An 8 - inch LCD
infrared touch - screen enables users to display information from their smartphones.
It does not have a capacitive touchscreen, instead it employs
Infrared Touch technology by Neonode.
ClarityScreen + is also an incredibly responsive touchscreen with
Infrared Touch (IR Touch).
Kobo uses Neonode's zForce
infrared touch technology, the same as on the Nook.
THE KOBO TOUCH — NEWLY REDUCED TO # 79.99 Built by booklovers for booklovers, the Kobo Touch offers a best - in - class reading experience, with an amazing touch experience that uses
Infrared Touch Technology, allowing readers to easily swipe or tap to turn pages.
One of the cool aspects of the Kobo Touch Edition is that it uses Neonode's new zForce
infrared touch technology to make reading on Kobo just like reading a real book.
The Glo (and newest Glo HD) are
both infrared touch.
They always make it sound as if Sony copied Kobo and Nook with
the infrared touch screen... when Sony had it available A FULL YEAR before the others.
My Kindle Touch has
infrared touch and I can pinch and zoom in eBooks... So the ability to zoom seems to not only depend on the type of screen.
It employs Neonode
Infrared Touch and does not have a front - light.
The screen is powered by
infrared touch, which means you can not pinch and zoom, it only registers single presses.
The screen is powered by
infrared touch and allows you to pinch and zoom PDF documents.
Instead of going with
infrared touch, Pocketbook made the decision to go with a capacitive touchscreen display.
Infrared touch will not only monitor your finger but will also allow you to use a stylus or pen to draw.
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.
It features
an Infrared Touch or IR touch that drastically enhances the touchscreen sensitivity and makes interacting with the screen a pure delight.
To be fair to Sony e-readers, which for numerous reasons — both hardware and software — are lightyears superior to all other e-readers, you should point out that they were FIRST with
the infrared touch.
A pretty cool looking electronic ink display by the looks of things,
infrared touch interface, longer battery life, access to millions of books, X-Ray and more.
I don't get it: every time you mention Sony e-readers, you point out that
their infrared touch system is the same as the Kobo and Kindle touch models, as if Sony was copying them.
Uses
infrared touch technology which means that there are infrared sensors that perceive your finger (or other object) within... more >
They retain the 6 - inch, 167 - PPI e-ink display of the 2010 Kindle model, with the addition of
an infrared touch - screen control on the Touch.
The beautifully designed Touch Edition uses
infrared touch technology to make the experience of reading on the Kobo Touch just like that of reading a real book.
Infrared touch technology is far slower and more inaccurate.
Previous generations of the Kindle used
an infrared touch technology where infrared sensors where placed at the edge of the bezel.
The Nook's display is touch - enabled and uses
an infrared touch technology similar to that on Sony's latest Readers.
The touch zones are indeed bigger — the next page action is pretty easy to hit from anywhere you might be holding it, and
the infrared touch sensor seems fairly responsive thus far.
The device will feature a 6» e-ink pearl display with
an infrared touch screen sensor.
The Kobo Touch has a 6 - inch E Ink Pearl screen with
infrared touch, 1 GB of usable memory, an SD card slot, web browser, notes, highlights, bookmarks, partial page refresh, dictionary look up, social network sharing, reading awards, and it supports Adobe DRM for ePub and PDF as well HTML, TXT, RTF, CBZ, CBR, MOBI, and PRC formats.
Based on the device weight and claimed battery life, I'm guessing that it would have the same capacity as in Kindle Keyboard or more to accommodate for
infrared touch screen power use.
The Kobo eReader Touch Edition integrates Neonode's zForce
infrared touch technology a 6 - inch E-Ink Pearl display (same as found on Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader).
The Simple Touch is a Wi - Fi only Nook, with
an infrared touch - screen, E Ink technology, and battery life of up to two months (or 150 hours, offering approximately 25,000 continuous page turns with Wi - Fi turned off).
The new Kobo Touch Edition sports a Zeforce
infrared touch screen coupled with Pearl eInk technology.
Amazon just announced the Kindle Touch, which uses
an infrared touch display.
Like the Nook Simple Touch before it, the Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight uses Neonode's Zeforce
infrared touch technology.
Bezos also unveiled a $ 99 Kindle Touch, a smaller Kindle e-reader with
an infrared touch display.
Weighing in at just 168 grams, the Reader Wi - Fi features: a 6 ″ E-Ink Pearl screen with 600 x 800 pixels of resolution and 16 levels of gray scale; a clear touch
infrared touch screen; 2 GB of built - in memory and a MicroSD slot that can take up to a 32 GB memory card.
As well as ebook readers,
Infrared touch screen technology is also used in Mobile phones, Tablets and other touch enabled devices.
Infrared touch technology can be applied on any flat surface like a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Organic Light Emitting Diode Displays (OLED), Electronic Paper Displays (EPD) such a E-Ink, and Mouse Pad.
«Amazon's new color e-book readers will be built with multi-touch capacitive touch panels instead of
infrared touch
And in the case of capacitive and
infrared touch screen e-readers, the top glass layer is susceptible to shattering by sharp knocks.
The market itself is telling us that
infrared touch technology is the best for e-readers.
Both use the same Neonode
infrared touch technology for their touch screens along with E Ink's latest Pearl display that's also found in the Kindle and Sony readers.
Infrared Touch screen technology incorporates some of the best functionalities of both the capacitive and resistive touch screen technologies and does not require an additional layers on the display.
There seems to be trend developing for ebook readers to embrace
infrared touch screen technology.
Sony was actually the first to license and include Neonode's
infrared touch - screen technology in last year's PRS - 350, PRS - 650, and PRS - 950 Readers.
«Amazon's new color e-book readers will be built with multi-touch capacitive touch panels instead of
infrared touch panels used in the previous mono - color e-book readers», the sources noted.
In all current touch screen ebook readers
the infrared touch screen technology used is called zForce, provided by Neonode.
Intuitive controls using
Infrared Touch Screen technology, to allow swipes to turn pages, highlighting of phrases, tap words to lookup words in the builtin dictionary, gesture zoom of images, and increase font sizes.
For its future e-readers, Amazon will be using multi-touch capacitive touch panels, if Digitimes» sources prove reliable, instead of
the infrared touch panels used in the first four generations of the Kindle reader.