CES
Photographs of screens really don’t do them justice, one needs to see them directly. Our screens will be around CES next week (we can’t say where - our customers the device makers are using them in their products and will reveal as they decide ). Yet, many members of the press have contacted us asking about this, and we have decided to try to help.
We will open our suite in the Venetian to the press from 7-9AM on Friday January 8th to show you our latest screens. If you are a member of the press and would like to see these screens please rsvp with Courtney Wang ([email protected]).
We regret that we are unable to host the general public at this time, but we will make an announcement on how the public can get our screens soon.
- Mary Lou
I just realized that there’s one image your company can release that pretty much no other screen maker could.
Have you ever taken the screen in BW mode under an outright flatbed scanner?
I ask because I was looking at the sunlight photo you released and the JPEG artifacting made it hard to see how it deals with 1-pixel-width fonts.
@muklex,
in BW mode each pixel is controlled independently, so 1 pixel width fonts will affect one pixel
in color mode things get more complicated, but BW mode is very straightforward
Well, its been a couple of days into CES now and I’ve seen (through Engadget) two promising units. MSI’s dual screened tablet and HP’s single screen slate. However, no mention of Pixel Qi screens in either of them. I was hoping for a brand name to have the 3Qi screen but so far its only start-up Notion Ink’s slate that seems slated for the 3Qi.
Has anyone seen any mention of Pixel Qi screens at CES other than the Notion Ink slate? The suspense is killing me!! There are more manufacturers … right?
“but we will make an announcement on how the public can get our screens soon.
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Can we have a wide variety of screen sizes?
Another question is, my compaq laptop does not have the function to turn only the backlight off, it turns the whole screen display off. What can I do if some day I fit in my laptop with the 3qi panel?
@Rebuilt, the actual conference starts just today. And note how PixelQi keeps using plural form for their customers…
@linrong, Current status is that other sizes will come later. Only 10 inch available as of now.
And even now with CES it appears we still have to wait several months..especially those of us who are not US citizen. I would have bought an eBook-reader several months ago had I known this..
@PixelQi: I’m quite sceptical about the DIY offer. Current netvertibles/tablets are probably highly integrated. How likely is it that the cabeling/sockets matches? What about touch-interface?
@pepe: I could live without touchscreen, especially on my netbook. If I had (or was about to buy) a netvertible, that might be a different story. Besides, Pixel Qi screens themselves have no touchscreen layer, leave alone “touch-interface”.
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As for DIY connectors, I don’t think that’s an impossible (or forbiddingly expensive) task. After all, even netbooks are made to be maintainable, and there’s not that much panels/motherboards/video-chips manufacturers out there. At the very outside, the kits can be made for the most popular models (after careful considerations I propose starting with Samsung NC-10
Wow! The interwebs are awash with video of the 3Qi partying in Las Vegas. Lets hope for the 3Qi that what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. Still we’ve only heard from the Notion Ink folk on the use of the 3Qi with the remainder of Pixel Qi’s tight lipped clients keeping their ships afloat. The suspense!! Will Apple break out a 3Qi i-something-or-the-other later this month, or MSI’s duel be released with 3Qi, or HP’s slate, or the enTourage eDGe pop out an edger version with dual 3Qi? All those 3Qi rolling of the factory line are going somewhere and it doesn’t look as if Notion Ink are that ready to receive them. What if the secrete big name is not Apple but instead Asus? They certainly did a lot with netbooks last year. 3Qi netverables, anyone?
There is a great article on Pixel Qi in the February 2010 edition of Popular Science starting on page 46. I’m about to read it now. From a quick flick there is graphical explanation of the 3Qi technology and two glamour shots of the good doctor. Its six pages long.
Dr. Jepsen, may you make a post about this article for comments?
Thanks,
Rebuilt.
@Rebuilt: Yep, for some reason I’m more excited about 3Qi netvertibles (or even just netbooks) than all this tablet stuff. I mean, almost any e-Ink reader will do for books, and I don’t surf or read news or watch the tube that much, but the ability to _work_ in an epaper mode is something only Pixel Qi can do any time soon.
Well, about Tablets… http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/
I got a bit irritated by that device; I guess that’s an example how the concept suffers from touch screen layers, which are like mirrors, though I suppose its still a huge improvement compared to ordinary screens (after all, no matter how bright the reflections get, the incoming light also improves the brightness of the wanted screen content, right?)
Keep in mind, Yu, that that version is a prototype (the “case” was made out of wood and painted, IIRC). The final version is supposed to have a matte finish. Personally, I’m not even LOOKING at any tablet that doesn’t have a 3Qi screen and a Tegra or ION platform, and the a device with the former chip’s gonna have to have some verification that it can play anything I throw at it, unmodified.
I hope that new Pixel qi displays will no be with glare coating. The mirror-like screens are of no use when working outdoors.
I have no clue where the glossy fad even started. Even non-Qi screens look horrendous with that coating. Does nobody own windows when they design these things?
I’m keeping my hopes up, that they won’t do something as stupid as moving a glossy coating over a pixel qi screen; But are there any non-”glossy” Touchscreens out there?
Even if it was to come with supposedly matte glass surface I seems they will still add unwanted reflections; At least I had that impression with the Viliv S10 on the videos (i.e. http://www.umpcportal.com/2010/01/viliv-s10-at-ces-coming-in-feb/ ) which was announced somewhen to come with a matte touchscreens. Sadly I’m not even sure this holds true for the unit shown, so I can’t really tell…