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Old 09-18-2009, 04:32 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by eal View Post
while the site says 7" diagonal the original press release said

"The seven-inch wide, touch screen display provides for intuitive navigation and comfortable layout of content, including newspapers and magazines, whether you’re reading in portrait or landscape orientation. In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, making the experience very similar to that of a printed paperback book."

so one of these is wrong.
Perhaps not. In TV displays wide screen means wide aspect ratio. A 7" wide aspect ratio (16x9) screen would still measure the diagonal. And the picture does indeed look like a wide aspect ratio screen.

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