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> I would have loved the e-ink concept continuously iterated.

I'm probably gonna sound like a broken record in this thread but the Pebble never used e-ink, it used a MIP LCD, and MIP never went away. Lots of sports watches use the exact same display technology from the exact same supplier (Sharp) to this day.






Fair enough!

I was positive that some of the hype and/or marketing around it called e-ink but it looks like either my recollection is bad, or the hype was wrong.


Pebble were always careful to use the generic term "e-paper", which some people assumed to be the same thing as e-ink, but it's a different technology. Besides, e-ink is actually a trademark so they couldn't call it that anyway.

E-inks claim to fame is using zero power when static, but it has very sluggish pixel response times, while MIP LCDs use very little (but not zero) power when static and have fast pixel response times when dynamic.


Yep, that is probably where my confusion came from.

Which watches currently use MiP LCD?

Garmin, Coros, Suunto and Polar all make fitness watches with MIP displays. Some of them sell a mixture of MIP and OLED models though, so check the specs. If you want extremely long battery life above all else then the Coros Pace 3 is a good starting point.

"MIP" ?

I thought it was called transflective : for transmittive + reflective ?


https://www.sharpsde.com/technologies-for/memory-in-pixels/m...

MIP refers to the displays ability to retain the last frame indefinitely, unlike typical LCDs which need an external controller to refresh them constantly, even if every frame is identical to the last one.




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