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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Look here. No 10.3" glass screen exists.
And the light layer cannot be made from glass. |
That is what I said - the e-ink screen itself is flexible, not glass.
The question is what are the additional layers made from, on top of the e-ink screen.
Somebody here mentioned that it is made of PMMA.
If so, that means the top-most layer is PMMA - that is the light diffuser layer, or anti-glare layer. It is PMMA with tiny air bubbles in it.
But what layers are below it, and is there glass anywhere among them?
The next layer - the light guide layer is likely made of glass. Although it might be plastic. It is like a layer of microscopic fiber-optic cable cores. In fiber-optic cables, cores are made of glass, but they might be made of plastic with high refraction index too.
Below those layers we have the light scattering layer, and the capacitance layer.
Still, a thicker glass layer perhaps is added just below the anti-glare PMMA layer, perhaps to make the screen rigid. Even though fiber-optic cables are flexible, the correct and consistent interaction of the light guide layer with the light scattering layer might require them to be rigid.
I am just speculating here.
But if you google, for example, "10.3" flush glass screen" you see that Onyx Boox states on onyxboox.com: "10.3” Flush Glass-based Screen"
As to Alita, google also finds, among other things, a Goodereader.com review where it says about Alita: "A glass screen will also prevent you from scratching the display if you press hard on the stylus".
So it is likely the screens contain glass. It is difficult to tell just from looking at them because of the presence of the anti-glare layer.
I myself have Note, Note 2 and Mimas, and it is difficult to see a difference between Mimas and Note 2, although the screen of pure-plastic Note looks a bit different.