We take a look at the TCL 40 NxtPaper 5G with its matte LCD. Oh, the age-old clash of glossy versus matte displays – a topic igniting more late-night forum...
Colour eink is still very limited, but can’t they make eink (semi-)transparent? Just put eink above the usual LCD/oled and enable/disable them as needed?
Unfortunately, this is not readily done. The displays work by moving pigmented particles closer or further from the surface. Generally the greyscale ones have black and white particles. If one were to swap out the white for transparent, it would just be a bunch of black.
Though, it might be possible to play with particle density. This would likely result in similarly awful refresh rates to color e-ink.
Colour eink is still very limited, but can’t they make eink (semi-)transparent? Just put eink above the usual LCD/oled and enable/disable them as needed?
Unfortunately, this is not readily done. The displays work by moving pigmented particles closer or further from the surface. Generally the greyscale ones have black and white particles. If one were to swap out the white for transparent, it would just be a bunch of black.
Though, it might be possible to play with particle density. This would likely result in similarly awful refresh rates to color e-ink.