The new E Ink Carta technology delivers a 50% increase in contrast over Pearl E Ink, 20% less reflections, Carta technology is now in the newest Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 6″ e-reader, and E Ink also shows the new Regal Wave Form technology which removes the need for full page refreshes allowing for faster refreshes for up to a hundred page turns when reading. E Ink also shows a smartwatch based on their flexible E Ink Mobius screen technology. E Ink Mobius screens are flexible and can be custom shaped enabling smaller new form factors. E Ink claims that the CST-1 watch is the thinnest watch in the world at .8mm thick. The E Ink watch amazingly gets a month of battery. Also here’s an A4 sized Mobius display. Sony has there own Mobius display based product designed for education with touch and active digitizer capabilities. E Ink Mobius screens due to their flexibility are much more durable than glass LCDs. Mobius screens currently use E Ink Pearl technology but could in theory upgrade to E Ink Carta. E Ink also shows electronic replacements for paper signs which is useful in retail outlets. Electronic signs enable real time price updates enabling much more accurate pricing which makes consumers more confident in a retailer. The electronic signs can last 5 years on a battery and in theory could operate without batteries.
Category: E-readers
E Ink Carta, Regal wave form, flexible Mobius for Smartwatches, A4-sized e-readers and red E Ink
Cambrios is revolutionizing the touch screen industry, interview with their CMO
One of the revolutionary new touch screen technologies is created by Cambrios, it’s their ClearOhm® Silver Nanowires, that is now the leading candidate for replacing ITO in touch applications and making strides also in OLED lighting, Organic Photo Voltaic cells, electronic displays and others. At IFA, I interviewed Sri Peruvemba who was very excited about the prospects for the technology. Cambrios ClearOhm technology is replacing ITO not only in applications where ITO cannot play (large monitors, All-In-One computers and upcoming flexible/unbreakable tablets, phones and other devices) but also in applications like tablets and laptops and mobile phones where ITO is dominant. They already have many products in the field (see my video with Cambrios from Computex in Taiwan) and are expecting more tier one design wins to be announced in the near future. Already it’s public that companies like Samsung, Nissha are investors in Cambrios ClearOhm, that the worlds biggest touch screen maker TPK is building a new factory to build Cambrios ClearOhm based touch screens and that Hitachi is also a customer. The ClearOhm product has better transmission than ITO on film, has better conductivity (since silver conducts 100 times better than Indium), is made on flexible plastic material that is 40% thinner and 40% lighter than traditional touch screens, can enable flexible touch screens that ITO cannot since it is brittle, and it is very rugged. The Silver Nanowires from Cambrios is almost invisible in the touch screen, I could not see any pattern or moire that you would see with other technologies like metal mesh and ITO. Also the Cambrios CMO says that they are price competitive even with inferior technologies, that is amazing. During my interview I examined the touch sensors and could not see any pattern visibility. This is why they are winning new business. How fast Cambrios ClearOhm is going to take over the whole worldwide touch panel market is unsure, Cambrios says that they can produce enough silver nanowire material to be in all 1 Billion smartphones to be sold in 2014 if the markets and if the touch screen device producers demand it. I would definitely like to see hundreds of millions of cheaper, lighter, flexible/unbreakable plastics based Cambrios ClearOhm based Smartphone and Tablet designs invade the whole worldwide market as soon as next year!
Kobo Arc 10 HD Tegra4 Tablet, Kobo Aura E Ink e-reader
Kobo is probably the second biggest seller of E Ink e-readers in the world, focusing on many of the markets where Amazon isn’t wanting to have a big presence. The new Kobo Aura HD e-reader is awesome, features the thinnest and lightest 6″ touch and front-lit E Ink e-reader yet on the market. The Kobo Arc 10 HD is a new Tegra4 tablet with a 2560×1600 screen retailing at 379 Euro in Europe. Kobo also talks about a 1920×1080 7″ Tablet to retail at 199 Euros. What do you think about Kobo? I think Kobo is being very aggressive and coming out with very interesting mass market devices selling more and more.
Shenzhen Jren Tablets and Ereaders
Shenzhen JREN is a producer of Ebook readers and Android tablets.
Products Made By Jren Include:
4.3″ eink Ebook reader with unspecified box chip processor.
6″ eink Ebook reader with touchscreen
9.7″ Retina tablet with unspecified quad core processor. Unspecified price.
7″ tablet with Allwinner A31 processor.
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Topjoy shows $39 E Ink e-reader on Rockchip 2906, 2818 and some MT8389 MediaTek Tablets
Julia Yu from Topjoy shows various tables and e-book readers.
1. 4.3″ & 6″ E-BookReader Rockchip 2906,2818 Linux OS,priced at $39, No sim option for this e-Bookreader and wifi is optional. Topjoy sells them 50k in month mainly marketed in Europe countries like Italy, Spain,Russia…and soviet countries. MOQ is about 1K.
2. 7.5″Tablet MTK8389 $129 ARM Cortex A9,Quadcore,3G.Andriod 4.2 is a Private Model from TopJoy.10OOO units already sold worldwide.
Prominent Features:
-quadcore 3g
-bluetooth mTK8389
-one sim, android 4.2
-Ram 1gm
-LCD 7.8″ 10241024×768
-wifi-80211b//n
-2g/3g/wcdma
-HSPA(DL4.2Mbps,UL-11.5Mbps)
-camera .3 front back 2.0/5.0 m
-GPS:built in
-Battery 3.7v/3200mAh
3. 7″ Tablet quadcore Rockchip 3168 display 1280×800
MTK quadcore, IPS, SingleSim. Priced at $109
4. Rockchip3168 Duel core, Cortex Av97″ Tablet 1024×600 display.$ 50
duelcore CORTEXA9″ display 1024×600. 4hrs long battery with HD Panel
4hrs long battery. Topjoy sells them 20k per monthm.
5. Another Private Tablet from Joytop Rockchip 3188 quadcore9.7″ with Retina disply is expected price is & Rockchip Retina display. Already 50k sold.
topjoysis one the pronimnet factory base in shengen city with
200 members in factory. Over 80k units production fecilty.
Refernce Link:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9jfKLaFoM
http://http://topjoyint.com/PRODUCT.asp
http://topjoyint.com/PRODUCT.asp
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Netronix shows latest e-readers, i.MX6Lite based E6Q222, Android on E-Ink
E-bookreader for ladies Model E6Q222. Powered with ARM Cortex A9, i.MX6Lite, Single core processor. It works on linux OS and the Android platform. Kelly from Netronix gives details of the e-bookreaders and they are sold 100K per month. Netronix is renowned company in making networking products. The capacity of Firm is about 250K per month in the peak season. Here we can see another E-bookreder with Imex 507,ARM Cortex A9, Android.
Reference link:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHSJBHp_0z8
http://http://www.netronixinc.com/aboutnetronix.htm
$68 13.3″ ARM Powered Laptop by Hivision
Hivision showing some Android Tablets and Android Laptops at the Hong Kong HKTDC Electronics Fair. Their 13.3 inch Notebook runs Android 4 and has a VIA 8850 CPU. The Laptop is in 2 variations. One model has touch-screen and the other model doesn’t. The touch-screen model costs $75 and the non touch-screen model costs just $68. Battery life said to be 3 hours when watching video or surfing the internet, I guess the screen is big and they have a small battery.
Their most sold Tablet is an Allwinner A13 CPU Tablet that is sold mostly in Spain and France and it costs $41.
6 inch E-ink eBook-reader made by them costs $49.
Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core CPU Tablet from HiVision is traded for $110.
Hivision Factory has nearly 100 employees and claims to sell around 5000 Laptops and more than 10000 Tablets per month.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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Allwinner E200 Powered Gajah InkCase E Ink phablet case to be $99- $129
Gajah International design house shows a unique Allwinner E200 powered E Ink Bluetooth case for you Galaxy Note 2 smartphone/phablet. “InkCase” works like a second casing or another panel for your gadget, On the back side of the casing you find E Ink panel serves as second panel to display photographs, you can read e-book, see the pop-up’s of Facebook and Twitter too. You can have eye on weather apps from your phone and all viewable apps you can see through this second panel. It works on Bluetooth connectivity has micro USB port for charging InkCase. Inside it has memory to facilitate switch over to next picture/page and to do this back panel has two keys.Price yet to be finalised may expect between $99-$129 You can have look here in this video of InkCase for Samsung S2. InkCase is also available for iPhones but works only as photo viewer, . Two colour variants Black & White are available.
The problem is the way this one works is to beam pictures that it has to transmit, decode, instead of sending data to interpret and integrate in clever apps on the E Ink case device. That makes for slowish e-reader mode for now. But maybe they can improve this in software and other device like it a bit better integrated and much thinner and lighter could be huge advancement for changing the back-cover on your smartphone that has removable back-cover or for adding a back-casing to your smartphone and phablet to use the back surface of your devices for new smart potentially ultra-low power E Ink functionality.
Reference Link:
http://www.gajah.com.sg/
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Onyx International Android E Ink, stable e-reader and E430 4.3″ Android E Ink Phone
Onyx International is reaching a fully stable Android on E Ink state, here showcasing their latest 6″ capacitive Android e-reader as well as their 4.3″ capacitive Android E Ink phone. The Android E Ink phone’s touch panel is still being finalized, I am borrowing the Android E Ink phone for the next 2-3 days, let me know what I should test and show on it. I’ll try to compare it with other LCD and AMOLED smartphones in direct and indirect sunlight if the weather permits here in Taipei. Onyx’s 6″ E Ink e-reader is quite stable, they still want to improve some of the Android UI for E Ink e-readers, but now it’s already stable. I am also borrowing their Android E-reader for 2-3 days, let me know what I should test on it, I’ll compare it with the Kindle Paperwhite.
$66 6″ front-lit E Ink e-readers from Jawei
Jawei shows their latest range of E Ink based e-readers, starting at $40 for a 4.3″ E Ink e-reader without touch, $66 for 6″ without touch, add a bit for touch. Minimum order quantity is 2K.
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Onyx E430 Android 4.3″ E Ink phone
6 months ago, I filmed Onyx showing the first Android E Ink e-reader prototype. Now Onyx International shows their new 4.3″ E Ink Android phone with a front light. Onyx also shows their first 6″ Android based E Ink e-reader also with a front light. Onyx is thus now fully focusing on Android on E Ink, for Android E Ink phones and Android E Ink e-readers. Check back soon at http://ARMdevices.net for more news from Onyx on their latest and upcoming Android E Ink devices!
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OLPC XO-4 Touch Unboxing
Giulia D’Amico, OLPC Vice President of Business Development, unboxes and talks about the all-new XO-4 Touch One Laptop Per Child laptop, featuring the new Marvell Armada PXA2128 dual-core 1.2Ghz 40nm processor, Marvell 8787 WiFi chip and the Neonode IR Touch touchscreen technology. The OLPC XO-4 Touch now also features a HDMI output. Currently still running Fedora Linux based Sugar OS, the OLPC is thinking to port Sugar to Android to use on all OLPC Laptop/Tablet devices during 2013. Thus far, OLPC has shipped over 2.8 Million Laptops to children in schools worldwide. Australia is going to be the first country to deploy over 55 thousand OLPC XO-4 Touch laptop/tablets in the months to come.
E Ink Triton 2 next generation color display
E Ink has improved the color with Triton2, showcasing the Ectaco Jetbook device (without front light), it’s also possible to use front light with E Ink Triton2 adding more light to the system, which shows off the colors better.
Latest flexible E Ink status at CES 2013
Flexible screens are potentially going to become massively available during 2013 in new mass market ARM Powered devices. E Ink presents their latest flexible screen technologies, showing the shipping flexible E Ink device by Wexler and talking about what may come out next.
Latest e-reader displays by E Ink at CES 2013
E Ink describes some of the latest advances in e-reader displays used in the latest e-readers on the market such as the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kobo Mini. Higher resolution, faster and front lights.
Yota Devices E Ink and LCD dual-mode Android Phone
Here’s the YotaPhone, the first dual-mode Android phone that works on LCD and E Ink at the same time on each side of the phone. Yota has developed a few customizations and a new SDK to either just send screenshots of anything that’s on Android over to E Ink or to also enable interactivity on the E Ink side, such as flipping pages with their swipe gestures at the capacitive bottom that is on each side of the device. Expected delivery is to be between Q2 and Q3 2013, Yota Devices is a Russian company but the market for this dual mode E Ink and LCD phone can be worldwide.
Charles Dickens on E Ink vs Tablets for reading outdoors
Here is http://www.eink.com/ereader_tale.html‘s official latest comedy video showing why we should all consider buying an eink e-reader, at least the crazy cheap $69 Kindle if you haven’t already and let’s get to some serious e-reading going on again if you aren’t already.
I’m looking forward to spend more time outdoors with devices with sunlight readable screens, reading more of the awesome ebooks that I haven’t read yet. I fill those up with the best of project http://gutenberg.org for free, and still looking for Google to fix http://books.google.com
By the way, I’m still very much looking forward to official Google Android support on E Ink, synchronize the Chrome browser on my Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone so that I can always continue reading articles, emails, blog posts, Google+ circles on the WiFi connected and automatically synchronized E Ink e-reader comfortably without a backlight.
Do you ever use your backlit smartphones, tablets or laptops to read your ebooks? I wouldn’t recommend it, even turning down the brightness of the backlight doesn’t come close to the experience of using a backlight-free, frontlit device for any serious reading indoors and outdoors.
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Onyx Boox Touch Moon Light (i62), Kindle Paperwhite competitor
Onyx releases their new 1024×768 6″ HD E Ink e-reader with their own front light technology. They say it’s better than Nook Glowlight but they haven’t yet been able to compare with the Kindle Paperwhite. It runs Onyx own advanced embedded Linux OS for E In e-readers on the Freescale i.MX508, that Onyx has been developing for years now with multiple generations of touch-screen based e-readers that they have been releasing these past years with advanced features like annotations, highlights, scribbling and more.
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