Another-product-with-a-bad-name alert
Posted on 10/27/2010 8:47:56 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The first generation Nook made use of a main e-ink display for books and a smaller color panel directly below for navigation. The new NOOKcolor, however, does away with e-ink altogether and uses a seven-inch, 16 million color, 600 x 1024 "VividView" IPS display (169 ppi). Due to its full-color display, battery life takes a hit, coming in at only eight hours of reading time when Wi-Fi (802.11g/n) is disabled (the original Nook can last for ten days with Wi-Fi off).
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
May have the name wrong...maybe it is the Pixel Qi screen....
Article:
E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi's Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It [Ereader]
Where are these?
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by mary_lou_jepsen on December 7th, 2009
Our first production batch of screens will be ready shortly. We will be ramping production scale over Q1 2010.
We can now announce that the first units are going into specialized tablet devices with multi-touch. Increasingly these screens will be super-slim, but some customers prefer the standard thickness.
Another-product-with-a-bad-name alert
The Nook E-Reader — sounds like something late into the porn market.
'Nucular it's pronounced 'nucular' - 
E-ink was the main advantage these readers had over tablets. Oh, well. Bye-bye Nook.
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December 30, 2009 9:27 AM PST
While the world awaits the birth of the Apple tablet, there is another touch-screen device that may have more of an impact--at least technologically. Notion Ink has announced that Adam, an Android-based tablet PC, will ship in June 2010 for around $325. However, what is really exciting is that this machine may be the first to sport the new 10.1-inch Pixel Qi display.
What's the big deal with Pixel Qi technology? While it can perform like a standard LCD display, the Pixel Qi panel has a low-power transflective display, which allows ambient light to illuminate the screen, and an e-paper mode. The latter resembles a black-and-white e-reader and is meant to be used under bright environments. This allows the Nvidia Tegra machine to consume 90 percent less power than conventional panels.
Right...but see #8.
Wow color,WiFi,keyboard and a bigger screen. Why it is looking more and more like a ..............notebook
Asian info source :
Barnes & Noble debuts its Nook Color e-reader
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The US$249 Nook Color, which has a 7-inch color touchscreen LCD, ships on November 19. (Credit: Barnes & Noble)
The prices for e-books are still too high regardless of what one reads them on. IMHO :)
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Pixel Qi: the only non-captive LCD design company in the world
We design innovative new screens starting with an overall architecture goal. We aren't encumbered by trying to make it work with a specific fab or process (we can work with any fab or process) but instead we try to invent and then create innovative screens that can solve real world problems - problems not addressed by conventional screens. After inventing/creating an initial architecture we design all layers of the LCD, including each and every mask, the liquid crystal mode and material, the optical films, the driving scheme and the backlight. By doing so we create innovative screens with new and extraordinary performance that can ramp into high volume mass production quickly with high yields.
We use a fabless ASIC approach akin to that used in silicon chip design
We have already shipped 2 million screens in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO laptop: Pixel Qi is a spin out of One Laptop per Child. For our first Pixel Qi product, we have developed of a new class of low power screen that embodies epaper with color and video with vast improvements over the OLPC screen. With the backlight on, this screen is color and looks and acts just like a standard LCD; with the backlight off, it becomes a highly reflective e-paper display with support for rapid update and video. Our first product in this series is a10.1" diagonal and is now available for mini-laptops, multitouch tablets, ebook readers and other devices and offers a 5-10X power reduction compared to standard LCD screens. This allows much longer battery life and/or can halve the weight of tablets using low power chipsets like ARM due the savings on battery weight and housing made possible with our screen.
The future of mobile computing requires low power screens that are readable in any light.
Like standard backlit LCD displays, Pixel Qi displays renders quality full-color images, full-motion video, and high screen brightness. However, in environments with high ambient light levels, the 3Qi's reflective mode contributes to the image, allowing the backlight to be turned down or off. This unique capability delivers significant power savings, an attractive screen and a comfortable reading experience, with very high resolution. Outdoors, Pixel Qi's Transflective 2.0 technology comes into play - each pixel is mainly reflective, but has about the same transmissive efficiency as a standard LCD, enabling the user to experience a crisp image with excellent contrast and *brightness* in any light. This highly "green" LCD consumes 80 percent less power in reflective mode, yet delivers a better contrast ratio and equivalent reflectance typical of the best electrophoretic displays.
The screen is the most power-hungry component in a computing device:
Our screens are game changers - delivering low power & long battery life while enabling much lighter tablets, laptops and devices.
So.... what about info at #13?
Doesn’t this miss the point of the ereader looking like printed pages? Also does it work as well in bright light—like on the beach?
See #13.
Read further and see #13.
Speaking for myself, I don’t care what the device does or how much it costs. I won’t buy one until the price of e-book drops. Publishers, last I knew, were charging as much or almost as much for the e-books as the dead tree editions. If retailers are making any profit on the darn things, it’s not much. It’s a screwy buisiness model that fleeces the consumer, at least to my mind. I’ll keep buying my dead tree editions and at least have something to sell if the book sucks :)
$275...then you have only the display....
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Please note: These screens replace those found in the Samsung N130 & Lenovo S10-2. Although they do work in other models, we can only guarantee compatibility on those 2 specific netbooks. We are testing other models, and will update the list as needed.
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