The display unit is ultra thin, a feat achieved by some serious fusing. The digitizer is applied directly to the glass and fused in turn to the LCD.

The downside: Shattering the glass means losing all touchscreen capabilities. A drop from ear-height on concrete spells death.

The glass is not the lauded Gorilla Glass, but a new kind of hardened display.

The display gets three cables which correspond to, as far as we can judge, the LCD, digitizer, and backlight.

The digitizer cable is home to the Synaptics Clearpad 3203 Capacitive Touchscreen Controller to manage all the snazzy Z10 gestures.