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Damnit. This was one technology that just kills me never acheived any market success. I had bought an OLPC through the buy/give program and sent the OLPC to my
by peatmoss 8y ago
Damnit.
This was one technology that just kills me never acheived any market success. I had bought an OLPC through the buy/give program and sent the OLPC to my neice (after I poked around at the device—I was VERY curious about the device).
The part that was truly flooring to me was the screen. It was much faster than e-ink and, for the time, quite high resolution in its grayscale mode.
As I read through this article, it’s like a graveyard of dreams past. Mirasol is another I’d forgotten about that I remember thinking would be ubiquitous.
- raphinou 8y agoI also hoped it would bring screens readable in solar light to the market. I still miss it regularly and am always surprised not more people want this!
- Erlich_Bachman 8y agoIt looks like it is already solved with just very high brightness on regular screens. Using a flagman phone, I can't remember a single time using it in the past when the sunlight was a problem.
- rbanffy 8y agoFor How long can you use you phone in direct sunlight? Mine is readable when it sets itself to full brightness, but that will eat away the battery really fast. A transreflective screen will use less battery in direct sunlight.
- askvictor 8y agoEven in the highest brightness on a recent AMOLED phone, if the sun is shining on it directly (i.e. sun is over your shoulder), you can't see the contents of the screen, in large part due to the reflection on the very shiny screen (which needs to be shiny for maximum brightness). In these circumstances you need to position your phone into your shadow (maybe you do this instinctively and don't notice) And that says nothing of the battery consumption (pixel qi tech switches off the backlight in 'outdoor' mode so power draw is even less)
- Erlich_Bachman 8y agoI guess it sure seems like there are different usage patterns and some people are really experiencing this still being an issue? I can see how some people might need to be using it really in direct sunlight where reflection can't be tweaked away by rotating the phone just a couple of degrees (which I think I do without even thinking about it). So you're right, the current screen tech has not completely solved sunlight problem.
- ianai 8y agoI’m more concerned about always having to have a backlight. I guess people just don’t care enough.
- nicoburns 8y agoI was personally hoping for something to come fmor Qualcomm's Mirasol tech. https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-over-qualcomms-imod-mirasol-display-lab-in-taiwan https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...