the
slow refresh rate when navigating apps and web
pages, and you're going to want to see photos in full color instead if boring grayscale.
You can turn
pages as fast as you wish on a Kindle (actually one of the complaints about the device has been that screen
refresh is a little
slow, but let's ignore that quibble) without ever worrying about this eReader bursting into flames.
If you swipe
pages left / right it is really
slow and the
refresh on the
page turn is disjointing.
The main drawbacks this review mentions is there's no re-flow mode for PDFs and the bookstore speed was
slow in loading book covers and
refreshing pages — perhaps a poor 3G connection.
Grayscale eInk displays have extremely sharp text and extremely long battery life, because they only send power to the screen when changing
pages, but they are grayscale right now and their
refresh rates are a bit
slow.
As you can see in my video,
page turns and eInk
refreshing was just slightly
slower than my Nook.
Magazines feel awkward to read as they're full
page scans and any zooming feels
slow due to the e-ink
refresh rate
But it's still expensive to manufacture, only available in black and white, and suffers from
slow screen
refresh rates which affect things like scrolling and video (not possible currently), and leads to the annoying flash seen when turning
pages on ebook readers.
That
slow downloading also made
page refresh slower on the BlackBerry when scrolling.
Moving around a
page using the cursor and selecting links is
slow and the need to constantly zoom in and out with
page refreshing means it will never offer the user experience that you'll get from a decent mobile phone browser.
For basic interactions like navigating the UI, swiping
pages, and rotating the screen, and even typing, it's just a little
slower than using a regular touchscreen, other than a quick flash of black when the Kindle needs to
refresh the entire panel.
Page refresh is considerably
slower with color.
No — like we said, its
page -
refreshes are a little
slow, and for a device that's all about the business of reading, that's no small thing....
Swiping between
pages is quick, but the screen is kind of
slow to
refresh and bring up the menus when you tap the screen.
For basic interactions like navigating the UI, swiping
pages, and rotating the screen, and even typing, it's just a little
slower than using a regular touchscreen, other than a quick flash of black when the Kindle needs to
refresh the entire panel.