For a while now I've wondered whether the original Tolino Shine used a Pearl or E-Carta screen because there were conflicting reports on the Internet.
For example, the German Wiki on the Tolino Shine shows it using a Pearl 1024×758 screen, but MyTolino shows it using an E-Carta 1024×758 screen.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolino_Shine
https://mytolino.com/tolino-shine/te...pecifications/
(Looks like the above link has been killed by Tolino. For now it's cached by Google at
https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=us
I've also a couple images for the specs.
Someone was selling these on eBay and was down to one left (and they were dropping the price 3% each week for months, so it was down to about $14 plus postage). But I didn't want another Pearl screen (the Tolino Page has a low resolution E-Carta screen).
Then I ran into this German blog entry on the Shine ...
http://www.selfpublisherbibel.de/tol...-im-vergleich/
... which compares the "original" Tolino Shine with one that came out a year, or so, later that he calls the Shine 1.5.
The main point is that the screens changed (I'm guessing, from Pearl to E-Carta) and the reason I suspect this is the case is because when comparing the software for the "old" Shine and the "new" Shine we find that ... (from Google translate) ...
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The software itself differs in exactly one point: The screen refreshment can be on every 6th page (default, up to every 8th page, old) or every 60th page (default, up to every 100th page or even "never" , new). Behind this is the new eInk shelf technology, which is supposed to prevent ghosting (ie left over from earlier pages) even better than before. By software update, she obviously can not be introduced to the old Tolino.
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In other words, it's now using E-Carta settings.
Supposedly the "demarcation" between the two models of the Shine comes when the Butterfly was added to logo on the back. But some of the comments at the end of the blog entry say that's not the case, that they got "butterfly" versions that still used the old screen.
At any rate, the one I bought has the Butterfly in the logo. Hopefully it's the E-Carta version — as this is basically the same step between the Paperwhite 1 and Paperwhite 2.
I'll let you know (one way or the other) when it gets here next Friday (current expected delivery date).