I've been using an HP iPAQ 910c as my cell phone/PDA and am really impressed with it. Tonight I was walking up the stairs and dropped it. It fell like 5 feet and then bounced a few times. It wasn't in its case
So, of course, the screen is cracked. The touchscreen kind of works, but not really. The image displays just fine though.
Here's what she looks like now. Click for larger image:
What do I do now? A cracked screen isn't covered under warranty (it's my own dumb fault anyway) and HP wants $300 to replace it. I was thinking of getting a new LCD from eBay like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220341024223
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
In the above auction, the seller describes the difference between a digitzer and LCD. Is this right? Do I need a new digitizer or LCD? I think it's just the digitizer since the screen itself looks just fine.
LCD and touch screen/digitizer differences
The LCD is the inner part that show picture, it normally includes the touch sceen/digitizer, which is glass or plastic upper part of the LCD, and touched by your PDA pen.
So if your PDA can't show picture, you need to buy the LCD(which includes the touch screen/digitizer). If your PDA can't be touched by your PDA pen, but can show picture well, then you only need to buy one touch screen/digitizer which price is much cheaper than the LCD.