Thread: New eink Kindles coming?
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Old 08-04-2012, 01:43 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by ZigZagJoe View Post
Only thing I really want from a new kindle is a plastic substrate screen.
Sadly, the LG plastic eink screens that were supposed to be released in Onyx ebook readers a couple of months ago were delayed indefinately due to a 20% failure rate (of the eink controller):
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...creen-ereaders

And wexler bought the entire production run of LG flexible plastic eink screens:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-new-flexible/

So they are not likely to show up in kindles any time soon.
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