It's been a few days since we've talked about Qualcomm Mirasol Display and here comes the first announcement of a device that adopts one. We call that by the panel is actually very innovative and you can combine the best of current LCD technology and e-Ink, inheriting from the first fast refresh , which can also display video and the ability to reproduce a wide color range, while the second take ease of reading and ease, thanks to the equip of backlighting that makes the image more like that of a newspaper or a book, with low consumption.
In fact, The panel is based on a complex technology that reflects the external light to reproduce the different colors to run and requires only a fraction of the energy required for a modern LCD with LED backlight. Kyobo’s Book Centre is the largest retailer book of South Korea, like Amazon or Barnes & Noble in the U.S., and is about to produce its own eReader, simply called Kyobo eReader. The device will obviously have a display from Qualcomm Mirasol 5.7 inches with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels , 223 pixels per inch density and obviously support multi-touch.
The processor also will be newbie and also produced by Qualcomm, a 1 GHz Snapdragon S2. Other features are the operating Google’s system of Android 2.3 Gingerbread , a highly customized version to provide the access to the database of over 90,000 titles Kyobo and a WiFi module. Due to the characteristics of the display of this device has a range of several weeks with a Songolo’s charge, just like for the eReader e-Ink screens, but with the advantage of that color, you can view movies.
Kyobo eReader is available for South Korea at a cost about $ 310 , but currently there are no news of a possible marketing outside national borders. We'll see if the next CES in Las Vegas to be held in January 2012 there will be announcements of other devices equipped with this attractive display Qualcomm. Meanwhile you can see it live, in this first video hands-on.
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