11-19-2011, 09:51 PM | #16 |
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I'm quite happy with my screen. No noticeable ghosting.
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11-20-2011, 01:07 PM | #17 |
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It is very strange. I set the Touch to refresh every time. The ghosting seems to come and go though. It is not enough to bother me but it is there.
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11-20-2011, 02:27 PM | #18 |
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I have significant ghosting on my KT, mostly on the Home screens. But it still bugs me, as it is much worse than with the other Kindles I have had. Seems to me a software update could fix it.
However, between this, the selection limitations, lack of internationalization features like K4, lack of orientation settings, the weird tap zones and inconsistent gestures, loss of 'go to' on Home screen, etc., I will probably be throwing this fish back. I would consider getting it again when there is an update that addresses some of these things. In the meantime I might just root my Nook Touch and run K4Android on there... Last edited by tomsem; 11-20-2011 at 02:42 PM. |
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11-20-2011, 04:22 PM | #20 |
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I also experience ghosting rarely, just in certain light. Have not quite figured out the wheres and whens, however.
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11-20-2011, 05:39 PM | #21 |
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FWIW on a prs-650 there is always significant ghosting when changing to an image / screensaver. This is because the sony only flashes the page when moving between pages of a book. Bear that in mind when seeing ghosting on screensavers. The K4T probably works in the same way.
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@tomsem: Sorry, I know this is off-topic, but could you expand on what you mean by 'lack of internationalization features'? Ever since the KT started shipping, I've been wondering if the virtual keyboard can produce accented characters like é, ü and ç. Can it? Thanks in advance.
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11-30-2011, 08:19 AM | #24 |
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maybe we should have a poll on this thread to vote this?
BTW:Yesterday when I first hear about this ghosting issue, I googled and found that there is a thread on amazon's forum: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/r...TxMKG3P8ONDKC7 |
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11-30-2011, 06:15 PM | #26 |
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Just to give an update on this. I've had 3 Kindle Touch now, and another one from a friend of mine, they all share the identical ghosting issue, not a huge deal but definitely worse than K4NT. So this seems like a firmware thing to me. I'm just going to live with it since it doesn't bother me much for reading.
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11-30-2011, 06:45 PM | #27 |
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I have exchanged 4 kindle touch units. All suffering from low-contrast regular font and ghosting issues. I'm tired and I'm keeping the last one. :\
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11-30-2011, 09:43 PM | #29 |
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My Touch does exactly the same thing on the home screen and screensavers, but I just took it to mean they're not doing a complete refresh between home screens and the screensaver. There's no reason to believe another Touch would behave differently.
This looks like a conscious decision not to flash between home screens. It looks like the setting that we can change only applies inside books. The argument to have would be with Amazon's design team. |
11-30-2011, 09:46 PM | #30 |
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Same here. Not bothered by it. Within books I have it set to refresh every 6 pages. No problems with ghosting. That's my main concern. Yeah, a full refresh when transitioning to Home or screensaver would be nice and even expected perhaps. I don't feel shortchanged or disappointed in any way.
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