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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If Amazon had made their own plastic backed screen, they'd be using it for ALL the Kindles. Also, this would be plastered all over the net and it's not. I think it
s still a Carta glass backed screen.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
In this instance, I agree with you. I'm sure that it the screen itself had a plastic substrate, they'd be making a big deal of it (lighter! shatterproof!)
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I'm only going by what that one article, in
PC Magazine, claimed. They specifically compared this feature to Mobius.
("Amazon is using a plastic-backed 300ppi E Ink display, but it isn't E Ink Mobius; it's the company's own design.") Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but it
is a direct and specific claim.
EDIT: DuckieTigger wrote to the article's writer for confirmation. I admit, it is hard to believe that Amazon isn't making a bigger deal out of this — unless most tech writer's involved just missed the importance of the announcement.