Gonna say what everyone haven’t: the display is great to read but that’s it. The hardware is mediocre at best, and SolOS is unimpressive. At $730 it’s DOA since the iPad Air M2 exists and you can watch streaming on that.
So far, this thing doesn’t seem like a very impressive tablet. But Daylight is more a display company than a tablet company — and the display is pretty great.
Hmm.
kagis
It looks like you can get this RLCD stuff as a computer monitor, too.
https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/product/The-rE-Monitor-Featuring-32-Color-RLCD-Technology
full color RLCD computer monitor A vacation for your eyes
With SVD’s groundbreaking reflective LCD technology, you get all the benefits of LCD monitors without all the headaches —zero blue light emissions, no backlight-related flickering, and brightness perfectly matched to your surroundings.
If laptop screens could be disconnected so that one could swap a display of different type in, I imagine that it’d be nice to swap one of these in if you wanted to work outside.
Not really new. It’s basically LCD without backlight. So, higher resolution GBC / GBA alike screen.
LCD + optional backlight + mirror.
Reminds me of my old Nokia 3650… no smartphone has come close to it in daylight readability for over 20 years.
Or the N900 which even had fluid animations and scrolling which this company still seems to struggle with
It had a transflective screen too??
I kind of dropped out of the Nokia world once they switched to Maemo. Used to develop stuff for Symbian, Flash, and WAP, but then rode that 3650 all the way into Android on a Nexus One.
I get that this one is more of a tech demo for large format transflective. If they made it a color screen, at a decent resolution, that could be interesting… but outdoor use also means they need to ruggedize it a bit, hm.
I find the screen technology itself to be interesting, but it’s more a competition to e-ink devices than to common tablets. However, the price is too high to be well received, unfortunately. I love reading devices, but the best I could do is a 10yo refurbished one. I wonder why they’re always so expensive…
Yeah nope from me at that price I’d want something with good specs and colour eink.
Product makes no sense to me and from the review it’s overpriced, badly made and barely works.
Point of an eink device to me is either to solely read or save a lot of battery this does neither.
