I found a post from when the Kindle Paperwhite 8th Gen came out that had the following description:
“''The 8th Generation Kindle has a six inch e-Ink Pearl display with a resolution of 800 X 600 and 167 PPI. It does not have a capacitive touchscreen, instead it employs Infrared Touch technology by Neonode.'' “
Then in doing a search of Neonode, I found a description along with the following picture:
[image|2144932]
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So this says it all. The missing component is either an LED, but not to provide light to the screen but an integral component of the touchscreen, or it could be a light detector, and apparently if one component drops off, the entire touchscreen system goes down.
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So this says it all. The missing component is either an LED, but not to provide light to the screen but an integral component of the touchscreen, or it could be a light detector, and apparently if one component drops off, the entire touchscreen system goes down. Neonode appears to be an interesting technology that can turn ''any'' surface into a touchscreen.
I found a post from when the Kindle Paperwhite 8th Gen came out that had the following description:
“''The 8th Generation Kindle has a six inch e-Ink Pearl display with a resolution of 800 X 600 and 167 PPI. It does not have a capacitive touchscreen, instead it employs Infrared Touch technology by Neonode.'' “
Then in doing a search of Neonode, I found a description along with the following picture:
[image|2144932]
So this says it all. The missing component is either an LED, but not to provide light to the screen but an integral component of the touchscreen, or it could be a light detector, and apparently if one component drops off, the entire touchscreen system goes down.