[meew0]

Something I'm personally excited about: colour e-ink displays. There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). So far the colour reproduction and refresh rate is still somewhat suboptimal, but development appears to be progressing rapidly. I predict that in a few years there will be little reason to get a conventional tablet over an e-ink one, at least for the “reading and taking notes” use case.

[gateorade]

I agree with this and would even go as far as to say color E-INK screens are basically ready to push out greyscale ones right now. The problem is that no one is making a device with them that's any good. I owned one of the boox color e-ink devices for like a week and the experience was awful because it's a full android os shoehorned into something that kind of works on an e-ink display.

[RobotToaster]

High enough quality ones could finally make digital photo frames practical.

[thih9]

> There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500).

Which ones are you referring to? Are they complete and ready to ship products? Or is that a DIY project / kickstarter?

[meew0]

Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc

[spondylosaurus]

Bought one of the monochrome Boox readers a while back and love it—the Google Play Books compatibility is what sold me.

I thought about splurging for a full-color model but wasn't sure whether the tech was there yet. Do you think it's worth the upgrade or should I hold off a little longer?

[idontwantthis]

I compared the two in a store and color was not good. IMO if you want color just get a real tablet. Color e ink is the worst of LCD and e ink. It’s slow and ugly and eats battery life and hurts your eyes in the dark.