Fujitsu 4096 Color E-Paper

[edit] Fujitsu prototype color e-book reader

Fujitsu presented the prototype of a 4'096 color e-paper during the CEATEC JAPAN 2006 exhibition. The device may be used as an e-book reader (though its resolution is quite low) or as a POS advertisement unit.

(120mm by 160mm) 7.8-inch VGA 640x480 4'096 colors, 110 ppi
only 0.9mm thick
display composed of three cholesteric liquid crystal films (red, green, blue) attached to one another - See e-paper displays
32MB of built-in memory
miniSD slot
weight: 6.2oz (comparison: Sony Portable Reader weighs 8.8oz)
screen refreshes in several sweeps, from left to right
time to redraw a complex image: ~4s
time to redraw a simple 8-color image: ~1s
Fujitsu plans to commercialize the prototype. It will be called the Fujitsu FLEPia