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Originally Posted by boswd
Too bad the mainstream media will kick it to the curb because it's not as thin as the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 It's a shame the media is hypnotized by a devices thickness.
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True dat. We've bred an entire generation of devices with anorexia/bulimia. I don't know when gadget news started taking cues from vogue, but by now, they really put their shoulder into it.
My Touch Pro2 was a surprisingly popular phone. Despite having an obsolete OS out of the gate and using tech that was already a generation old on launch, it still managed to rate as the second best smartphone in 2009, only behind the ultra-hyped iphone 3gs. Yet every review had to refer to it as a brick (multiple times) if said review wanted to be taken seriously.
You were right about this video reviewer, even on the thickness issue. She made a big deal out of thickness, but she also explained the tradeoff you were getting in clear detail. Not many reviews connecting the TP2's 5 line, nicely spaced, offset keyboard and satisfying key feedback/ tilting screen with its girth, and as a result, device makers backed far away from substantial keyboards and chased the thinnest possible form factors with shallow boards, 3 and 4 line with no depth or spacing. I think the droid 3 is the first android since the g1 to have 5 (really, 4.5) rows.