Japan has been a hotspot for new ereaders lately with the recent releases of Sony’s new ereaders and Sharp’s Galapagos tablets. And now Japan is getting another new ereader on December 25th, the Toshiba Biblio Leaf SP02, the first solar-powered ereader to reach the market.
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E Ink’s Pearl Displays are Winning Awards
E Ink, the company that makes the screens for the majority of dedicated ebook readers, announced today that their new Pearl displays have won the Best Commercialization Award at the fourth annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards. This marks the second award this month. On December 1st E Ink announced that their Pearl display were selected […]
LG Demos New Color ePaper Displays (Videos)
LG decided to show off two new color epaper displays at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan on Wednesday alongside E Ink’s new Triton color epaper display technology. The first LG color epaper prototype has a 9.7-inch display with a pixel resolutions of 800 x 600—seemingly low for the large screen size. The […]
Triton Color ePaper Technology Unveiled by E Ink
Yesterday it was announced that Hanvon, the leading ereader supplier in China, will be the first company to offer a color ebook reader that uses an E Ink display. Later in the day E Ink revealed the details of the color epaper by issuing a press release to announce the release of its next generation […]
Hanvon to Release the First Color E Ink eReader
Color E Ink is finally almost here. Hanvon, the largest ereader company in China with roughly 78% of the market share, is set to announce the first color E Ink ereader for release in China, which will be available in March of 2011. The Hanvon color ereader will be the first of its kind, and […]
SiPix vs E Ink – eReader Screen Technologies Compared
This SiPix vs E Ink review compares the Kindle 3 and Kobo WiFi’s E Ink screens with the new Pandigital Novel’s SiPix screen.
Pearl vs Vizplex: Are the New High Contrast Pearl Screens Overrated?
Ever since Amazon announced the Graphite Kindle DX, the first ebook reader to have the new Pearl display from E Ink, the issue of higher contrast has been getting a lot of attention. All the press releases regarding the new Kindles, along with Amazon’s website, and E Ink themselves state that the new Pearl displays […]
Qualcomm Invests $2 Billion for Mirasol Color Displays
According to an article at DigiTimes, Qualcomm has found a major client for their 5.7″ color displays. So major that they are willing to invest $2 billion to build a new production plant in Taiwan. So the big question is who is the major client? Given the fact that the article says this, the displays […]