Today Amazon announced Kindle for the IPhone. Amazon's Kindle is an e-book reader that uses e-paper to create a "book like" reading experience. The difficulty with the Kindle is that one spends $359 + shipping and one has a device that one can only use for reading (device clutter). It is not too portable either. Thus, Kindle iPhone app solves many of these problems. Amazon has a great content list, and Apple has the Jesus Phone. (It presently has 0.5%
of all Internet traffic. )
I still come up a little short on portable devices in general. What is impressive about e-paper is that it uses very little power; and has a completely stable image, making it easy to read. This is possible because e-paper
uses current to switch color "beads" within a matrix (eletrophoretically migration). E-Paper is also very inexpensive.
So why not make a Kindle edition IPhone? An iPhone hybrid: This would be a standard iPhone with an e-paper screen on the back. Who does not want more battery life out of their portable device?
Update - Yota came out with a phone similar to this in 2013. (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20694019)
