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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] wise@feddit.uk 11 points 6 days ago (13 children)

Core 2 Duo

  • 1.2" black/white e-paper screen

Core Time 2

  • 1.5" 64 color e-paper screen

Am I missing something?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

The watch featured a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective LCD"

The problem is that e-paper is a category of displays, and some companies label reflective LCDs as "e-paper". Which is subjective (and I personally heavily disagree with that categorization, cause then LCD clocks and Gameboys have "e-paper" displays, too).

But in the comment I responded to it was said Pebble has "eink" display, which is categorically wrong, as that is a very specific proprietary technology, which is e-paper in traditional sense, like the ones in Kindles.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Your response says, "not epaper" which is categorically wrong. I assume you meant to say "eink"

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

As I mentioned earlier, whether a screen type is considered e-paper is subjective. And in my opinion, reflective LCD isn't a type of e-paper. You may disagree, but it's not "categorically" wrong.

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