There's something quite unsettling about this, in that the epaper panel is potentially a very useful second monitor designed in the same style as the main monitor, and it could be detachable, freely re-orientable, etc.
But in fact it's totally integrated, following the current anti-modular, if not anti-user philosophy in most consumer hardware, and ends up being a bit of a frankenstein.
Surely the market for each separate monitor. especially the epaper sidekick, would be greater than this weird integrated combo?
I'm looking at this as 'that's cool, but ... wait, what, it's integrated? Why (oh why)?', but maybe I'm missing the specific use-case or customer this might have been designed for.
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There's something quite unsettling about this, in that the epaper panel is potentially a very useful second monitor designed in the same style as the main monitor, and it could be detachable, freely re-orientable, etc.
But in fact it's totally integrated, following the current anti-modular, if not anti-user philosophy in most consumer hardware, and ends up being a bit of a frankenstein.
Surely the market for each separate monitor. especially the epaper sidekick, would be greater than this weird integrated combo?
It doesn't even seem to support DP chaining. Does that mean you need two available usb-c ports on the pc?
I could see it being a big seller in the pharma/Life Science sector where all policies and procedures are still consumed as PDFs
And maybe that's it.
I'm looking at this as 'that's cool, but ... wait, what, it's integrated? Why (oh why)?', but maybe I'm missing the specific use-case or customer this might have been designed for.
Yeah, eink displays seem to work better in a tablet form factor.
Philips could have invested into something similar to paperwhite (indirect backlighting for eink displays)