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Originally Posted by rantanplan
Fun fact: Modern screens are made of softer glass, so they don't break as easily as older screens. They are by all means more flexible than screens in the past. The downside is that modern screens scratch far easier than older screens.
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But with phones you can often still use them even if the screen is cracked. With a cracked substrate, the ereader is dead. And as pointed out elsewhere, screens are not the same as substrates.
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Originally Posted by rantanplan
I have yet to throw marbles at my devices or have it fall screen first on an obstacle but I'd assume that this would also break a Möbius screen. I just use a normal case for my devices, never used a screen protector and never had any issues with my devices. I know your mileage may vary but broken screens really don't seem to be a common issue.
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The Mobius uses a plastic substrate, it is very very hard to break (it has another failure point from what I've seen but that one doesn't render it unusable, just makes it like those TVs that have a line running down it iirc).
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Originally Posted by John F
What do you consider modern? And when you say screen, you are not refering to substrate?
I don't recall a single post on MR about a broken substrate on a Forma, even though it is a larger device that seems to have much weaker structural support?
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Exactly, the two are not the same and my Forma has suffered so much that if it had a glass substrate it would have been dead many times over but it's still working fine. Plus if they were using a glass substrate like the new glass from the screens on the foldable phones or even the newest gorilla glass, they'd advertise it. But since the screens are made by eInk, I'm assuming it's the same substrate for all of them and nothing too advanced (though the "making of" video for the Elipsa does show it is FLEXIBLE but that could be partially due to size).