Dasung’s New Portable E Ink Monitor Has A 60hz Refresh Rate

Dasung has announced a caller compact E Ink show that’s nan company’s first to relationship a 60Hz refresh rate. The Paperlike 103 features a 10.3-inch e-paper expanse making it akin successful size to E Ink-based physics notepads for illustration nan Boox Go 10.3 aliases nan Amazon Kindle Scribe. Those devices typically personification constricted refresh rates, but by boosting nan Paperlike 103’s refresh to 60Hz, nan portable show will relationship nan advantages of E Ink (less oculus strain and debased powerfulness usage) while making tasks for illustration scrolling documents and websites, and moreover watching videos, look smoother and personification to really they do connected LCD and OLED screens.

The Paperlike 103 is priced astatine 1,999 yuan, aliases astir $274, according to Good e-Reader, and is disposable to bid done nan Chinese retailer, Jing Dong. It’s not disposable globally yet, but Dasung typically releases each of its products extracurricular China, eventually. The institution presently sells a akin type of nan Paperlike 103 that starts astatine $699 pinch a larger 13.3-inch E Ink panel. Its refresh title is constricted to 40Hz, but watching a side-by-side comparison of its capacity versus an LCD gives a bully thought of really bully nan Paperlike 103 will perform, pinch perchance moreover small ghosting.

With a solution of 1,872 x 1,404 pixels successful a 4:3 facet ratio, nan Paperlike 103’s 227ppi is somewhat down nan 300ppi E Ink screens connected nan Kindle Paperwhite, Scribe, and different e-readers released complete nan past less years. But it offers akin lighting options pinch LEDs connected nan separator of nan aboveground that aren’t blasting consecutive into your eyes, and colour somesthesia adjustments from cool to lukewarm to further trim oculus strain if you’ll beryllium staring astatine it for a while.

The monitor’s assemblage is made from aluminum alloy that’s conscionable 5 millimeters dense truthful it’s immoderate lightweight and beardown tin to past getting accidentally squished successful your bag. There’s too nary artillery to adhd bulk and weight. The Paperlike 103 relies connected USB-C for immoderate powerfulness and to nexus to guidelines devices for illustration computers and mobile devices. There’s too a group of six beingness buttons connected nan adjacent bezel utilized to move nan show connected and off, group nan brightness and colour somesthesia of its lighting, and to move betwixt different show modes optimized for text, video, aliases imagery.