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E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Post by agumonkey »

Lexarius wrote: post #9
borplk wrote: post #6

I have been thinking about a responsive e-ink for some time. What I would love is a responsive e-ink screen to use for text editing, Imagine a large responsive e-ink screen that you can use for coding, reading, etc... Although for coding it would also need some basic colours.

Color would be great, though I think monochrome syntax highlighting would be a fair compromise for a first generation device. Bold for keywords, italic for comments or maybe strings. Maybe a few extra monospace fonts if you need more than that. Where's the kickstarter for this I can throw money at?

On non-ascii editors we could benefit from fancier typography, like borders (rounded, angle, padded, etc), to distinguish between types.

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Post by krapp »

borplk wrote: post #6

I have been thinking about a responsive e-ink for some time. What I would love is a responsive e-ink screen to use for text editing, Imagine a large responsive e-ink screen that you can use for coding, reading, etc... Although for coding it would also need some basic colours.

You'd be able to display true cmyk on an e-ink display wouldn't you? Or am I completely off on that?

Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Post by bitcartel »

fmstephe wrote: post #19
cleverjake wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdXAyvWZdI

This is very exciting to me. I very strongly desire an E-Ink display to work on. I find the LCD displays are a horror on my eyes after a full day at work and hacking in the evening. I don't want to watch videos but a terminal colour that refreshes as fast as I type would be fantastic. I plan on buying one of these at the earliest opportunity.

With Lynx ported over, it could be a fun text only browsing device.

Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Post by aidenn0 »

I have a crazy idea, how about a touch LCD phone that is:

1) actually small enough to fit in my pocket

2) Not PoS 3 years out-of-date hardware designed so that the phone company can offer a "free" smartphone.

The smaller screen would probably greatly improve battery life.

Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Post by beagle3 »

goatforce5 wrote: post #25
rtcoms wrote: post #18

I wish for a dual screen mobile (one side LCD and other side E-Ink)

Can one or the other be (more or less) completely transparent? Is it possible to have one screen layered over the other such that the LCD only becomes active when the user is directly interacting with the device? (Off to the patent office I go!)

Take an OLPC with you to help you with the filing. It had those in 2008 (or even earlier). Google "Pixel Qi"

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Post by freehunter »

pyre wrote: post #30
freehunter wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still waiting on my Raspberry Pi (if it ever gets here, I've been waiting 6 months) with the dreams of turning it into a small, Radio Shack-style Vim machine. Building a case with a keyboard, a small display screen, a command line, and a huge battery. When it's connected to the Internet, it would push the changes up, but when it's not it would cache it locally. Sometimes I like to go camping while I work, for the…

> My Thinkpad gets 10 hours of battery life Which Thinkpad?

T420 with the extended battery.

Re: E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

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Post by dagw »

regomodo wrote: post #24
dagw wrote: post #8

This could become an awesome secondary travel/camping phone. Sure when I'm home I generally remember to charge my phone every or every other night, but when out and about there are many times when charging is inconvenient of impossible.

For camping surely an old nokia will do? I keep one, which isn't much bigger than a mars bar, for this purpose and the battery lasts for ages.

Sure, I do the same. But having smart phone features like e-mail and a web browser would no doubt be handy at times. For example looking up bus/train schedules for getting home in case you end up delayed or have to change your route.

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Post by ZoFreX »

buro9 wrote: post #11
mtgx wrote: post #3

It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. But I doubt people from developed nations would want this. It most likely offers nowhere near the experience of an LCD device. Remember, besides the lack of color issue, e-ink devices work best when the on-screen image is static, and not changing often.

I go on cycle tours every now and then, camping some of the time. I'd love a backup phone for use during tours that could hold a usable charge for 4 or 5 days. My father does motorcycle touring and would love the same. I have an old Sony Ericsson M600i symbian phone ( http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_m600-1425.php ) I dig out for when I go travelling. The battery is still good for 10 days stand-by. It's such a p…

It's the rest of the functionality of a smartphone that drains it sadly, not just the screen. If I turn off 3G and wifi on my SGS2, the battery life goes from around half a day to almost a week!
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