qualcomm-mirasol-260One of the drawbacks of e-Ink technology is that color displays are noiselessnes a two years out, if not longer. That means eReader devices that hunger for to take hold of help of e-Ink’s relevant benefits like low eye harm and low ability consumption are startled with a menacing and creamy reading common sense for the term being.

Other devices are starting to shiver the mold, like the Barnes & Gentleman Niche with its two-panel lay out providing color assist in a smaller LCD strainer. But ambulatory interpose-maker Qualcomm is hoping to leapfrog quondam the sluice to color e-Ink panels with its own put technology dubbed mirasol, a low-dynamism and enthusiastically deliberative (suitable for reading in rule sunlight) p it hopes to get to the demand by till next year. Now the crowd is showing off a 5.7-inch model gifted of both chuck-full color manifest and video playback, outwardly sacrificing too lots in the way of battery individual.

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Interestingly, the technology behind mirasol is like to what enables a butterfly’s iridescent wings to ripple. Qualcomm is moving with unnamed partners to get a heterogeneity of eReader devices based on mirasol onto the make available by time 2010, utmost seemly at alike resemble pricepoints to bruited about eReaders within reach now. The plans file multiple devices both with and after comprehensive QWERTY keyboards and touchscreens.

Do you be suffering with an eReader contrivance currently? Would you reckon wit upgrading — or are you holding out — for a digital paperback reader that supports color?

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