PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
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PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
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Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#2Popslate is pretty cool, I saw it at MWC 2013 in February of 2013. I guess it never took off because it was too expensive.
Guess what - it's gotten more expensive ($129 now).
Bummer.
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#3Popslate is pretty cool, I saw it at MWC 2013 in February of 2013. I guess it never took off because it was too expensive. Guess what - it's gotten more expensive ($129 now). Bummer.
I came here to wonder about the price, and there's the answer. It's a pity that eInk is a great technology that remains horribly expensive. Not sure why; manufacturing yield? Rare inputs? Small volumes?
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#4Interesting. Tho' since I already know about yotaphone [ http://yotaphone.com/in-en/ ] this seems like a compromise. The 'second display' as a case does not seem to have the interactivity that the built-in display of yotaphone has. Also, you'd have to turn the bluetooth on to change display ...and yet another 'device' to charge, so well not for me.
I am waiting for yotaphone2 to be released
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#5I used to wear a Pebble watch every day and found it useful but not overly so. That needed charging every 5-7 days, and this claims to last a week on a single charge. I don't wear the pebble watch any more because as lazy as it sounds, I kept forgetting to charge it when it ran out of battery, and there were days where I was walking around with a dead watch, which was at that point essentially an expensive wristband.
With my phone, I know I need to charge it every day and it is a habit to plug it in just before I go to sleep every day. With the pebble, and I think this too, sometimes the battery would last 5 days, sometimes 8, and that irregular charging cycles means it's hard to form habits around charging.
It became annoying to remember to charge the Pebble and take it off and put it on again. The benefits from having it became less appealing. I fear the same might happen with this if I were to own it, and it would become a bulky iPhone case. At $129 it might be worth a punt but I'm skeptical.
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#6Popslate is pretty cool, I saw it at MWC 2013 in February of 2013. I guess it never took off because it was too expensive. Guess what - it's gotten more expensive ($129 now). Bummer.
I came here to wonder about the price, and there's the answer. It's a pity that eInk is a great technology that remains horribly expensive. Not sure why; manufacturing yield? Rare inputs? Small volumes?
... patents ?
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#7I was standing behind someone in a queue for boarding a flight whose phone died from lack of charge as they were about to hand it over to be scanned - so having your boarding pass on an e-ink display might actually be a pretty good idea...
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#8Popslate is pretty cool, I saw it at MWC 2013 in February of 2013. I guess it never took off because it was too expensive. Guess what - it's gotten more expensive ($129 now). Bummer.
I came here to wonder about the price, and there's the answer. It's a pity that eInk is a great technology that remains horribly expensive. Not sure why; manufacturing yield? Rare inputs? Small volumes?
There's no proof that the product is at a particular price point just because one of the needed components is expensive.
It might just be priced at what they perceive that the market is willing to pay, this is kind of a luxury product with very little competition, after all.
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#9I was standing behind someone in a queue for boarding a flight whose phone died from lack of charge as they were about to hand it over to be scanned - so having your boarding pass on an e-ink display might actually be a pretty good idea...
Is it really worth $129 so that you don't have to print out a paper copy of your boarding pass when your battery is low?
Re: PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone
#10I was standing behind someone in a queue for boarding a flight whose phone died from lack of charge as they were about to hand it over to be scanned - so having your boarding pass on an e-ink display might actually be a pretty good idea...
Is it really worth $129 so that you don't have to print out a paper copy of your boarding pass when your battery is low?
If you don't have a printer handy, yes.