But when the iPad is in portrait mode, text takes center stage, with smaller representations of each image appearing in the margins.
The smaller form factor makes the Nexus 7 ideal for reading books, and magazines are a joy to read here as well, thanks in part to a "text view" mode that pulls the text from an article out of its magazine layout and into a more easily consumable e-book-style view.
Skitch is bundling a plain text notation mode just for that, too.
The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.
The camera tilts and zooms, and has a zoom mode high resolution enough for reading text.
The Hand-writing mode is a sensory function allowing text messaging from hand writing.
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In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, offering an experience similar to that of a printed paperback book, says the company.
Text messaging on cellphones, a popular mode of interaction in emerging markets and especially India, is the route to tap into that vast market of hundreds of millions, he says.
Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software.
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Rotating between landscape and portrait mode is accompanied by a red underline of some of the text so that you don't lose your place while the content reformats itself.
Now, you can lock the orientation sensor and pretty much never encounter this issue again (we can't ever really imagine needing to read a text-based book with adjustable font sizes in landscape mode, after all), but it seemed worth mentioning given it goes unchanged since the previous version.
In fact, we've found it hampers our workflow when attempting to compose an email or a simple text in Google Voice -- something the keyboard's Swype-like input mode handles with ease.
We already provide translation for Web pages on the fly as you browse in Chrome, text in mobile photos, YouTube video captions, and speech-to-speech 'conversation mode' on smartphones.
The ZPen also has no mouse mode and the software lacks a few features of the IOGEAR product, most important among these are searching for text in a note (promised as a free download coming soon), and another being the ability to quickly copy pieces of a note to the Clipboard.
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