Comments on: iPad first impressions

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:50:17 +0000

Hopefully, growing popularity of light-weight color e-reader devices will encourage book publishers to include more color content. (Note: A color multi-touch Kindle is rumored to be in the works: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/technology/04amazon.html)

Perhaps some past popular books might be spruced up with color photos, illustrations, charts, diagrams, etc, and re-released in color e-book form. Sort of like colorizing some old movies, but without botching it up we hope.

I would also love to receive all my magazines on a light-weight color e-reader. Indexing and searching them would be splendid as well. Am I asking too much of the paltry storage? Perhaps.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:37:39 +0000

@stefan: Maybe it’s just a poor photo, but the MSI screen does not look good.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:56:55 +0000

I really want a tablet but I’m not sure the iPad is the one I’ll get. MSI has also a hot contenter in the pipeline with Android and a Tegra chipset. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100128PD214.html

I think its better to wait and see.

By: SharedProphet

SharedProphet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:57:41 +0000

Just discovered Pixel Qi screens today. Wow! : ) Bet Kindle 3 uses one…

Off topic, Steve, you get this plugin to make images align correctly in your feed: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/align-rss-images/

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:05:06 +0000

Only thing I wanna know is when can I start playing Torchlight on it?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:19:45 +0000

I expect that will come in version 2 or 3 of the device, assuming it catches on. Pixel Qi’s screens are impressive compared to e-Readers, but they’re not good enough in backlit mode for an Apple showcase product yet – in backlit mode (required for video) they lose colour definition faster at angles compared to normal LCDs, so I expect Apple thought they couldn’t settle for that since video and gaming are front and centre.

If Pixel Qi continues to get better it’ll be more likely I think; I’m sure Apple are aware of them. Right now they beat e-ink hands down for reading, but not regular LCDs for everything else.

By: Jackflap

Jackflap — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:03:05 +0000

Seems to me that this would be much better as an ereader if it had a Pixel Qi display.

Something where the backlight can be turned off to save energy and ease the eyes.

By: mirlix

mirlix — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:52:16 +0000

I hope that epaper will get a lot more useful very quick.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/17/bridgestones-13-inch-color-e-paper-display-handles-pen-input-h/

By: warmi

warmi — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:38:16 +0000

There are rumors all over place … one article claims iPad is using ARM Mali 55 GLES 1.x style GPU.
Kooking at their beta SDK , it cannot be GLES 1.x since the SDK clearly mentions GLES 2.0.

Wikipedia on the other hand claims it is like some version of SGX 54x which would make it at least 2 times as powerful as the 3gs.

I guess we gonna have to wait …

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:31 +0000

Yep, but e-ink also totally sucks for doing anything except static text. Using current e-Readers feels like operating a calculator from 1985.

I read text on a monitor for 8+ hours a day anyway so I’m relaxed about eye strain. Until e-ink can stop sucking so bad at refresh times and lack of colour, I’m happier with a display that can do more.