Kindle Paperwhite's display is the most advanced e-reader display ever constructed.
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Cybook Odyssey HD display is the most advanced e-reader display.
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The Skiff Reader, on the other hand, is being pitched as a consumer device with a compelling value proposition for publishers ( by publishers) and content owners that will ultimately deliver multimedia on a wide range of devices and display types hooked into the Skiff Store -- just not the flagship Skiff Reader with traditional e-paper display.
Specs-wise, there's not much here we didn't know: the big changes are a larger 9.7-inch screen that rotates to landscape display, a PDF reader, and more storage space at 3.3GB.
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The display self-adjusts to become an ultra-high contrast e-book reader in bright sunlight, and a bright full-color backlit display in normal light.
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The startup wants to turn almost everything with a display into an electronic document reader.
Imagine a micro e-reader app which uses the E Ink display instead of the main panel to conserve battery.
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Kindle Paperwhite's patented front-lit display guides light underneath an anti-glare layer and down toward the display, away from the reader's eyes.
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Evernote's Web Clipper allows saving content with a click, and pages saved with Evernote Clearly are optimized for Reader's crisp E-Ink display.
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Besides Pixel Qi, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, and Philips are trotting out their Mirasol (with a rumored Kindle destination), FLEPia, and Liquavista display demos, respectively, while LG Display is demonstrating its Metal-Foil e-Paper display for the first time on the Skiff Reader.
If and when this reflective display makes it to market, you can surely expect e-reader battery life to go even more of a distance.
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Sony has introduced an e-book reader that uses electrophoretic materials to provide a high-resolution, high-contrast display.
Amazon's first Kindle e-reader used a plastic non-rigid screen - known as an optical frontplane - to display its images.
As well as being used for in-store signage, E Ink's technology powers Sony's e-book reader, and in April, Seiko, a watchmaker, unveiled a digital watch built around an E Ink display.
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