Both my Kindle and my Sony have the split-second black flash. Before I bought my Sony, I read every review of an e-Ink device I could find, and they all seem to mention it.
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 5:03 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Greg, I agree with you, the reverse flicker is crap. I saw it while playing with one and that instantly put me off it. Ken, at first I thought the same, that all eInk was like that but every other eInk device I've played with doesn't do that. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 22:36, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > That is the way that e-Ink works. The battery is used to reset the display to > whatever the new content is. Battery isn't used (AFAIK) to display a static > page. > > I found that I got used to it pretty quickly and it doesn't bother me > anymore. I'm assuming you are seeing the screen flip to black for a fraction > of a second, before displaying the next page? > > Cheers > Ken >
