He also confirms that the $ 79 entry - level Kindle
uses an infrared touchscreen instead of capacitive like the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage.
Another difference, the more expensive Kindles have capacitive touchscreens whereas this one
uses an infrared touchscreen.
Like its predecessors, the PRS - T2
uses an infrared touchscreen that is very responsive and generally works exceptionally well.
The Kobo Mini doesn't need buttons because
it uses an infrared touchscreen, which generally works well most the time but occasionally I have to press things more than once to get a response — that's not something typically encountered on other ebook readers with infrared touchscreens.
It still
uses an infrared touchscreen and doesn't have any physical page turning buttons.
The Kobo Glo
uses an infrared touchscreen and the Kindle uses a capacitive touchscreen.
This is because the Nook
uses an infrared touchscreen instead of capacitive.
The Glo
uses infrared touchscreen technology from Neonode.
This is likely the result of the Aura HD
using an infrared touchscreen and the Boox using a capacitive screen that adds a layer over the text.
Maybe Onyx should go back to
using infrared touchscreens...
The Nook and Kobo
both use an infrared touchscreen for navigation, instead of a keyboard and buttons.
By comparison, the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Kobo eReader Touch Edition -LRB--RRB- each shave an inch off the overall height; the Nook and Kobo
both use an infrared touchscreen for navigation, instead of a keyboard and buttons.
I've heard of that sometimes happening with ereaders that
use infrared touchscreens but the Kindle Paperwhite has a capacitive screen.
Since K4T will
use infrared touchscreen, it will not affect screen quality.
In PRS - 350, Sony
used infrared touchscreen technology that doesn't require anything being put on top of the screen.
Not exact matches
It
uses the same
infrared touchscreen, and it has the same exact 800 x 600 resolution E Ink Pearl display.
Like the Kobo, the Nook
uses Neonode's Zeforce
infrared touch layer to provide a
touchscreen interface.
The Kindle
uses almost 40 buttons to navigate through the interface and menus, while the new Nook and Kobo
use zForce
Infrared Touch technology to create a
touchscreen layer on top of the E Ink screen.
We weren't given time to
use the
touchscreen much ourselves, but judging from the one - on - one demo with a Barnes and Noble rep, the
infrared ring
used to detect touch input seemed to be finnicky, occasionally requiring multiple taps or swipes get the Simple Touch Reader to respond.
Nook's
touchscreen uses the same Neonode
infrared touchscreen technology the Sony and Kobo ereaders
use, and it seems surprisingly reactive, especially the keyboard.
The
touchscreen technology is
using Infrared, courtesy of Neonode.
Instead, the
touchscreen uses infrared to detect input.
Like Amazon, Barnes & Noble has moved from an
infrared - based
touchscreen to a more responsive capacitive
touchscreen (Amazon's entry - level Kindle still
uses infrared but both the Paperwhite and Voyage have more advanced
touchscreens.)
Another hardware change with the Paperwhite is it
uses a capacitive
touchscreen instead of
infrared like most other
touchscreen ebook readers, including the Kindle Touch from last year.
Instead the Nook 2 will have a
touchscreen similar to Sony's ereaders, which
use NeoNode's zForce
infrared technology.
Like the Kobo Touch that was announced yesterday, the new Nook Touch
uses Neonode's zForce technology for the
touchscreen, which
uses infrared to detect input.
I imagine it
uses the same
infrared touchscreen technology from Neonode as the previous models did since Neonode's technology supports multi-touch, the other Readers just weren't setup for it.
They were both released about the same time, both have 6» E Ink Pearl screens,
use NeoNode's
infrared touchscreens, have 2 GB of internal memory, microSD card slots, WiFi, Adobe DRM support, and both share a number of software features too.
The Kobo Glo also has an HD screen with a resolution of 1024 x 758, and like the Kobo Touch, it
uses infrared technology for the
touchscreen.
Using NeoNode's zForce
infrared technology for the
touchscreen, the Kobo Touch features a 6 - inch E Ink Pearl display with 50 % improved contrast over earlier E Ink screens.
The
touchscreen uses NeoNode's zForce
infrared technology to detect input and is very responsive and easy to
use with either a finger or the included stylus pen.
The Kindle Touch
uses the same type of
infrared touchscreen technology as the Nook, Kobo, and Sony Readers.
Navigation and user input is via a
touchscreen facility which is implemented
using a network of
infrared beams slightly above the screen surface.