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What's a good transflective phone?

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lectraplayer

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I would love to get a transflective (ePaper, etc.) Android phone. I've seen a few that have a transflective screen as a secondary display like the YodaPhone, but I am wanting a transflective main screen. I can give up things like full motion video (maybe down to a few frames a second, even for Angry Birds or YouTube) so long as I can read text and see photos outdoors, where I spend a lot of time. If I need more video capability, I may watch it on my DLP TV. Grayscale or color can also be trareable. I would like a backlight similar to Nook's GlowLite but I don't have to have it. Does a phone like this exist? Is it available Stateside?
 
It sounds like Mirasol may be similar to DLP. It seems like carriers like Southern Linc and construction-oriented companies would be interested. ...then again, they may not know. I would certainly push it for devices oriented for outdoor enthusiasts.
 
Mirasol and DLP are both MEMS devices but the similarity ends there.

http://www.qualcomm.com/mirasol/technology

A Mirasol display acts like a high speed color ePaper.

A DLP is a micromirror array that's used with its own colored light source to reflect an image for projection (whether to an integrated screen or an external one).

The Qualcomm Toq smartwatch uses a Mirasol and the new LG smartwatch coming soon might (or, it could be a transreflective LCD like the Sony smartwatch).

There was a transreflective tablet some years back, the Notion Ink Adam with its Pixel Qi display, but I haven't seen similar since.
 
I remember seeing ads for the Clover Sunbook a couple years ago and there were PDAs that had transflective LCDs that wsrs pretty decent. I was wondering why interest fizzlsd on them instead of most smartphones having them. Modern displays still falter under some of the in store displays I see.
 
I've seen a few ruggedized phones from time to time with them - no idea why these don't take off.

You'd need a separate light source for a Mirasol - and you can kiss readability and battery problems goodbye.

I'd go for one, definitely.
 
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