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Originally Posted by Graham
All the more reason for at least one manufacturer to go 4:3. Eating into Apple's share is hard. Staking a place in the Android arena is a must. Differentiating itself from the Android pack seems to have worked for the Asus Transformer, and 4:3 could do the trick for someone else.
Graham
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4:3 is only inportant for PDFs. For any other ebook format, 16:10 is just fine. All the first generation e-ink 6" screen were all 16:10. I didn't hear any complaints other than PDFs.
I think you'll get more market differentiation with SD access than by 4:3.
The problem with
any all-in-one device is they are compromises due to conflicting application needs. Small to fit in a pocket, but big to see video. Multitouch to eliminate punching buttons, but lousy ability to type, because there's no keyboard. LCDs for color images, but it eats batteries like candy. And on and on...
You can only optimise for one application, every other application will be sub optimal. You differentiate by what application you want to optimise on. Toshiba is Video optimised. Nothing wrong with that.
Whether that is what the largest part of the marketplace wants is another question. Nobody has made available in the wild a from-the-ground-up video optimised table. (PMP's converted to pseudo tablets, yes, but not from the ground up tablet).
Currently, it's take what's available and live with it. This will be changing with a vengence over the next year or two...