E Ink Holdings Company has announced the electrophoretic display E Ink Fina. Thin and light, the screen will be the first production of this type, which uses a technology called thin-film transistors on a glass substrate. First to get a new screen PocketBook CAD Reader - a device that is running Android and designed specifically for reading drawings created in CAD software Autodesk AutoCAD.
According to E Ink, the display turned Fina significantly thinner and lighter than is possible in the case of LCD screens. Its weight and thickness is less than 50% of the relevant parameters of the LCD screen. This is particularly important in the case of mobile devices with large screens. Thus, the display size of 13.3 inches Fina installed in PocketBook CAD Reader, weighs '60 g
Base of PocketBook CAD Reader is a dual-core processor, clocked at 1GHz running Android 4.0.4. In the configuration of the device enter 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of flash memory. The device is equipped with a wireless communication Wi-Fi and 3G.
The new screen has kept the most important advantages of electrophoretic screens - low power consumption and high contrast in bright light.