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Originally Posted by Kent Walters
... A 18 inch by 24 inch piece of glass, removed from a picture frame, held between the thumb and fingers of one hand, at one corner (as Grimulkan describes holding his DR), will not noticeably flex or break; I just tried it. I’m sure that it is the combined weight of the DR, case, and any accessories that have caused these non-screen-contact breaks. I suspect that holding an uncased DR in the same way would not cause a screen break, but I won’t test it  --the problem would have been found in the first production prototypes. |
BTW Kent, I have almost never used the DR with the case or with any other accessory. Perhaps I wasn't careful enough or perhaps I was just plain unlucky. Still, you're probably right, given that only very few users seem to suffer from a broken screen.