There are rumors that Amazon are planning a new Kindle, to be available before christmas 2009. It will have a larger e ink display. The Kindle 2 has a 6" diagonal E Ink display, 600 x 800 pixels at 167 ppi, 16-level gray scale.
Kindle 2The only problem? a larger e ink display will be much more expensive... The current Kindle 2.0 costs 360$.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Hearst Corp has its own E-reader planned for 2010.
Apart from also using E Ink, which Hearst invested in, and a similar flexible display technology, we don't know much about it because Hearst isn't saying much. We're pretty sure the technology comes from FirstPaper, a "stealth startup," backed by Hearst.
Foxit is now selling their eSlick e-reader, for 260$. The eSlick has a 6" e ink 800x600 4-level gray scale display. It comes with 128MB of memory, SD card slot (it comes with a 2GB card) and an MP3 player. The eSlick weights 180gram and supports only .pdf and .txt files.
They also released a nice video of the device:
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) in Arizona University has developed a flexible touch e ink display - that's the first of its kind.
The device that was demonstrated uses plastic materials as a substitute for the glass found in conventional touch screens; the flexible Teonex® polyethylene napthalate (PEN) substrate was supplied by Dupont. It is powered by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors fabricated on the plastic substrate.
