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Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by saidinesh5 »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Wish you the best with your release.

I hope you release smaller and separate display modules too, so that they can be added to a laptop/phone case... Especially since a lot of new phones these days support USB C display port..

Also would be nice to see the pebble watch resurrected..

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by Tepix »

jeron wrote: post #473
dot5xdev wrote: post #70

I'm a current owner of a Ratta Supernote A5X. I use the Supernote all the time. I previously had a Remarkable 2, but thankfully Remarkable added a subscription which made me look elsewhere and led me to the Supernote. This seems right up my alley. Although, $800 seems steep. The new Supernote A5X2 is due this year... at probably half the price? Granted it doesn't have the 60fps display, but it definitely has a bunch…

$800 is ridiculously steep. I could buy 8 kindles for that price

You're ignoring the 60fps and the display size for starters.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by saurik »

riazrizvi wrote: post #480
fallat wrote: post #410

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need you to tell me. Why are you not selling these as components for others to integrate? If this is truly better, and you hold patents, you would get zillions orders. Every hobbyist under the sun would buy this.

Because that would make it a shit commodity business and you’d have too little value over the manufacturers who would soon cut you out. Why not do it yourself if you think it’s such a great money maker?

I don't understand how any of this makes sense given "and you hold patents".

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by ant6n »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #86
ant6n wrote: post #56

I dunno, after the steaming pile that the Dasun Color Monitor turned out to be (some notes of mine here [1]), I’m kind of weary of this e-ink thing. The problem isn’t just ghosting and slowness, I could deal with that. It’s also reflective, very poor contrast, bad dithering, awful color reproduction. One would have to hold it in ones hand first. …very cool looking project though. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

we're not eink like them! see my comment here :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

That’s not really the point. The point is that companies will sell these new technologies and make the product seem great in their marketing material. Which for screens can be especially annoying.

At least for an apple I can ran into the next store and find out that yes the screen is nice, but it’s still pretty reflective.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by cowsaymoo »

imp0cat wrote: post #481
selcuka wrote: post #348

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> Most devices let you [...] But nobody does that, because we love addictions.

This. The screen should slowly desaturate color and eventually switch to b/w when the phone detects mindless scrolling automatically. ;)

Lool like each post you scroll desaturates the screen by 2%

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by pyoung »

SamBam wrote: post #421
jadbox wrote: post #186

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See the Minimal E-ink phone

Off-topic, but anyone know if Google Fi would make it easy to switch between two phones without too much hassle? I'd love to have a second phone that I could take around when I'm not expecting to do any photography or anything. (I know, I could have a dedicated camera instead, but I take pictures on my phone...)

They provide free data-only sim cards. And you used to be able to sync all of your texts and calls in the hangout app, but they got rid of that. The last time I tried syncing the Messages app to a data o my device, it didn't work too well. That was a while ago though so not sure if that is still the case.

Swapping sim cards is probably too much of a hassle. You could just make the epaper phone your primary, and drag along the second phone as needed. Also, there is no reason an epaper phone can't take photos. Plenty of camera gear out there where the viewfinder/preview screen is a very poor preview of the final image and regardless, most folks just snap away with their phones and look at the images later. Modern smartphones do most of the work regarding camera settings.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by cowsaymoo »

saurik wrote: post #493
riazrizvi wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because that would make it a shit commodity business and you’d have too little value over the manufacturers who would soon cut you out. Why not do it yourself if you think it’s such a great money maker?

I don't understand how any of this makes sense given "and you hold patents".

maybe they are saying patents are territorial, and not always respected
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