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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Here is the device I had hoped we would see from B&N:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...e493618f46bd5&
You can see a much larger LCD panel which offers far more functionality than a tiny 1" strip that is all of 3.5" (not sure if that is the diagonal measurement or the actual width...but that is all B&N has on their site about the Nook. |
Oh,my goodness! Absolutely not!!
That device is ugly as hell!
But take that device, and instead of the large LCD on the bottom, use a small one like todays, and with the remaining screen space, use that to extend the E-ink!
I think we all will benefit from larger screen size.
In fact,
I wonder why noone thought of making a small white frame around the e-ink displays, so that you won't need to waste precious e-ink screen size to a border; so you could display text from the left to the right of the screen while still having a white border.
But apart from that I think people want to see more of actual page of a book on their screens, rather than enlarge a part of a screen that's for navigation only!
The bottom screen for navigation only replaces the buttons on other devices.
I don't think there's a need for enlarging that, or we'll end up with a kindle, where half the device is screen, and half the device is keyboard!
The idea here is kind of similar to the EEE Keyboard (like here:
http://gizmodo.com/5124985/eee-keybo...ome-theater-pc ),where the screen is not used as an actual screen but rather a help for navigation.