How to get a good Voyage/Paperwhite the first time?

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by rcentros

Not really. There was one good answer, buy from a local retailer and test the screen in the parking lot -- keep exchanging them until you get a good one. Unfortunately, the OP may not have a local dealer.

There's also the issue of devices being sealed. A lady on another forum bought one from Argos, it had dead pixels so she travelled to a second store (each store tends to only have one Voyage as they spread then between stores) and asked them to open it up before she bought it, they did so although they were not happy. It also had dead pixels so she refused to buy it. Apparently they were a bit put out!

[x9prototype]

Are there any images out there of a defective unit vs a good one? I just moved to a Voyage and my screen seems fine. I didn't notice anything wrong. Maybe I just got lucky?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by x9prototype

Are there any images out there of a defective unit vs a good one? I just moved to a Voyage and my screen seems fine. I didn't notice anything wrong. Maybe I just got lucky?

Lots and lots of pictures in the "Kindle Voyage - First Impressions" thread here. You'll see there that screen pictures that some people regard as faulty, others can see absolutely nothing wrong with. There's a huge variation in individual perception in these matters.

[x9prototype]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Lots and lots of pictures in the "Kindle Voyage - First Impressions" thread here. You'll see there that screen pictures that some people regard as faulty, others can see absolutely nothing wrong with. There's a huge variation in individual perception in these matters.

Thanks for the link. I seemed to luck out as I don't notice any gradient with my screen!

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by x9prototype

Thanks for the link. I seemed to luck out as I don't notice any gradient with my screen!

It's there: if you want to see it, take a photograph of your screen, then copy a small section of the top of the screen in your photograph, and paste it at the bottom; you'll see when the two are alongside each other that the top is a little darker than the bottom, simply because the bottom is where the lights are.

Some screens appear to have a greater variation than others, and some people are more sensitive to the effect than others. The important thing is that you're happy with it.

[x9prototype]

Ahhh. I do see it now after looking at pictures of my Voyage. Thankfully I don't notice it at all when using it.

http://imgur.com/Ff6M6q2

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by x9prototype

Ahhh. I do see it now after looking at pictures of my Voyage. Thankfully I don't notice it at all when using it.

http://imgur.com/Ff6M6q2

Your screen looks absolutely fine to me, too, but there will doubtless be people who would find it unacceptable, hence my suggestion that if this type of lighting system doesn't work for you, get something else. No point in torturing yourself if it's not to your taste.

BTW, my Kobo H2O has exactly the same type of top-to-bottom lighting variation: Amazon aren't alone in lighting screens this way. In the thread I gave you the link to earlier, you'll see (somewhere) a side-by-side comparison of my Kindle Voyage and Kobo H2O.

[tomsem]

I just saw Interstellar. Based on that, I would say one would only need to find a way to send yourself a message from the future giving the precise coordinates of a Voyage that is actually good. For that, you just need to find a wormhole, descend into the gravity well of a black hole (but not too far), then enter a fifth dimensional manifold where you can tap out the message in 'binary' (but not Morse), and hope that yourself-in-the-past has a pen and paper to take dictation before the manifold collapses and you are inevitably cast adrift in the vastness of space.

As a bonus, you will have barely aged, and when you return you will be able to avail yourself of most technically advanced reading technology, the Kindle Endurance, with a battery life of several millennia and a full page refresh only every 1bn pages, with self-illuminated nanopixels capable of generating any visible light frequency and the pixels forming each word vibrate, sounding out the word as your eye saccades it. But you will again want to make sure you are getting a good one the first time by employing the wormhole hack.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by x9prototype

Ahhh. I do see it now after looking at pictures of my Voyage. Thankfully I don't notice it at all when using it.

http://imgur.com/Ff6M6q2

I do see the gradient in your picture but like mine its very gradual and only noticable if you look for it. I tend only to see it with the light higher than 16 and even then its not an issue for me.

[Canuck_in_Japan]

Originally Posted by rcentros

Not really. There was one good answer, buy from a local retailer and test the screen in the parking lot -- keep exchanging them until you get a good one. Unfortunately, the OP may not have a local dealer.

Technically that doesn't improve your chances of getting a good one the first time. It just makes it a lot more convenient to return it.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan

Technically that doesn't improve your chances of getting a good one the first time. It just makes it a lot more convenient to return it.

Please stop being smugly reasonable. It offends me.

[sian]

just got a kindle pw but not sure which version how can i tell

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by sian

just got a kindle pw but not sure which version how can i tell

If it says "Kindle" on the back it's a PW1; if it says "Amazon" it's a PW2.

[Josieb1]

Once you get the PW look in setting under device info and the serial number will be shown. The first four digits will match something on the wiki link I gave you before. If you can't find the link just google "what Kindle do I have'" and the wiki will be one of the first results.

[stangri]

Originally Posted by sian

just got a kindle pw but not sure which version how can i tell

You can pray that the answer comes to you. Apparently it's a valid advice.