Re: [NTLK] Re - Display

From: Daniel Padilla (dproldan_at_telefonica.net)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 16:34:06 EST


> > So there are actually two panes of glass in the display? One for the
> > touch screen and one for the LCD?
>
> Yes. See my 1x0 display repair page at
>
> http://www.pda-soft.de/mp_1x0_display.html for info on how the
> displays of the earlier models are built. I'd be surprised if the
> 2x00 displays were, apart from the fact that you can replace the
> backlight, much different.
>

    You're right. And I keep wondering why the touch tablet stops working
when the glass underneath is broken. I would think that you still could use
it a bit to do a backup or something.

    These shots show how it's made:

http://dev.newtontalk.net/~dpadilla/touchscr.htm

Daniel

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