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Originally Posted by fearindex
While I do think you are right that an enthusiast forum like this does exaggerate the problem, I think you are not being completely fair on the nature of the Paperwhite device. Whereas Kindles of yore (and the current $69 Kindle) only had one element in the screen, the e-ink screen, the Paperwhite actually has six new things in there: a light guide, a touch layer and four LEDs.
Those things have been shown to greatly increase the chance of getting a bad screen: impurities can get between the layers, the layers may be misaligned and layers may have imperfections like pin-holes - before there were no layers, so not a problem. And those four LEDs, due to manufacturing allowances/differences, may result in inconsistent lighting - before there weren't LEDs on the device itself, so any lighting issues didn't affect the reader unit.
Now, of course the average user is not at all as sensitive to any such issues that may crop up with a Paperwhite, but the nature of the technology does seem to make them more likely at least. (Just like average users wouldn't care about light leakage and dead pixels on LCDs, doesn't mean those aren't a real and more likely issue with some technologies - compared to, say, CRTs.)
I too have owned tons of Kindles and the first to give me any grief were the PWs.
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Agreed that there is more that can go wrong and that there are two different issues. The Pin holes and the coloring/light issue. I think the pin hole is more of a QC issue and something that Amazon will be able to get under better control. The PW2 3G's went out recently and I have not heard of anyone getting a PW2 3G wiht pin holes.
The color lighting mess I think is more how peoples individual eyes preceive light. We have beaten this topic to death but I don't think that there is much that Amazon can do about that. Some folks eyes simply see things that others peoples eyes do not. So screens that look fine for one person are awful for another. I don't consider that a QC issue because I don't think it is fixable.