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The Motorola F3/MOTOFONE was the first (and still is the only?) mobile phone with an e-paper display. Although this is not a pixel-based display, like found in eBook-readers (e.g. the Amazon Kindle or the B&N nook), it is still quite nice for experimenting with low power microcontroller projects. | The Motorola F3/MOTOFONE was the first (and still is the only?) mobile phone with an e-paper display. Although this is not a pixel-based display, like found in eBook-readers (e.g. the Amazon Kindle or the B&N nook), it is still quite nice for experimenting with low power microcontroller projects. | ||
- | E-paper/bistable displays have the ability to sustain the display content even without the supply of power, so the initial idea I had was to build something like a clock, only powering the display when updating it every minute. | + | E-paper/bistable displays have the ability to retain the display content even without the supply of power, so the initial idea I had was to build something like a clock, only powering the display when updating it every minute. |
===== The display===== | ===== The display===== |