Color eReader from Qualcomm
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Qualcomm had an engineering sample of their new low-power, video capable display technology called Mirasol at CES2010. It is heavily rumored that this will be the display for the next generation Amazon Kindle, and while the person I spoke with wouldn’t confirm that, they did confirm that there will be an eReader device for sale with this technology in the 4th Quarter of 2010. In person, this display was beautiful…great color, incredible resolution.
Technical specifications were hard to come by, as this is still in heavy development, but I got confirmation that the most recent version of Mirasol will do 65,000+ colors at 30 frames per second, all at a fraction of the power drain of LCD technology. I’m very excited, and will have more information on this technology later this year.
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Color has to come for eReaders.
This is exciting news. eReaders have to be color to survive in the electronics market, where the converge of utilities rules. Why would anyone want a device that just read in black and white anymore? Plus color and higher resolution is necessary for eBook versions of textbooks and reference works in science and engineering.