I don’t know how much you are familiar with Pixel Qi display but this new project of screens conducting by Mary Lou Jepsen has been showcasing at Computex Tiepei placed in a 10-inch Acer Aspire One.
Pixel Qi is a “low-cost, low-power, super-readable, LCD-based screens that will go into everything from e-book readers to netbooks and computers.
Pixel Qi’s displays called 3Qi will operate in three settings: a full-color, bright, conventional LCD mode; a very low-power, sunlight-readable, reflective e-paper mode; and a low-power, basic color transflective mode. The screens are initially expected to be available in 10.5-inch and 7.5-inch screen sizes.”
At Computex show folks of Laptop Magazine had theirs hands on this display placed on a Aspire One and evaluated it briefly to know if whatever was described on paper is true on real life.
The power efficient Pixel Qi is easily and totally readable indoor and outdoor (the outdoor visible displays will be ready some time this year).
Here is a runtime of their first impression:
- High resolution display that uses half or quarter of power that a regular LCD draws
- A button to switch on and off the backlight of display
- When backlight is on display is crisp with decent coloring and totally readable in sunny room without any glare
- When the backlight is off display is yet legible and the content is clear and vivid although it goes dim and turns into black and white (losing color).
This type of screen is somehow comparable with the display found on Kindle. A kindle is as expensive as a netbook although it is only an ebook reader. I just hope that Pixel Qi doesn’t add so much to the basic price range of netbooks. (If this display adds just little extra money like ION platform that only raised the price of Atom based netbook for only $50 surely it will immediately be acceptable widely since its release).
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