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Old 01-20-2012, 08:25 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I don't understand what's happened to plastic substrates. If memory serves me correctly, in the autumn of 2010 eInk announced that they were commencing commercial production of 6" screens with a plastic substrate, and since then there's been ... nothing. I can only speculate that something went disastrously wrong in the step-up from demonstration models to commercial production, and it just didn't work out.
It might have been simply for scratch resistance and uv protection that a glass pane got added. Let's hope that with Triton material, whether it has the color filter on top or just plain b/w, we might get flexible screens. The device they come in does not necessary be flexible. Now if somebody comes out with a new device it more than likely has to have touch screen as well. But then again, there might be a good reason (e.g. stylus too hard for the screen) that the Jetbook Color does not have a touchscreen ...
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