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Originally Posted by CyGuy
Hope that is just a prototype, the bezel around the screen is too large for my taste, I want the front to be almost all screen. The article also states it has a 6" screen, sure hope they plan on making a larger one too. Will the Tegra chip run Win7?
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This was my reaction to a lot of e-readers at first as well. Why have such large bezels when the technology is there to make it edge-to-edge? Then I began using my iphone to read e-books. Disregarding the fact that it's really smaller than ideal for that purpose, I've discovered that not having a large enough bezel is a major PITA when it comes to holding the darn thing. You either have to cup the entire device in your hand, stretch your fingers to hold it by the lateral edges, or have your fingers on the edges of the touchscreen and hope they don't register as touches. I've actually taken to holding it sideways so that I can use the top and bottom where there actually is some bezel as handholds.
After all, books do not have print all the way to the edges of the page, nor would you want them to. How would you hold them without obscuring text? Touchscreens just make the problem worse. Edge-to-edge may look sexy, but bezels definitely have their use.