The former bathroom designer found only a dome base ensured screen positioning of 360 degrees.
But the Air is more comfortable for viewing, with its keyboard base propping the screen up nicely.
Five icons populate the base of the screen, including the app drawer, while the homescreen itself has a more typical four-icon-wide berth.
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The x2's aluminum build is sturdy, but if you hold the device by the keyboard base, the screen wobbles a bit in its hinge.
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This quirk also extended to the use of the navigation buttons at the base of the screen, leading us to believe the phone hadn't registered our touch.
Now, about that little bulge at the base of the screen... just run your fingers beneath it to liberate a built-in, lighted disc tray "without so much as a whisper" ready for DVD or CD playback -- DivX, MP3, JPEG and Video CDs all supported.
The base station has an LCD screen, which displays how much watching time the wearer has in credit.
On the HP, Windows 8 proved so buggy at first that I couldn't even get back to the Start Screen home base for the system after opening apps and the computer froze up frequently.
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It's a hinge, not terribly dissimilar to that on HTC's ancient Tilt2, that lets you adjust the position of a screen in relation to a base.
The familiar desktop view has been pushed to the background to make room for a colorful, touchable, swipeable Start Screen, which acts as your home base.
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The machine has a 11.6 inch touch-screen display and when clicked into the base with its magnetically assisted latch, you have a full sized keyboard and a trackpad.
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B's wide subscription base has helped it to keep the rights to screen British football, because the more subscribers it had, the more money it could offer for them.
Hence, if celebrity Republicans seem outrageously reactionary, it's an indicator of where the GOP and its base have moved and what it looks for in its screen idols.
Successors to their line of thinking include Warren Buffett (whose Berkshire Hathaway missed my screen because it is not shrinking its share base) and the cagey folks running Leucadia National Corp. (which is losing money at the moment but has an extraordinary record of book value growth).
The HTC has a handsome, sturdier, aluminum body, dual stereo speakers, an excellent camera, better screen resolution than the new Samsung and twice the base memory for the same price.
With more fans watching TV shows with tablets and smartphones as a second screen, Starz has been able to engage its fan base with digital initiatives that have worked incredibly well, so far.
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From here, users can also fold the screen down to use it as a tablet while keeping the base connected for added ports and connectivity.
The analog VPA150 has an assortment of on-screen adjustments, navigable using the four control buttons on the monitor base.
As part of their ConnecTV partnership, Pearl will expand and coordinate the affiliate base of participating local broadcasters, integrate local content, deliver on-air, on-screen and on-line promotions and sell complementary second screen advertising that synchronizes with the broadcast.
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