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Somebody has to be the first to try it and spend som R&D on trying to get it to work. During the last summers I've been reading and commenting at HN and other
by osivertsson 12y ago
Somebody has to be the first to try it and spend som R&D on trying to get it to work.
During the last summers I've been reading and commenting at HN and other forums at the beach with the lousy browser on my ultra-slow Sony PRS-T1 e-book reader.
It's a pretty terrible experince, agreed. Scrolling and waiting for eink refresh every now and then, text input is laggy. Still I do it since it is so easy to read in sunlight!
I'm sure with a faster CPU to render webpages quicker and some engineering ingenuity to perhaps allow quicker refreshes but lower contrast it could become a real product for early adopters.
I'd be willing to pay $500 for something that is just a step above the current terrible level, and if it works great and is hackable maybe $1000.
- cdjk 12y agoI'm disappointed the Pixel Qi screens haven't become more popular. Sol Computer (http://www.solcomputer.com/ http://www.solcomputer.com/) makes a few devices with them, but they're overpriced and underpowered from what I can tell. Otherwise their sunlight performance would be great.