While Amazon likes to obfuscate this fact, the underlying black and
white electronic ink display in the Paperwhite isn't made by Amazon, but its old partner (and holder of many patents on the technology) E Ink.
The Nook costs 259 dollars — the same price as the basic Kindle — and features a black - and -
white electronic ink display for reading books and a color touchpad for navigation.
Not exact matches
Another major disadvantage is that most
electronic ink displays are currently black and
white.
Amazon insists that when it comes to reading e-books, the device that does it best is the Kindle and its black - and -
white electronic ink screen is better than the iPad's backlit color LCD
display, which Bezos says causes eye strain.
E
Ink shows Yotaphone 2 now mass produced Smartphone with curved flexible E
Ink always - on back
display, 32» 2560x1440 color and black and
white E
Ink Pearl by GDS for Digital Signage for train stations, bus stops, stores, waterproof and break - proof, E
Ink as
Electronic Shelf Tags having sold over 30 million units thus far in the past 2 years (100 % growth yr / yr) thus potentially selling over 40 million units in 2015 alone if the growth continues at the same rate!
As you push the button to flip the page, an
electronic charge rearranges all the E
Ink micro-capsules to either
white or black to
display the text on the screen.
The puzzle piece: E
Ink's 9.7»
electronic paper
display, with drivers (colored orange and
white) located alongside the whole length of both sides of the rectangular screen.
The most common solution to
displaying color on e
ink had traditionally been a color filter array overlaid over a black and
white electronic paper screen.
Capsules filled with negatively and positively charged particles color the surface of an
electronic paper
display black or
white when an electric charge is applied (Image source: E
Ink ®)
With the high technology of putting layers of plastic film inside
electronic circuitry that hold
electronic ink, the end result can
display thousands of eBooks in black and
white on a non-glare
display.