Dasung’s latest color E ink monitor is portable

It whitethorn look for illustration different e-note tablet, but Dasung’s Paperlike Color is really a portable show featuring a 12-inch colour E Ink surface pinch a solution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels. For those moving remotely, it tin supply other surface existent property for a laptop aliases a smartphone, aliases its reflective e-paper sheet tin service arsenic an replacement to staring astatine an LCD for hours, frankincense reducing oculus strain.

The Paperlike Color is Dasung’s 2nd dedicated show merchandise featuring an E Ink Kaleido 3 colour screen, pursuing a 25.3-inch desktop version that debuted past September. The desktop type sells for $1,649, while nan caller portable type is disposable now for $849.

The Kaleido show exertion useful by applying a colour select complete a achromatic and achromatic E Ink panel, but that attack has immoderate limitations. In achromatic and achromatic mode, E Ink’s Kaleido 3 screens person a solution of 300 ppi, but successful colour mode, that drops to 150 ppi. In addition, Kaleido 3 exertion tin besides only show 4,096 colors, compared to nan millions that LCD aliases OLED screens tin display.

The astir compelling logic to usage an E Ink show is that it’s designed to bespeak ambient light, alternatively of emitting its own. That tin make nan screens easier to ore connected for longer periods, and it’s why reference devices for illustration nan Amazon Kindle person remained truthful popular. But nan Paperlike Color tin besides beryllium utilized successful nan dark, acknowledgment to an optional neutral-colored beforehand ray that illuminates nan screen.

Other features see touchscreen functionality, beingness buttons connected nan bezel for adjusting various show settings, and Dasung’s “Turbo Refresh Tech,” which boosts nan refresh complaint of nan E Ink sheet truthful users tin watch videos connected it. And acknowledgment to a lodging made from CNC carved aluminum alloy, nan portable Paperlike Color weighs 439 grams (about 15.5 ounces), which is lighter than some nan 11 and 13-inch iPad Air.

The biggest sticking constituent is nan Paperlike Color’s $849 value tag, which is much costly than either iPad Air model. The show doesn’t see a rechargeable artillery (it must beryllium physically connected to your instrumentality pinch a USB-C cable), limiting wherever you tin usage it, and contempt looking nan part, it doesn’t usability arsenic a standalone tablet. If you’re specifically looking for an LCD aliases OLED alternative, nan Paperlike Color will springiness you that successful a portable package. But if you’ve already sewage a tablet, location are plentifulness of apps allowing you to repurpose it arsenic a 2nd screen.