Samsung’s E-Reader Screens Boast 16.7 Million Colors

Much of the buzz coming out of the SID Expose Week 2020 Internationalistic Symposium group discussion in Los Angeles this week is about high-resolution screens for tablets competent of 2560-by-1600 resolution — five multiplication that of the iPad's 1024-aside-768 reveal. But Samsung, makers of those eye-popping screens, also undraped new e-reader screens that use the colored oils of "electrowetting" and give notice show up to 16.7 jillio colours.

Engadget captured television of Samsung's electrowetting displays — the product of its acquisition of Liquavista to begin with this year — that reveal how electrowetting displays look more like tablets than traditional e-ink e-readers, which use electrophoretic tech, like Amazon's Kindle.

Not only are electrowetting e-reader displays easier on the eyes than backlit LCDs, they also wear't waste as much superpowe and offer a refresh grade that's 70 multiplication faster than e-ink. They can too display video — thinning the course betwixt e-lector and tablet.

There's zero word from Samsung on whether the company intends to manufacture its own electrowetting e-readers or if it testament sell the technology to third parties.

What I find most peculiar about electrowetting displays is how they will impact the following generation of tablets. If this technical school was licensed to a keep company like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, they could be used in e-reader tablet hybrids — not different Pixel Qi's innovative netbook e-reader screens.

Rising until now, Amazon has held back from making tablets and ditching the e-ink Provok because the caller craved to build a single-intention device for "serious readers." This is also why Amazon waited to build a color Kindle. But if reports that Amazon is building a serial publication of Humanoid-powered tablets are true, perhaps Amazon could bridge the gap between e-reader and tablet using electrowetting engineering, either by maintaining its loyalty to serious readers and single-purpose devices — but with color — or creating a hybrid tablet.

Either way, keep your eyes peeled: Samsung intends along mass producing electrowetting displays by the end of this year.