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There were already multiple such devices from competitors on the market last year.
Personal fazit: they lose in almost every area against a cheap tablet.
Except for the screen
There too. Low contrast and less bright than b/w e-paper and still suck more power. AMOLED is better for the eyes, even though it glows.
Why do you say that amoled is bezter for the eyes? Is that also true for b/w e-ink?
No, i think e-ink has it's place. But color e-ink is currently too much a tradeoff in everything else e-ink is strong, imo.
How so? Color eink has pretty much zero tradeoffs as far as i can tell, other than price.
Weak colors, so dark that you constantly need backlight...
Weak colors yes, but normal eink has no colors, and what do you mean by "so dark that you constantly need backlight..."?
Look for comparison videos between the color e-ink technologies.
Oh, OK. I just assumed color e-ink was just like bw e-ink but with colors and was similar in other aspects
It is