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Originally Posted by chrisridd
Having a raised bezel would seem to me to require that the reader contained at least 3 structural pieces - the back, the bezel, and the screen.
A flush bezel like the Aura only uses 2 pieces.
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I'm not sure about the aura but most devices like that use a sheet of transparent material as a top layer to give a consistent texture. So you not only have at least as many pieces, you also have to come up with a mounting system for a top layer that doesn't show and potentially has tighter tolerances.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The only advantage of capacative touch over infra-red is that capacitive can accurately detect three or more concurrent touches, whereas infra-red can only accurately detect two. However that is not really a very useful feature for an ereader.
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No, infrared can definitely handle more than two touchpoints. There are plenty of larger infrared touchscreens that do ten point multitouch.
It may be that the power consumption increases more rapidly for supporting more touch points on infrared than it does on capacitive, or some other reason to make it prohibitive for mobile devices, but it's definitely not a fundamental limitation of the technology.