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do you use e-inc tablets? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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i don't since i don't read much and i am fine without the paper feeling mabye

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[โ€“] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only eink device I ever owned was a Pebble. It was pretty great in its time though.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The pebble was "e-paper" which was a marketing term for a transflective LCD. It was not e-ink.

E-ink is a proprietary display tech that uses actual magnetized "ink" suspended in "liquid" cells. By pushing and pulling dark/light ink particles with an array of tiny electromagnets, it physically "paints" an image onto the display surface. Even if you entirely cut power, the image remains indefinitely.

Transflective LCD, is an LCD, and while its an extremely small amount, it does still need power to stay on.

[โ€“] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fossil has an eink hybrid now icymi

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I have one. Been wearing it for years, now. I like it a lot. I'd still take pebble still being around, over it, but it's a close second.

[โ€“] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using a Garmin these days, very good battery life!

[โ€“] HidingCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pebble's marketing campaign is so good, I'm still correcting people to this day. xD It's something they call "e-paper", but it's really a transflective LCD (remember those?). Nowhere like e-ink.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Transflective LCDs are great, and I really wish they got used more. Smartwatches are such a perfect application, yet everyone still slaps on energy-hungry oleds that literally degrade from the UV radiation of sunlight.

But they have literally nothing in common with e-ink.

[โ€“] bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Love my transflective Garmin watch... But they seem to be moving towards oled too...