And thanks for sharing the WordPress screenshot, I never knew I could change the color scheme to blue :) It looks so much nicer!

Congratulations guys. I’ve been reading your blog since I weighed 130lbs!

And in honor as well, let us celebrate some other “Product Freeze” news, that a revolution in portable computing is on the horizon… and will start to show up this summer.

http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/02/02/product-freeze/

Feb 2nd 2009 Pixel Qi website quotes:

“We have been feverishly working on designing our first screen product We will be sampling our 10″ screens this spring and plan to be in high volume mass production this summer”.

“Also, while we have a high resolution paper-white black and white, we also provide, in the same screen fully saturated color fidelity – the same as a standard laptop screen – same color, contrast resolution, field of view etc.”

” In addition, by integrating the screen with the electronics driving the screen a 5-fold increase in battery life between charges can be achieved”.

**** AND they will first release a 10 inch screen SO you know what that will end up in… Yep, it will be in a netbook! Now, which manufacturer, and model will it end up in?

Of note, the ARM based units already have better power savings than the Intel units and if an ARM based unit, with Pixel Qi screen (hopefully with touch screen), and with an oS like Ubuntu based CrunchBang or another quick Openbox based LXDE distro (Openbox with a GUI), like U-lite, or another fast LXDE distro…

AND if these have 20 hours (OR MORE) of use on a 3 cell battery… well, that will be amazing!

I wonder what Intel is thinking about this development (and if they will be telling their OEMs to look seriously at using these screens FIRST).

Also, to ponder this. If the reality is, that this Pixel Qi Web Site’s declared Mission Statement / Vision Statement… comes true, then next year, at this time, we will be looking at a whole different mobile computing reality. CES will then be really really interesting to attend… as whoever is not playing this game, will be wishing that they were. Those that make the move will have folks 10 people deep all clustering around booths showing 20 hour PLUS netbooks running on what CPU and what OS? Well, Pixel Qi says that the OS and the CPU is meaningless, so what surprises are in store from that concept? Hmmm?

From: pixelqi.com/mission

“Pixel Qi has a belief on the future of the computing – it’s not about the CPU or the OS – It is about the screen”.

“Instead of focusing on higher speed (more MHz) and larger memory (more GBytes), we work toward new device designs by focusing on displays that we can read, as easily as paper – indoors and out – with battery life measured in days not hours”.

I can’t wait for summer.

AND I can’t wait for what coverage on your blog will provide as we start to see real Pixel Qi Screen based products with a real portable long battery vision start to appear.