Comments on: Could Qualcomm’s color-capable display tech beat out E Ink for e-book screens?

By: Joshua Tallent

Joshua Tallent — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:52:34 +0000

Wow, sorry about the mis-attribution abhi. Looks like I am making lots of apologies today…. Better proofreading next time, I promise.

- Joshua

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:20:02 +0000

Fixed, Abhi, as long as you got there first. Thanks! David

By: abhi

abhi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:09:07 +0000

hey – it’s not Mike Cane, it’s abhi for ireaderreview. thanks.

By: Windwalker

Windwalker — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:35:12 +0000

Thanks, Joshua. I appreciate your addressing this so promptly and graciously, and I certainly understand how easily such things occur.

Cheers,
Windwalker

By: Joshua Tallent of eBookArchitects.com

Joshua Tallent of eBookArchitects.com — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:28:07 +0000

Steve,

You are completely correct. I have revised my post above. Please accept my sincerest apologies.

- Joshua

By: Windwalker

Windwalker — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:54:29 +0000

Hi Joshua, I don’t mind being called “wrong” and I don’t mind being misquoted, but I’ll admit it gets my Irish up a wee bit when someone misquotes me and then calls me wrong for what he said I said. Fortunately I am a lenient judge, and your sentence is nothing more than to go back and read my post and then make the appropriate correction in yours. To help you get started, here is what I said about the possibility of a color screen for the Kindle at any time before 2011:

“2009 Kindle-Compatible TouchTablet
* Although bloggers have been buzzing for months about a large-form Kindle (first in 2008, and then, when that didn’t happen, in 2009), most of this buzz has been self-feeding, and I admit that I’ll be happily surprised, but still surprised, if there is a large-form e-Ink Kindle display in 2009. Maybe he needed to be more reticent about events closer to launch date, but Wilcox didn’t even mention 2009. He was very specific in mentioning 2010 and 2011.
* Much more likely: a large-form, backlit, energy-intensive, high-end Kindle-compatible iPod TouchTablet with a price point in the $599-$699 range.”

Cheers,
Windwalker

By: Garson O'Toole

Garson O'Toole — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:51 +0000

Thanks for the information on the Mirasol display. Technology Review has a very recent article about yet another contender for “astounding display of the future”. Below are excerpts from the article titled “A New E-Paper Competitor”:

A new display technology could make electronic paper look more like the real thing. Conventional ink on paper has a much higher brightness and black-and-white color contrast than electronic paper. The new display, made by researchers at the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, is designed to match the brilliance and contrast of paper. … The pixels also switch between black and white within one millisecond, making the technology suitable for video. … So far, Heikenfeld and his colleagues have made rigid black-and-white displays that reflect 55 percent of ambient light--far more than any electronic-paper products currently on the market. … The pixels are as small as 100 micrometers wide, giving the display a resolution of 300 dots per inch.