Originally read at CES a couple of geezerhood ago , Qualcomm ’s Mirasol show technology was assure to bridge over the gap between LCD and e - ink display technology . And even though Qualcomm coldcock a lot of money into make the infrastructure to put the displays into output , their arrival has been very , very slow .
mime the iridescent nature of a butterfly stroke ’s wing , the Mirasol video display applied science sips power like an e - ink display , but still delivers full motion picture and animated UIs . And also colour . But color that wait like the faded sign in the window of your local convenience store .
Playing with one of the first eReaders to use a Mirasol display , the Korean Kyobo , the people of color were unfortunately a routine on the unsatisfying side . There ’s a considerable amount of dithering going on , which is a technique used to reduce the banding learn in gradients on color presentation with a modified bit depth . And while the Mirasol can indeed treat full gesture video recording , there was the occasional expend frame and tearing , but that could also be have-to doe with to the processor used on the Kyobo . So it seems that so as to really take reward of a Mirasol showing , a tablet equipment will have to be equipped with a fairly capable processor , which could reduce some of the excellent shelling animation the technology promises .
By this point I had hop that Mirasol displays would be popping up in far more devices than just a Korean eReader , but it ’s clean that the engineering science is n’t exactly the consummate hybrid of Es - ink and LCDs . In fact , while I was originally very excited about what Qualcomm had manipulate up , I ’m starting to get the same sinking feeling I had with SED display technology that never came to be . [ Qualcomm ]
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