The Reuters article also quotes an analyst, Jennifer Colegrove, Vice President of Emerging Display Technologies at DisplaySearch, an NPD Group company: "They [Amazon] can afford to add a front light because the component is not very expensive and their display otherwise uses very little energy."
"I do see demand for a front-lit Kindle," said Jennifer Colegrove, Vice President of Emerging Display Technologies at DisplaySearch, an NPD Group company, which monitors trends in the display sector.
Date: May 14, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Apple Will Dominate Tablet Market Through 2012, DisplaySearch Says
"Tablet PCs are the fastest growing application for touch screens," DisplaySearch's vice president of emerging display technologies Jennifer Colegrove said in a statement. "Most tablet PC products will leverage multi-touch projected capacitive technology, following Apple's lead."