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The ability to be "foldable" is mainly to do with the electronics behind the E-Ink also being flexible (something LCD's can't do, think about pressing your LCD monitor with your finger).

I predict that there will be a robustness problem where the creases are though, just like when you continually flex a paper clip it will enventually break.

frogger: "color, bendable(not foldable) and touchscreen(preferably multi-touch) and i'm in!"

Well color would be great, but all the flexible color E-Papers out there ATM have very poor contrast when displaying colors. It will happen though....eventually.

The main problem with touchscreen on an E-Paper device is how fast it updates. Think about the Sony Reader and how long a page takes to update. If you want touchscreen I would assume you would want some kind of annotation function or hand writing recognition. This would be mostly impossible/rediculously hard to use as the screen would be updating all the time to keep displaying the line you are drawing on screen.

sTEVEN: "does it have a backlight?"

Doesnt look likely, and anyway a backlight wouldnt help much, it would have to be a top light (like the 3rd party addons for the old gameboys). This could be a real issue as I am sure people want to make calls at night.

sTEVEN: "and yeah QVGA is kinda low isnt it? i'd expect VGA instead"

The resolution is down to how well/small they can make their flexible backplane. It is also limited by the size of the E-Ink "balls" that make the colors appear.



Apologies for the rant, I do reckon this technology has a BIG future though......watch this space.


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they kill us with the rings on notebooks and binders, and now even with e-paper we have to deal with a huge gum package like box??? wuts the deal]]>Feb 3rd 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Feb 4th 2008 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/
Why would they make one for left-handers. Left-handers should learn to use their right hand to do everything. Heh-heh.]]>Feb 4th 2008 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Feb 4th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Feb 4th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/
I don't see how you could read books on this thing aswell.....bit of a small screen (even when compared to the sony, which would be nicer if the screen was bigger, would save me increasing the font size in all the time)]]>Feb 5th 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Feb 4th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Images of this thing have been floating 'round these interwebs for months, but they don't show how it actually functions as a phone (except that you can view contacts... oooo). :-\]]>Feb 4th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/$300 is just not the magic price to sell. Maybe $150 -199. I believe the unit must be an aid to reading eMail away from the computer. More reading is done getting thru the memos than reading for pleasure. If it can be done away from desk like the wasted time waiting for face to face meetings Corporations will pay for them.
If Kindle can get newspapers and magazines to chip into the price it might just make it. Before I retired I read $400-600 in subscriptions mandatory for work ( they paid ). Paper and delivery costs money. ]]>Feb 4th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/Feb 4th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/polymer-visions-readius-e-ink-phone-coming-mid-2008-to-italy/sevenOS is OS for sevenfon , sevenLaptop , sevenVatch

http://sevenfon.googlepages.com]]>Mar 20th 2008 12:33AM