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First Folding-Screen e-Book Reader
MJArrison writes "Yahoo is carrying a Reuters story about a laptop that isn't much more than a foldable LCD screen. It's very small screen 6.7"x5" appears to be a strange black on green monochrome, so it better be cheap. It's made by Samsung and will be launched in Korea first." It's a start; I can't wait for them to integrate an IBM 701cs style camber for both screen and keyboard. T. adds: Rather than a general-purpose laptop, it looks like this is being pushed as an specialized device for reading e-texts.
The GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Color both used reflective LCDs, and both with poor results. Yes, they're cheaper than normal LCDs because you don't need a backlight, but they're also horribly dark and the contrast is awful. The cries of bloody murder over the GBA screen should be evidence of this. On top of that, the things are fragile as hell, the only reason they work well in the GBA is because they're buried far below the casing. Reflective LCDs are a good idea, but they often need their own external light source in order to be usable (which defeats the purpose.) Hopefully nobody in their right mind would use one in an eBook thing.