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Re:Introducing Pebble Time by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:03PM (#9103841)
Well, thank marketing for you being impressed.

It's actually the only issue I have with Pebble. They are all amazing and unicorns, but why on Earth intentionally confuse people to think they're buying an e-ink display? It's not e-ink, it's e-paper, a fancy name for something that is not the thing that uses zero energy when not updating.

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Re:Introducing Pebble Time by Infinitesimus on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:41PM (#9104055)
The site in the OP explicitly states that it is an e-paper display, and so does the video....
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Re:Introducing Pebble Time by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @06:29PM (#9104278)
So it was with the original Pebble, and then, just like now, most people don't know the difference. "E-paper" is commonly understood as "the stuff Kindles are made of".

I actually asked them about it during the original Pebble campaign, because you couldn't really tell if the display is e-ink even though they strongly implied so. I don't recall getting any response.

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