Dasung’s latest color E ink monitor is portable

It whitethorn look similar different e-note tablet, but Dasung’s Paperlike Color is really a portable show featuring a 12-inch colour E Ink surface with a solution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels. For those moving remotely, it tin supply other surface existent property for a laptop oregon a smartphone, oregon its reflective e-paper sheet tin service arsenic an alternate 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 mentation sells for $1,649, portion the caller portable mentation is disposable present for $849.

The Kaleido show exertion works by applying a colour filter implicit 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 lone show 4,096 colors, compared to the millions that LCD oregon OLED screens tin display.

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

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

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