Dell deserves credit for a clever flip screen design in the XPS 12.
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While other companies have resorted to slider mechanisms, or hinges that require bending or twisting the whole lid, Dell has created a flip screen.
WSJ: Review of Dell XPS 12: Dell Laptop Does Flips to Try to Be a Thick Tablet
When opened, you can flip the screen around and turn it into a tablet.
When you flip the screen from one position to the other, it snaps back into the aluminum frame of the lid firmly and reassuringly.
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This convenient mounting system allows for easy positioning of the device either on the windshield or the dash and the device orients the display with a useful flip-screen feature.
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On the software side, meanwhile, HP's pre-installing a few board games like EA Monopoly, and there's a physical key you can use to flip the screen orientation when it's another player's turn.
Similar to the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga line, too, you can flip the screen all the way back so that it faces away from the keyboard, a feature that seems especially well-suited for giving presentations.
Flip on the screen and the Internet is already there, waiting patiently for us.
On the other side, sports bars may hesitate to flip the big screen over to a yoga final.
This version offers a lot more freedom than the HTC creation however, seemingly allowing the screen to flip 180-degrees on the arm.
Fairly similar to the Coolpix 8800, the new eight megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8400 has a wide angle, 3.5x optical zoom lens and a 1.8-inch flip-out LCD screen.
Next up is the Nikon Coolpix 8800, an eight megapixel camera with a 10x optical zoom lens and a 1.8-inch flip-out LCD screen that's the first consumer camera from them that uses their Vibration Reduction anti-shake system.
These right-hand panels, which you can flip through, resemble the screen of a smartphone or tablet, with apps represented by icons.
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Indeed, the viewing angles are better than what we saw on the 7-incher, but you're still going to suffer delays even when you flip the tablet to change screen orientations.
They include the widely praised Aspire R7, which features a hinge-attached pad that holds up the touchscreen and allows users to pull the screen closer or flip it over the keyboard, transforming it into a tablet.
As a vehicle progresses on its route, the SmartGPS accesses the cloud-based Smart Ecosystem to deliver a rich variety of location-relevant information "squares" that are displayed on the SmartGPS screen and graphically flip between service establishments in the vicinity.
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We did have to be somewhat mindful when reading an e-book, for example, as any accidental encroachment of the thumb onto the edge of the screen can trigger a page flip.
U.S. operators have created little incentive for manufacturers to innovate because they dictate every specification of the phones they sell from how they flip open to what appears on the home screen.
The good news here is that the system actually displays a far more intuitive menu layout on the screen than what's available on your dumbphone, enabling users to flip through schedules, photos, videos and playlists with ease.
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If you're looking at something Flip ahead understands, you'll see a forward arrow on the right side of the screen.
The innovative flip hinge design can easily transition from laptop to tablet to laptop and features a Full HD screen that provides 97 percent more pixels than a standard HD display.
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