The world’s first entirely electronic newspapers will go on trial in France next week, offering not only morning headlines but automatic updates every hour throughout the day.
Oh I did - I just don’t really see the purpose - we’ve got the internet, and we’ve got physical paper - I don’t see what market this will ever serve. Seeing the paper in the sunlight seems like a really small hurdle for laptop screens to cross, so… who’s lining up to get one? All I’m saying
Why are these the first? I know there has been a trial in Belgium, and there’s one running in the Netherlands right now (http://epaper.nrc.nl/).
This part of the article was dubious as well:
“But Orange’s Read&Go is specifically designed to give the same impression as reading a traditional newspaper, including using display technology that paralyses bubbles of ink and is not, like a laptop screen, unreadable in bright sunlight.”
Which is exactly like the display of a Kindle, or an iLiad (by iRex), which is the device shown in the post.
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isn’t this just like… the internet?
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Posted 22 May 2008 at 2:02 pm ¶@Scott
…someone didn’t read the article…
The electronic paper is tied to a hardware reader.
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Posted 23 May 2008 at 2:09 am ¶Oh I did - I just don’t really see the purpose - we’ve got the internet, and we’ve got physical paper - I don’t see what market this will ever serve. Seeing the paper in the sunlight seems like a really small hurdle for laptop screens to cross, so… who’s lining up to get one? All I’m saying
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Posted 23 May 2008 at 2:36 am ¶@ Scott
“Oh I did - ”
Oh no you didn’t!
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Posted 23 May 2008 at 5:30 am ¶Why are these the first? I know there has been a trial in Belgium, and there’s one running in the Netherlands right now (http://epaper.nrc.nl/).
This part of the article was dubious as well:
“But Orange’s Read&Go is specifically designed to give the same impression as reading a traditional newspaper, including using display technology that paralyses bubbles of ink and is not, like a laptop screen, unreadable in bright sunlight.”
Which is exactly like the display of a Kindle, or an iLiad (by iRex), which is the device shown in the post.
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