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Originally Posted by Rizla
In the case of the PW1, there was a huge disconnect between the device as advertized prior to release, and the physical reality. Hardly surprising then that 1) people had high expectations and 2) people were angry and disappointed. Amazon's advertising was extremely misrepresentative of the real frontlight.
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I bought one of the early PW1's and it was better than I hoped for. I still have it. I bought a second one because I decided I wanted 3G and it was every bit as good as the first one.
Now I have a PW2 and my older PW1. I sold the first one with Wifi to a friend. I read with both of them. When I'm paying attention I can see a difference but they're both great for reading and I find I don't really care that much which one I'm using.
I'm sure there were some defective Paperwhite 1's but my guess is there were also a lot of people who found barely perceptible imperfections under odd circumstances and returned them, horrified.
I can turn the light all the way up on mine and if I look real close in just the right light I think I can see some kind of imperfection. I'm not very sure. I'm old and my eyes aren't that good. Probably someone younger could see them and would panic.
At reasonable brightness the reading areas of the screens are perfect on both of them.
Barry