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No, the Pebble used a Sharp Memory LCD, a different transflective technology. It can only do greyscale while pixelQi uses prisms to separate the colors. That's why you get color with backlight and greyscale out in the sun.


> It can only do greyscale

Eh? My Pebble Time has a color screen, and it sure is transflective.


The pebble time has a display like an old Game Boy Color


I can speak only for the Pebble Time Steel, but it is leaps and bounds better than the gameboy color.

I would kill for an equivalent display in a laptop - saturated colours and eink readability in direct sunlight with 30hz refresh


And so does Pixel Qi. They're both LCD, after all.


"transflective" is just a broad description of displays which take in light and reflect it back, implementations and drawbacks vary.




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