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Old 07-24-2016, 03:06 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by underscore View Post
The 'rumours' i heard from the German website to which i kept sending mails for a couple of months, is that e-ink is not producing those old 8 inches pearl screen so that Onyx can't produce new I86 so that the german store does not have to sell so that we customers can't have an ereader.
Banggood still has the i86ML for sale, as does Onyx-Boox Russia (though those could simply be old stock). Onyx's own TMall site doesn't have it listed.

I'm not altogether surprised if they've stopped making the the original i86ML screen (which is after all the old Pearl technology). I would however be surprised if they aren't replacing it with a new screen in that size range (doesn't one of the upcoming Kobos have a 7.8" screen?), as I think they need something between 6" and 9.7", and it would make more sense (even if rationalising screen sizes) to continue with an 8" rather than a 6.8" as the intermediary.
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