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Originally Posted by Sylver
OK, I am confused, I think everybody is talking about how much improvement on screen contrast is the new DX which is the first device on the next generation of e-ink screen called Pearl. Are you saying your K2I already has a Pearl screen? I understand a Vizplex screen (such as on the K2, Sony PRS 300 or the nook) would still be a lot better than first generation of e-ink, but are you sure your K2I already has Pearl? I will just run to local target to buy one immediately if it already is Pearl, but I doubt.
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Better quality control in the later batches.
I was one of the luckier ones to get a K2 almost as strong in contrast as the K1 (but close-up not so much, with skinny grayer fonts).
I've seen a year of pictures of K2s that some got and they were shown side by side with other K2s using no flash and displaying no difference in shadows or in focus on the keys and buttons of both, and there was a HUGE variance in screen contrast and font darkness.
Some Kindle 2s looked as if the ink had faded over 2 years. It was sort of shocking. I have some older articles that point to various pictures, when anyone searches under "screen contrast" on my blog. And, they faded in direct sunlight, sometimes to nothingness, so they were defective. Some kept them because they were fine indoors.
Families who ordered 2 or 3 Kindle 2's sometimes saw variances so wide that they returned one as unacceptable. That was in a long thread that was a plea to Amazon to make the fonts darker (as they were in Kindle 1. No one was unhappy with the Kindle 1 fonts).
They later concluded there were a couple of bad batches. Amazon replaced any that were problematic and did so without fuss.