> While LCDs work poorly in bright sunlight, e-ink works poorly in darkness
I think if you took the backlight out of both of these options you'd find that the lcd doesn't perform so great in the dark either.
I think if you took the backlight out of both of these options you'd find that the lcd doesn't perform so great in the dark either.
This fact is the basis of transflective LCDs, which can work both in sunlight as well as in darkness conditions, and have improved up to the point they compete in contrast with e-Ink panels.
eInk has a much much wider range of workable light levels than any lcd I've used, with or without a backlight. The recent trend away from diffusion layers on lcd glass has also made it a lot worse.