At the Taipei International Book Fair, Qualcomm has announced that Kobee has selected the Mirasol display technology for their Jin Yong Reader
(the reader has been named after Jin Young, a popular author in China ).
The tablet features a 5.7″ 1024×768 Mirasol display, a 1GHz SnapDragon
S2 processor and a customized Android 2.3. This device looks just like
the Bambook Sunfire that i saw at C.E.S.
If you are not familiar with the Mirasol display
technology, it has some of the advantages of e-Ink, which consumes power
only when pixels change, and some strengths of LCD, as it is in color
and has a refresh rate which is fast enough for basic screen animations.
At the moment, Mirasol has been used to power “super eBooks”, but not
to replace conventional LCDs – yet.
I remember Mirasol starting out with tiny screens
just a few of years ago, and at CES we had an opportunity to play the
same 5.7″ display on a device just like this one. The screen was good
enough to display movies, but the image quality and refresh rates were
not yet suitable for “entertainment”, although it would be fine for
“education”. At this point, it’s not clear what the pricing is going to
be likebut ill pring more news when i get it.
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