What’s Happening at Pixel Qi – Mary Lou Jepsen’s Blog
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August 26, 2009 at 9:43 am ·
Above is a comparison between the new Pixel Qi screen and other screens available – enjoy! – Mary Lou
Notion Ink Tegra Android smartpad uses Pixel Qi display
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Friday, Dec 18th 2009
The Notion Ink smartpad measures 6.3 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches and weighs 1.7lbs; as well as the triband (850/1900/2100) UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR it also squeezes in A-GPS, a digital compass, accelerometer and proximity, ambient light and water sensors. Connectivity includes USB, HDMI, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microphone input, and there’s also a 3-megapixel autofocus camera with video recording support. Onboard storage is either 16GB or 32GB of SSD, and there’s an SD slot for augmenting that.
Initially – at least as it’s to be shown at CES – the smartpad will use the regular Android UI, with full gesture support. Navigation is either via the touchscreen or a trackpad, and Notion Ink have added a matte-finish anti-glare, oleophobic and scratch-resistant coating to the Pixel Qi display. Of course, the panel itself can be viewed indoors as a regular LCD, or outdoors in either transflective mode with reduced color vibrancy or fully reflective 64-level grayscale mode. Notion Ink say they’ve been developing a number of applications that should be added sometime after CES, including Office-style software, Flash-based titles and some graphics apps that include physics-based functionality. Ebook reading is also another possibility, and the company are in talks with several (unnamed) content providers.
Perhaps most importantly for a web-browsing tablet, battery life estimates are impressive.
What’s Happening at Pixel Qi – Mary Lou Jepsen’s Blog
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August 26, 2009 at 9:43 am ·
Above is a comparison between the new Pixel Qi screen and other screens available – enjoy! – Mary Lou
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