Color E Ink has been out for over a year now, and finally the first ebook reader to use color E Ink is about to arrive here in the United States.

I’ve posted about it before; the device is called the jetBook Color, and is aimed at the eduction market, not the ebook reader market. It is more of an educational tool designed for textbooks rather ebooks, but it will display ebooks as well.

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Remember the JetBook Color? I first posted about it back in early September.

It is a 9.7″ ereader and is the first to come with a color E Ink screen. It is currently available in Russia and Ukraine as part of a government subsidized project and is expected to come to the US and Europe in a “few months”, according to Jerry Cimadomo in the second video below.

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The Ectaco JetBook Color is among the first devices on the planet to use a color E Ink display. These displays, called E Ink Triton, use the same exact type of technology devices like the Kindle and Nook use, but have a filter over the top that gives the screen the ability to display thousands of colors.

Like their monochrome brethren, color E Ink screens are very energy efficient because power isn’t needed to maintain the image on the screen, just when turning pages and refreshing the screen. Thus a battery charge can last up to 10,000 page turns.

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