Thread: Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions
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Old 10-19-2013, 12:32 PM   #1564
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Originally Posted by xendula View Post
I got my replacement yesterday - third time's the charm?
The contrast is tons better, the black much blacker, even without my own fonts. There are no color hues. oK, the lower left corner is very very very faintly more greenish than the rest, but I can live with this.

One issue that I have is what I think Sparklemotion had reported on one of them: there is an extra flash between pages - I don't know how else to describe it. When I turn pages, I can see the font in the original page slowly get pixilated and extra bold, then the new page form. Page refresh is off. It's a bit distracting and I have to see if I can live with this. Also, while there are a ton of dust particles between the screens, they are small enough for me to believe that they are not actual holes, but there is a shimmer all over the middle section. I have to see if I can live with this.

What bugs me a bit is what I noticed on all of the ones I have: the white is not really uniform. I don't know if there are dust particles or if they purposely made it so weird as to resemble real paperback paper, but there is tons of grey, like grey dots, or, like marble. I do not like this, but since I saw it on all the PW2 I got, I assume that's typical for all. It's hard to capture this in images. Can anyone see it when comparing the PW1 background to the PW2 background? The bakcground itself is a bit lighter colored nd has a yellowish tint, but a pleasant one. The light is also a bit yellowish, but not like my pee colored one - it's very pleasant to the eyes.

Yesterday, I had a few spontaneous shutdowns. Very strange, but it hasn't happened again.

I'll do some more reading and see if the above issues bother me, especially the way the pages refresh (this was not happening on my first two PW2s I received, BTW). I love the contrast on the device I received. It's awesome. I'll try to add a picture later.
Glad you're happy, xendula! I did have that refresh issue on one of my earlier PW2's, yes. I don't have it on my current one. I really hope this one will be a keeper for you!
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