The TV's bezels have been significantly reduced to provide a greater sense of immersion.
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Additionally, Acer went with an LG Shuriken panel for some narrower bezels.
As it happens, we appreciate its keyboard, graphics performance and narrow bezels, too.
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As it happens, it's one of those 14-inch displays crammed into a 13-inch chassis, so the bezels should be pretty narrow.
TVs will need super-strong glass to slim down the bezels, he said.
The company's new plasma TV bezels slimmed down from 1 inch last year to about three-quarters of an inch this year, he said.
The side bezels are very much visible, if thankfully narrow (the iPhone 5 has a similarly waifish framing to its display as well).
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The ultra-thin bezels of the M-Series virtually vanish next to the near edge-to-edge glass screen for a signature look that updates any room's appearance.
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The company also anticipates bezels shrinking in the future, and so is working on an interaction technology that'll let users tile tablets in the future.
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Due to begin manufacturing within the next two or three months, the Lyuba Max and Lyuba Fun aim to make bezels a thing of the past.
Thankfully, much of that front face is dominated by the 8-inch screen -- the surrounding bezels are generous enough to accommodate thumbs without hampering the tablet's overall flair.
The plastic bezels also reduce the incidence of fingerprint art.
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The company's also quick to point out that its product's bezels are just a built-in necessity -- they give you a place to stick those thumbs when you're reading.
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The radio features authentic push button styling, and with RetroSound's wide assortment of mounting bezels, faceplates and knobs the Model Two closely mimics the look of the original factory radio.
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Not only that, but he said that he would frequently use his watch to perform some of the calculations slide rule bezels were designed for when he was a Navy pilot.
There are no buttons along the device's bezels, which is a bit of a shame: as with Kobo's other devices, we can't help but bemoan the lack of physical page turn buttons.
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Its minimalist high-gloss black finish contrasts with the unit's aluminum trim, and complements the same design qualities found on many high-end flat-panel displays that feature black lacquered finishes set off by silver bezels.
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Retro Sound promises the rig mounts into "virtually any classic vehicle, " and even carries a bevy of bezels, faceplates and knobs to make sure it the piece of tech mimics an original factory radio.
The UltraWide monitor, on the other hand, can connect the monitor to two external devices via Dual Link-up, providing consistent color across the entire screen, eliminating the bezels that typically divide the view in dual-monitor set-ups.
Perhaps the most important spec here is that the screen is an LG Shuriken panel, which allowed Gateway to cram a 14-inch panel into a chassis normally reserved for 13-inch systems (translation: you'll enjoy some seriously narrow bezels).
Although it technically has a larger display than its 4.8-inch predecessor, the 5-inch GS4 is actually narrower (69.8mm wide, versus 70.6mm on the GS3) because it only adds vertical screen space and has skinnier bezels on each side.
To preserve the iPad's aspect ratio at a relatively large screen size meant Apple had to trim the side bezels, making the appearance a bit more iPhone-like than iPad-like and, at best, a snug fit for smaller hands.
Rounding out the bunch are the 46-inch KDL-46V2500 and 40-inch KDL-40V2500, which also give you 1, 920 x 1, 080 pixels, but no digital tuner, one less HDMI input, and no option for interchangeable, multi-colored bezels as with their XBR2 counterparts.
And anyone who has ever seen a scifi movie knows that tactile keyboards and display bezels have no role to play in our computing future anyway, so we might as well get things started now -- or in the second half of 2010 according to DigiTimes' sources.
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The company's managed to add the big bezels to the proceedings without detracting too much from the overall look of the device -- if anything, it offers up a distinction (though, of course, not so pronounced as that of its big brother) from a slew of lookalike slates.
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Compared to a similar case made for the two latest generations of the bigger iPad, this case again suggests a slimmer and narrower iPad is in the works, which would mean that this mysterious tablet is likely to have the same screen size but thinner left and right-side bezels -- just like the iPad mini.
This will be the gesture most familiar to PlayBook users, and is one of the few that survived. (Swiping from the left or right bezels to switch apps, for example, isn't possible here.) Up to eight apps can be kept running in the background on this screen and bringing one back to life just requires a tap.
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