E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4
46 points by Perroboc 2 hours ago | 13 comments

okuntilnow 4 minutes ago
The contrast improvement is welcome for sure, but it remains to be seen what difference 15% white reflectivity makes.

Previous Kaleido products are fundamentally flawed. I'd hoped they would bin it for something better rather than make incremental improvements. Think it's also debatable what value colour brings unless you are regularly reading full colour magazines, PDFs etc.

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ihuman 2 hours ago
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real_faxenoff 14 minutes ago
I've always wanted a color E-Ink tablet, but I could never figure out exactly why. Doctor, what's wrong with me?
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qzw 10 minutes ago
Me too. But it’s better than wanting a megayacht or some other more ridiculous affliction, isn’t it?
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MattTheRealOne 36 minutes ago
Hopefully this means a new Kobo Libra before too long.
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packetlost 41 minutes ago
Too bad this didn't make it into the new Kindle Colorsoft. Oh well
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IshKebab 33 minutes ago
This is their colour filtered black and white product. Quite muted colours in the past and it only really works well with a front light, which kind of ruins the point IMO.

I'm much more interested in their Spectra and Gallery displays which use color pigments. You can even buy e-ink gallery style displays for a totally unreasonable price!

https://inkposter.com/products/inkposter-tela-28-5?variant=4...

Actually to be fair that is not a totally crazy price.

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pixelready 8 seconds ago
It’s requiring all my willpower not to take out a second mortgage and build a gallery wall filled with these. That image transition is gross but I guess it takes a lot more steps to move all those pigment layers around.
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zeeveener 20 minutes ago
I wonder how white balance is handled across these products.

I recently bought the InkJoy frame which is similar to what's sold at your link and the white balance is _awful_ and grey.

I naively expect these to reflect light like paper photos and be nearly identical in that regard when mounted beside each other on a wall, but I've been disappointed with the results so far.

Colour depth is not _as_ big a deal to me as the image simply looking natural among printed photos.

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BoingBoomTschak 31 minutes ago
Still nothing for people who don't care about the color gimmick? I mean my Aura One is still going strong, but I fear it'll never be replaced by something better (or even as good).
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jdprgm 8 minutes ago
I also have a kobo aura one and was just recently researching potential upgrades and was shocked even looking outside of strictly kobo that I couldn't find anything that was a clear upgrade or equivalent on various features against it. For a product almost ten years old it's so weird.
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stuxnet79 21 minutes ago
Once I saw that Kobo was going all in on the color e-readers I decided I'm going to sit this whole trend out and bought another Aura One. Between it and the one I currently own they should carry me for a long, long time.

The Aura One is essentially perfect. The only gripes I have are the USB port and non-removable battery. It is a bit slow with the stock OS but with KOreader it runs amazingly well.

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teroshan 25 minutes ago
I'm in the exact same situation, still rocking an Aura One with KOReader and can't find anything with that form factor in black/white that satisfies me.

There's something to be said with a device that has a single purpose and supports custom firmware: other than the micro-USB port and the slightly shorter battery charge I don't think I will be changing it soon.

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