abfarid

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I love both of the hosts. Wish they just switched to something else instead of canceling completely. Could've done regular science news.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

It was obviously sarcasm with that 100ths precision rating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

iDreams (Infinite Dreams) didn't make the cut? I love their Sky Force games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Your mom ends in butt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I'm not criticizing the screens, they are ok and I loved my Pebble Time Steel until the battery swelled and popped off the screen. I'm just saying that calling these e-paper is a deceptive marketing strategy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

From the Verge article:

The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. [...] It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 (technically a transflective LCD, if you’re curious)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Quote is from Wikipedia. You can see it's the case for both models here:

Besides, I own a Pebble Time watch and can tell you, it doesn't perform like a typical e-paper. It has the bad viewing angles of LCD and screen goes blank when power is lost.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (14 children)

IIRC, it has a reflective LCD, not epaper display.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's with the egg covering the PS logo?

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