E Ink showed a prototype phone with electrophoretic display

The company E Ink, electrophoretic displays are widely used in e-books, is trying to expand the scope of "electronic paper." A promising direction is to use E Ink screens in cell phones, as these devices are very important to the battery life, and the most important advantage of electrophoretic displays is a very low power consumption. More precisely, the E Ink screens consume power only when changing the image. The limitation is the low update rate and a monochrome display, but with the first drawback developers seem almost managed to cope. In any case, the video, which shows the operation of the prototype machine with electrophoretic screen looks quite convincing at times scroll lists and web-pages.

Became the prototype processor on core Cortex-A5, running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. The source said that while the prototype behaves very stable, hovering, arbitrarily closing the application and restart. Do not forget that his goal - to demonstrate capabilities of the screen.

In order not to put up with the shortcomings screen E Ink, but be able to take advantage of its strengths, it is possible to equip the machine with two screens - electrophoresis and liquid crystal - and use them in turn. This path went creators smartphone YotaPhone, sales will begin in the second half of the year .

Source: Engadget