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-[* black] The display once again comes courtesy of LG. And just like last time, it's a mouthful: the [link|http://www.panelook.com/LD070WX6-SM01_LG%20Display_7.0_LCM_overview_19841.html|LD070WX6-SM01]. (Gesundheit!)
-[* black] Here's one for the repairability score: the front panel glass separates easily from the display.
- [* icon_note] This is an improvement over last year's slightly-less-repairable Kindle Fire HD, but not over this model's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbjru5CQIW4|true predecessor|new_window=true], the Kindle Fire. Both models' names have been changed to protect...something.
-[* red] The LCD is driven by a [http://www.novatek.com.tw/products/DisplayDriverIC.asp|Novatek] NT50169D LCD display driver.
- [* black] Novatek Microelectronics Corp. is a leading fabless chip design company specializing in the design, development and sales of a wide range of display driver ICs & SoC solutions.
- [* black] It's also (the name of) Russia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novatek|largest independent natural gas producer].
+[* black] The display [guide|10457|once again|stepid=38151] comes courtesy of LG. And just like last time, it's a mouthful: the [link|http://www.panelook.com/LD070WX6-SM01_LG%20Display_7.0_LCM_overview_19841.html|LD070WX6-SM01]. ''Gesundheit!''
+[* black] The front panel glass separates easily from the display, a return to the Kindle Fire construction.
+ [* black] Yet more evidence that, while the Kindle Fire HDs share the same name, the 2013 model descends from the Kindle Fire lineage. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbjru5CQIW4|Search your feelings, you know it to be true.|new_window=true]
+[* red] The LCD is piloted by a [http://www.novatek.com.tw/products/DisplayDriverIC.asp|Novatek] NT50169D LCD display driver.
+ [* icon_note] Novatek Microelectronics Corp. is a leading [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing|fabless|new_window=true] chip design company specializing in the design, development, and sales of a wide range of display driver ICs & SoC solutions.
+ [* icon_note] It also shares its name with Russia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novatek|largest independent natural gas producer].