>>107826750
Because tablets need high refresh rates and color, which E-ink sucks at. Anything you might reasonably do on a E-ink tablet you can already do in any random E-ink reader

We would need more 60Hz displays first.

>>107826750
>Why has no big brand succeeded in the e-ink tablet space?
Devices with e-ink displays are, frankly, DOA outside of e-readers. There are too many downsides to e-ink for it to be used in a general purpose device. You just can't do much on a screen that has below average contrast ratios in low light conditions, a terrible refresh rate, awful ghosting and latency, and worse color reproduction than newsprint.
I have a hunch that reflective LCD is going to sweep e-ink and take a larger portion of the market in the tablet space once a serious manufacturer (not TCL) realizes it's potential. Being made from normal LCD displays is a huge advantage.

>>107826750
Amazon has succeeded bigly in the e ink tablet space

>>107828756
Surely a reflective LCD still needs a constant supply of power supplied to it? That's the main advantage of e ink displays, and it's why they are showing up everywhere like supermarket shelf labels

>>107830644
yes but it's fuck all, just look at watches and calculators

>>107826750
>Why has no big brand succeeded in the e-ink tablet space?
reading books is too niche of a market now. e-ink wouldve done numbers in 1995.

>>107826750
if i want 7 inch, black and white display, asymmetric design, buttons, no android what do you recommend? I was thinking about old oasis, they are cheap used but it looks like they are unrepairable. Is pocketbook era my only real option brand new? there is few used eras and kobo libra on my local marketplace but prices are so high that i would be better buying something new. Running old kindle, works fine but blue light fucks with my sleep

>>107830651
I can't see the same degree of benefit, if you want a sharp display you'll need a lot of pixels, a calculator only has dozens of pixels