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Originally Posted by rcentros
I don't understand the bitterness.
And I think most people already understand that E-Ink color is inferior to tablet LCD color. But is good enough for those who like E-Ink? Apparently there is a market for them, or Kobo/Tolino wouldn't be entering into it.
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Agreed. As long as there is choice (mono eink
and colour eink, LCD, OLED etc) there is no problem as long as products are honestly advertised in terms of specification and photos.
Certainly there is value to colour eink, but it should be honestly marketed and the price premium till now has been crazy as it's only a coloured pattern on eisting mono eink screens and little more than some extra software, though a specific controller should be used. Even mono eink seems massively overpriced based on cost of replacement panels, though the panels either due to monopoly or technology are about x3 the price of LCD panels. The only reason we don't still see mono LCD graphics panels (we used to) is that there is zero market as the colour ones (which are mono with either a colour filter or quantum dots) has as much resolution, speed, shades, contrast, brightness etc as anyone wants if you pay for quality (which is still a fraction of mono eink).
The battery life issue is narrowing, especially with Colour ink that does note taking, faster refresh, audio books and wifi, but only compared to better tablets. Some phones beat mono eink for battery life listening to audio books as the screen is off. The really long battery life eink is with reading novels (not comics/manga etc as page turns are more often) with no BT, WiFi or frontlight because the ereader is almost off, only awake enough to detect a page turn. The buttons or touch controller may even wake an almost fully asleep cpu. Smaller text saves power as you turn the page less often. A full refresh page turn is expensive on power.
LCD and OLED can have the viewing angle of eink but it's only LCD with more advanced than traditional IPS and there are still garbage less than IPS LCD being sold.
The eink tends to have a micro-textured front surface (nothing to do with eink) and this is rare with OLED and LCD as shiny is cheap and looks good in a showroom. The lack of distractions (though those can be disabled in iOS and Android) on non-Android eink is good, and also dedicated non-Android eink usually have better metadata/library interfaces than is common with iOS or Android apps.