Thanks to the arrival of low-cost tablets, odds are that Amazon’s never going to make a Kindle with a color ePaper display. But E Ink still thinks there’s a market for high-contrast, low-power color displays — the company has introduced a new color E Ink display technology. It’s called Print-Color and it allows each pixel on […]
Onyx makes a color eReader for Chinese schools
The Amazon Kindle and most other eReaders use black and white E Ink displays. A while back Amazon acquired a company called Liquavista that was working on color electronic paper display technology, but it looks like the company recently pulled the plug on Liquavista. But that doesn’t mean device makers have given up on color […]
Ectacto Jetbook 2 color eReader coming in 2013
Ectacto has unveiled plans to launch a new eReader with a 9.7 inch Color E Ink display. So far the company has only announced launch plans for Russia, where the eReader is expected to hit the streets in March. As you could probably guess from the name, the Ectacto Jetbook 2 isn’t exactly the company’s […]
PocketBook to launch front-lit color E Ink eReader in 2013
PocketBook has announced plans to release an 8 inch eReader with a front-lit color E Ink display. It has a 600 x 800 pixel screen that can display 4096 colors, and it’s due out in June, 2013. Color E Ink displays work a lot like grayscale E Ink screens. The screen is illuminated from ambient […]
Ectacto Jetbook Color eReader already available in Russia
The Ectacto JetBook is one of the first eBook readers with a color E Ink display. Basically it has a standard E Ink display with a filter on top which adds color without using much more energy than a grayscale E Ink screen. In other words, battery life is measured in weeks rather than hours. […]
Jetbook Color eReader with color E Ink display coming this year
Companies have been showing off prototype eBook readers with color E Ink displays for a couple of years, but so far no devices with color E Ink displays have actually gone on sale. Now it looks like we should see the first in December. That’s when Ectaco plans to launch the Jetbook Color eReader in […]
