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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The Kindle 8 is interesting, in that it's the only touch screen kindle that doesn't use a capacitative layer.
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That would make the contrast and brightness a little better compared to the same generation of eink with capacitive touch. Capacitive touch originally was two or three extra layers and the almost transparent tin pattern. Later eink has part of the capacitive touch integrated to the eink top layer, or to tha light pipe layer.
The light pipe layer for front lighting slightly reduces contrast due to increased reflections of ambient light, and slightly reduces sharpness as it has a micro texture to release the LED light fed in at the edge(s).
This is why a Pearl screen with no touch (or only IR touch) and no lighting can look almost as white as earlier front-lit Carta with a 3rd party touch layer. Though all Carta family have regal mode refresh, which is not on Pearl.
Kindle 8 is a Pearl screen, it has Bluetooh, but it's only really voice view. Pointless compared to TTS on a phone.
Pearl 800 × 600 px so as it's 6″ the screen density is 167 ppi. This kind of Kindle became the Basic series when the PW1 came out. The 4G flash is part used by the OS.
It would need to be very cheap. The 800 x 600 is better on a 5″ ereader (Sony PRS-350 or 2nd version of Kobo Mini). The PRS-350 is also IR touch, but with some buttons. Its battery is available and easily replaced (less than £20).