Qualcomm’s Mirasol display technology combines some of the best features of E Ink and LCD displays. Mirasol displays offer a full range of colors, but use far less power than most color screens. You can also view the screens in direct sunlight or using other ambient light, because they don’t need require a backlight. They […]
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Qualcomm Mirasol displays could compete with OLED screens in the tablet space
Qualcomm has been showing off its Mirasol display technology for the last few years. The low power screens don’t require a backlight, instead relying on ambient lighting like an E Ink screen. That reduces power consumption and makes it possible to view the screens in direct sunlight. But unlike most E Ink displays, Mirasol screens […]
Mirosol: We’d have sunlight readable screens on the market if not for that pesky iPad
Mirosol has been showing off its low power reflective sunlight readable color display technology for a couple of years, but so far no actual products using the screens have shipped. Now Engadget has the story on why that is. In a nutshell, Mirosol’s displays don’t require a backlight and don’t draw much more power than […]
Closer look at Mirasol sunlight-readable display
Pixel Qi isn’t the only company at CES showing low power displays that can easily be read outdoors. While Pixel Qi’s solution allows you to turn on the backlight for a full color LCD experience or turn it off for a low power, high contrast grayscale screen, Qualcomm’s Mirasol solution is a color display that’s viewable in […]
PocketBook developing tablet with Mirasol outdoor-readable display
Mirasol has been showing off its technology for outdoor readable color LCD displays for over a year, but I haven’t seen any actual devices using Mirasol screens yet. It looks like that could change soon. A demo video for an upcoming tablet from PocketBook shows the device with a Mirasol display — although it looks […]
PocketBook to launch eReader with a Mirasol color display
PocketBook will showcase 6 new eBook Readers at CES in January. Five of them will have the usual E Ink displays, but the most interesting new model is called the PocketBook Mirasol, and it has… you guessed it, a Qualcomm Mirasol display. The Mirasol screens have some of the properties of E Ink. You can […]
Qualcomm Mirasol low power displays coming in early 2011
Qualcomm has been showing off its Mirasol display technology for ages. I got a chance to check out a prototype eBook reader with a Mirasol display at CES in January. But it looks like the displays won’t actually reach the market until early 2011. That’s according to GigaOm’s Om Malik, who caught up with the […]
Qualcomm reportedly investing $2 billion in Mirasol color eReader displays
While Pixel Qi has been grabbing a lot of headlines for its dual-mode LCD displays which can function as full color laptop or tablet screens or low power, high contrast eReader displays, the company isn’t the only game in town. Qualcomm has been working on its own solution: a low power eReader display with a […]
The color eBook readers of CES (so far)
One of the hottest trends at CES so far (or at least the pre-show events I’ve attended this week) is eBook readers. It seems like everybody’s got a handheld device for reading eBooks. Most of them are high contrast black and white jobs with long-lasting batteries and highly viewable displays that are rather slow to […]