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Orchard introduces Toughlet rugged tablet with sunlight viewable display

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:18 +0000

Orchard has introduced a new rugged tablet designed for outdoor use. It has a 7 inch Pixel Qi display which can function as a full color LCD display or a high contrast (nearly black and white) sunlight viewable display when the backlight is turned off. The current model has a 1.2 GHz Freescale iMX5 ARM Cortex-A8 dual core processor and...

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Pixel Qi sunlight readable displays at CES 2012

Brad Linder — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:00:16 +0000

Pixel Qi makes LCD displays that can be viewed outdoors in direct sunlight using nothing but ambient light. In full color LCD mode they still look better outdoors than a typical screen, but you can also cut the backlight entirely and use the screens in a high-contrast, nearly black and white mode that uses as much as 80 percent less...

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7 inch Android, Windows tablets with Pixel Qi sunlight viewable displays from Sol Computer

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:45:26 +0000

Sol Computer introduced a 10 inch Windows netbook and 10 inch Windows tablet with Pixel Qi sunlight viewable displays last year. Now the company is adding two new 7 inch models to its lineup, one with Google Android, and another with Windows. Pixel Qi screens are dual-mode LCD displays which work as full-color screens when the backlight is on, or...

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Pixel Qi, Shizhu Technology to produce tablets together

Brad Linder — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:38:19 +0000

A new family of Chinese tablets with displays that are viewable both indoors and outdoors in direct sunlight could be on the way. Chinese device maker Shizhu Technology is partnering with Pixel Qi to develop "a family of tablets." Pixel Qi's displays are LCD screens that combine some of the best features of an LCD with some of the benefits of E...

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Pixel Qi: Over 3 million screens in the wild

Brad Linder — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:58:37 +0000

Pixel Qi makes transflective displays that look like full-color LCDs when used with a backlight, but look more like a low power, outdoor readable E Ink when you turn off the backlight on a computer, eReader, or other device. The company has been showing off its technology for a few years, but so far very few consumer devices have actually...

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3M invests in Pixel Qi, enables expansion of sunlight readable display tech

Brad Linder — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:21:51 +0000

Pixel Qi has been producing sunlight readable LCD display technology for a couple of years. Founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who also designed the sunlight readable displays used in the original OLPC XO Laptop, the company produces dual-mode screens that can be used with or without a backlight. When the backlight is on the display looks much like any other...

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Sol Computer launches sunlight readable netbook, tablet with Pixel Qi screen

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:00:17 +0000

There's good news and bad news for anyone that's been waiting to get their hands on a mobile device with a Pixel Qi display. The good news is that there's another company offering mobile devices with Pixel Qi screens. The bad news is that they're really quite expensive. Pixel Qi is a company that makes dual-mode LCD displays. When used...

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Notion Ink Adam 2 on track for a December launch

Brad Linder — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:49:47 +0000

The Notion Ink Adam tablet was one of the first 10 inch Android tablets to ship with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and to this day it's still one of the only tablets on the market featuring a 10 inch Pixel Qi sunlight readable display. Now the company is getting ready to launch a second-generation tablet,...

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Pixel Qi suggests low power tablets could be powered by 1W solar panels

Brad Linder — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:00:11 +0000

Pixel Qi's display technology allows you to seriously reduce power consumption when you cut off the backlight and use a tablet or notebook in high contrast, black and white mode. So while a 10 inch Pixel Qi screen uses around 2.5W of power in full color mode, it uses closer to 0.5W in black and white mode. ARMDevices spoke with...

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Pixel Qi introduces 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel sunlight viewable displays

Brad Linder — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:50:45 +0000

Pixel Qi's display technology combines some of the best features of an LCD screen with those of an E Ink display. With the backlight on a Pixel Qi display can handle a full range of colors and full motion video. Cut off the backlight and you get a high contrast display that's almost black and white and which you can...

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Amazon tablets could have quad-core chips, dual mode (color and monochrome) displays

Brad Linder — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:50:33 +0000

Amazon execs haven't officially come out and said that the company is working on an Android tablet. But there's growing evidence that a line of Amazon tablets could launch later this year. CEO Jeff Bezos told Consumer Reports to "stay tuned" for more details recently, which is pretty far from a denial. Last week Boy Genius Report, which has some...

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Pixel Qi to introduce a high resolution 10 inch sunlight readable display

Brad Linder — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:56:05 +0000

[/caption] Display maker Pixel Qi plans to show off a new 10 inch display at the Computex trade show in Taiwan starting later this month. The new screen has a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, which just happens to be the same resolution found in nearly every 10 inch tablet shipping with Google Android 3.x Honeycomb -- but as a...

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ZTE unveils 7 inch tablet with Pixel Qi display

Brad Linder — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:41:39 +0000

Chinese device maker ZTE has introduced a new Android tablet that will be one of the first devices to ship with Pixel Qi's new 7 inch sunlight readable display.The new tablet is called the ZTE Light 2 and it features a 1 GHz processor, 4GB of storage, and runs Google Android 2.2. It measures less than half an inch thick....

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Clover SunBook netbook with Pixel Qi display now available

Brad Linder — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:00:26 +0000

The SunBook from Clover Systems is the first 10 inch netbook to ship with a Pixel Qi transflective display. That means you can use the netbook in full color mode for viewing pictures, watching movies, or doing just about anything else you'd expect to do on a netbook. But you can also kill the backlight to view the display in...

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Roundup of Notion Ink Adam first impressions

Brad Linder — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:43:03 +0000

The Notion Ink Adam tablet has gained a lot of attention over the past year because it's one of the most promising Android tablets... on paper. The spec sheet reads like a tech gadget's dream journal, including a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, support for HD video and 3D graphics acceleration, an optional Pixel Qi transflective display, and a...

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