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My vdx is dust (sand rather, as it was the glass that shattered). So I'm using the wife's prism until we get out tax refund back. I want a device that's visible outside and is quite rugged. I've dropped my wife's prism a couple of times already and it's pulled through beautifully. I'm pretty sure it's because it doesn't use glass (which the deluxe and solo do). I was wondering if the plat uses glass, or whatever material the prism does.

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I would think that glass wouldn't scratch as easy.

I would take the glass and buy a leash for the Visor so you wont drop it anymore!

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
My vdx is dust (sand rather, as it was the glass that shattered). So I'm using the wife's prism until we get out tax refund back. I want a device that's visible outside and is quite rugged. I've dropped my wife's prism a couple of times already and it's pulled through beautifully. I'm pretty sure it's because it doesn't use glass (which the deluxe and solo do). I was wondering if the plat uses glass, or whatever material the prism does.

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Originally posted by Vertigo


The Prism uses glass.

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Take the Prism -- or Color IIIc, for that matter -- and hold it up to your eye so you can barely see the surface; hold it and look across the surface as if you were looking across a lake. Then gently lower the point of the stylus to the screen. It flexes at the point like a plastic shield. There may be glass underneath, but that surface material is not glass, it's a pliable material of some sort.

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Originally posted by sanchan
Take the Prism -- or Color IIIc, for that matter -- and hold it up to your eye so you can barely see the surface; hold it and look across the surface as if you were looking across a lake. Then gently lower the point of the stylus to the screen. It flexes at the point like a plastic shield. There may be glass underneath, but that surface material is not glass, it's a pliable material of some sort.

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Originally posted by dick-richardson

Are you sure? They must've "ruggedized" the prism some other way, then.

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Originally posted by Vertigo


I'm positive. I took my Prism apart a couple weeks ago, and there is a 1mm thick glass plate covering the whole screen. It has that greenish tint at an angle.

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Vert: When you did that, does the pliable material separate or is it integrated somehow? Just wondering if anything did happen to the Prism screen, like a scratch or whatever, how easy it'd be just to replace that pliabl;e material, instead of the whole glass, plastic combo. Course, as Dick says, if there is a small amount of fluid, guess plastic screen material wouldn't be easily removed and replaced, would it...
BTW they way Dick, I was STILL looking for those bills in my Prism before it (probably) met its demise. (Read the Darwin thread.) Man! Lost a Prism AND all that money!

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Originally posted by sanchan
..BTW they way Dick, I was STILL looking for those bills in my Prism before it (probably) met its demise. (Read the Darwin thread.) Man! Lost a Prism AND all that money!

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Originally posted by sanchan
Vert: When you did that, does the pliable material separate or is it integrated somehow? Just wondering if anything did happen to the Prism screen, like a scratch or whatever, how easy it'd be just to replace that pliabl;e material, instead of the whole glass, plastic combo. Course, as Dick says, if there is a small amount of fluid, guess plastic screen material wouldn't be easily removed and replaced, would it...
BTW they way Dick, I was STILL looking for those bills in my Prism before it (probably) met its demise. (Read the Darwin thread.) Man! Lost a Prism AND all that money!

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It's somehow integrated. I can't remember that much detail now. I would have to take it apart again.