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As you point out, while not "multitasking" the iPhone and Touch accomplish the same feat in their own way. If I'm on this board, and someone posts a YouTube video, I click on it and it opens the YouTube app and plays it, and when I close it I'm right back on this board where I was.
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Screens Pixel Qi 3Qi Magic E-Paper and High-Res LCD Dual Display Becomes Real Next Month
By Matt Buchanan on April 24, 2009 at 1:29 AM The display technology Pixel Qi has been promising is revolutionary: A high-res colour LCD and low-power, reflective reader mode better than E-ink. For dirt cheap. And it’s coming next month. If you recall, PixelQi’s founder, Mary Lou Jepsen, is the brains behind the OLPC’s breakthrough reflective screen, and an evangelist for the idea that the future of the computer is in displays. When we talked to her about the problems with e-readers, she predicted that LCD would overtake electrophoretic display technology—aka E-ink—by 2010. The idea isn’t crazy if Pixel Qi’s displays match the hype: One screen that delivers a high-res, colour LCD for normal computer stuff; an e-paper mode that’s even more readable than e-ink; and a super low-power black-and-white mode. And is cheap to make and advance, since it’s fabricated in standard LCD factories. It makes the possibility of a single tablet computer that really can do everything that much more possible. And we’ll get to see the first one, 3Qi, next month. Sure, it’s just a stupid screen, but I’m excited.
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Finally, I hear a peep about that. It's been rumored for forever. I'll wait and see if it lives up to the hype.
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Bye-bye Kindle, E-reader Screens Coming for Netbooks
Dan Nystedt and Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Netbook makers will soon play a larger role in the e-reader market if start-up Pixel Qi has anything to say about it. The company, founded by former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, will show off engineering samples of its first screen product at Computex Taipei 2009 next week, and IDG News Service was able to catch a first look on Friday. The first Pixel Qi product, called 3qi, is a 10.1-inch netbook screen designed to work in three modes: a black-and-white e-ink mode for reading text documents and e-books, and two color modes, designed for use indoors or in bright sunlight, that are more suitable for Web surfing and video playback. E-ink mode extends battery life by shutting off the backlight, and is intended for reading e-books, documents, Web sites or blogs and other text-based material. The screens should be in netbooks and on store shelves by the end of this year, said Jepsen. Giving netbooks new screens capable of making them e-readers could make them compelling holiday presents, for price and functionality alone. E-reader makers have reason to fear such innovation because people will be able to buy devices with more functions for about the same price. The latest Kindle, a stand-alone e-reader, costs US$359 according to Amazon.com, while some of the world's most popular netbooks with 10-inch screens, Asustek's Eee PC 1000HE and Acer's Aspire One AOD150-1165, are similarly priced. New netbooks designed to include e-reader functions will likely have displays that can swivel around to cover the keyboard, a tablet mode good for an e-book reader, said John Ryan, chief operating officer at Pixel Qi. Beyond the screen, netbook users will need e-reader software, which is already available from several companies, including Adobe Digital Editions, Microsoft Reader, Times Reader made from Adobe Air and even Kindle software made for other devices, such as the iPhone. Power consumption is another issue Pixel Qi tackled in its 3qi screens. "What you're looking at is a screen that's entirely reflective," said Ryan, at Pixel Qi's temporary office in Taipei. "It's just running like e-paper so that it's running on the ambient light. It's not fighting the office light , it's not fighting the sunlight. That makes it better for reading but it also cuts the power consumption. The backlight in the screen is typically the largest power drain in any notebook computer." Battery life is vital in mobile devices such as netbooks. Once Pixel Qi screens are more widely adopted in the industry, the company plans to start working more closely with laptop and netbook designers on ways to lower power drain in the overall system, not just the screen. The next major hurdle for Pixel Qi is finding large customers for its new 3qi screens. The screens will cost a little more than conventional LCD screens at first, but costs will go down as production volume picks up, said Jepsen. Pixel Qi designed its screens around the most common technology and production line processes of the day, TFT-LCD (thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display) technology. The company did not say which manufacturers it is working with, but there are several in Taiwan, including AU Optronics, Chi Mei Optoelectronics and Chunghwa Picture Tubes. One bonus for Pixel Qi is that the global recession has hurt LCD demand, freeing up production lines for its new display. But that's about the only benefit from this recession. "People read the news everyday and this has been pretty bad, and so convincing people to take risks during that time was darn hard," said Jepsen. "Venture capital dried up so of course we were trying to get funding during all of that, but we did it."
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Also, I have not heard of flash dieing at all, but lets just say that it is. It wont be dead by time this comes out, and a shit ton of web pages use flash. You will have gaping holes in your browsing expierence. Sounds pretty fail to me And for anyone that thinks that apple is excelerating anything on a 3rd party software development or demise with thier market share vs windows market share, you are severly mistaken. |
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But yea, that's about it. They could have done more. I really hope they get flash video adapt for it, I hate not having that for my iphone.
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The only difference here is what is allowed to multitask. Third party apps aren't. So, please, stop talking out of your ass. Gaping holes? Like what? Hulu? Please cite these "fails". So far, Farmville and Hulu are the two examples I've seen. Accelerating no flash on the mobile market? Hell yes they are. Flash doesn't matter whether it's Windows or OSX or linux. Flash is being phased out by the internet. HTML5 is phasing it out. If you don't see this, you aren't paying attention. Granted, it's just beginning.
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And you may think Flash is being phased out, but it's still going to be around for a long time. Along with Hulu, you also can't view webpages from ESPN, Disney, Miniclip, JibJab, or Kongregate, just to name a few popular ones. By the time HTML5 actually catches on and is viable for the majority of websites, the iPad will be old news. It's not like any websites are going to make an overnight switch to HTML5.
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Flash bandwidth isn't really any worse than any other streaming software. It wouldn't cause any additional network load. Android, Windows Mobile, and the Palm webOS all have Flash players and have for some time, and you don't hear any problems with that.
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Interesting. I wonder how it would fair on AT&T's network with all the iPhones?
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Thought this was interesting as well.
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