Last week E Ink attended Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2013 – our very first signage show!
Many of you may not realize this, but E Ink actually started off in signage, with our very first product in 2000 – a simple segmented large area sign.
Yesterday, December 12, our customer, Yota, announced a new phone coming in 2013 that features an E Ink display.
While E Ink has been included in cell phones before, with the Motofone F3, the Samsung Alias 2 and the Sony Ericsson Urbano Affare, the E Ink display had been a small supplemental display, or a keypad. The Yota product marks the first time E Ink will be a large secondary display on a smartphone.
Yet this phone is not significantly heavier or using significantly more power. How is this possible?