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Something I'm personally excited about: colour e-ink displays. There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($

by meew0 3y ago

Something I'm personally excited about: colour e-ink displays. There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). So far the colour reproduction and refresh rate is still somewhat suboptimal, but development appears to be progressing rapidly. I predict that in a few years there will be little reason to get a conventional tablet over an e-ink one, at least for the “reading and taking notes” use case.

gateorade 3y ago
I agree with this and would even go as far as to say color E-INK screens are basically ready to push out greyscale ones right now. The problem is that no one is making a device with them that's any good. I owned one of the boox color e-ink devices for like a week and the experience was awful because it's a full android os shoehorned into something that kind of works on an e-ink display.
thih9 3y ago
> There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). Which ones are you referring to? Are they complete and ready to ship products? Or is that a DIY project / kickstarter?
- meew0 3y ago
  Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc
  - spondylosaurus 3y ago
    Bought one of the monochrome Boox readers a while back and love it—the Google Play Books compatibility is what sold me. I thought about splurging for a full-color model but wasn't sure whether the tech was there yet. Do you think it's worth the upgrade or should I hold off a little longer?
    - idontwantthis 3y ago
      I compared the two in a store and color was not good. IMO if you want color just get a real tablet. Color e ink is the worst of LCD and e ink. It’s slow and ugly and eats battery life and hurts your eyes in the dark.
RobotToaster 3y ago
High enough quality ones could finally make digital photo frames practical.

by meew0 3y ago

gateorade 3y ago

I agree with this and would even go as far as to say color E-INK screens are basically ready to push out greyscale ones right now. The problem is that no one is making a device with them that's any good. I owned one of the boox color e-ink devices for like a week and the experience was awful because it's a full android os shoehorned into something that kind of works on an e-ink display.

thih9 3y ago

> There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). Which ones are you referring to? Are they complete and ready to ship products? Or is that a DIY project / kickstarter?

meew0 3y ago
Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc
- spondylosaurus 3y ago
  Bought one of the monochrome Boox readers a while back and love it—the Google Play Books compatibility is what sold me. I thought about splurging for a full-color model but wasn't sure whether the tech was there yet. Do you think it's worth the upgrade or should I hold off a little longer?
  - idontwantthis 3y ago
    I compared the two in a store and color was not good. IMO if you want color just get a real tablet. Color e ink is the worst of LCD and e ink. It’s slow and ugly and eats battery life and hurts your eyes in the dark.

RobotToaster 3y ago

High enough quality ones could finally make digital photo frames practical.