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Old 04-19-2010, 06:46 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Jadon View Post
I don't see 16:9 as inherently ill-suited to reading. Legal-size paper has a 1.65 ratio, after all, solidly between 1.33 and 1.77. Though 14:9 would cut the difference evenly. Size and weight matter, yes, but ratio is pretty flexible. Very high ratios just mean text is better presented in a two-page layout, or even as several columns, when viewed landscape mode.
It matters when you have a lot of A4 material you want to read.

And it matters for apps--if you want apps to work in both portrait and landscape ration like they do on the ipad, that's near impossible for many things with a 16:9 ratio as it's just too narrow in portrait for things designed for landscape and vice versa--compared to a 4:3 ratio.

In any case, both have their pros and cons. I personally won't consider a wide screen tablet. My ideal is a 8.5" x 11" screen personally.
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