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| [* black] Here's where our disassembly efforts get gummed up. | |
| - | [* black] The display—rumored to be a [link|https://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/|Sharp Memory LCD]—seems firmly glued to the front half of the plastic enclosure. If you need to replace your display, you'll probably need a whole new plastic face—we were not confident we could separate the screen without destroying it. Probably not expensive, but not ideal. |
| + | [* black] The display—rumored to be a [link|https://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/aboutmemorylcd.html/|Sharp Memory LCD|new_window=true]—seems firmly glued to the front half of the plastic enclosure. If you need to replace your display, you'll probably need a whole new plastic face—we were not confident we could separate the screen without destroying it. Probably not expensive, but not ideal. |
| [* black] Meanwhile, the buttons and other various I/O live on this sprawling flexible printed circuit, which is glued to the midframe. We started to un-glue it before realizing this wasn't a good, or reversible, idea. | |
| [* black] Getting this far was pretty easy. Going farther would probably ruin our playful Playdate encounter. |