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Old 08-19-2009, 09:19 AM   #13
Jack Tingle
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Originally Posted by acidzebra View Post
It does look like a broken screen substrate, and I know some people have reported similar spontaneous screen breaks (on different ebook devides) where they swear they did nothing to cause it, I remain skeptical of such claims.
Ah, the PocketPC effect. Such memories. "Good God, sir, we didn't mean you should keep it in your _pocket_!"

After two broken HP iPAQ 1930 series PPC's I switched from HP's stiff sleeve to Rhinoskin aluminum cases. I also suspect HP (or HTC) started paying a lot more attention to residual mfg stresses. I still have my last HP1945, and it still works for many purposes. The sw is obsolete, and some of the buttons are nubs, but the screen is fine. My Dell X51, ditto, although the digitizer on it is too spiky to use much.

Moral: Armored cases. Not stiff plastic ... armored.

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