Xperia ZL delivers the same immersive entertainment experiences as Xperia Z but in a smaller form factor.
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"Reading is going to go completely online as we get a smaller form factor and the screens get good enough, " Gates said.
All the existing Kindle Fire tablet apps, in a smaller form factor (and with a focus on portrait mode) should be enough.
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At 11mm (0.43 inch), it's actually incrementally thicker than the Lumia 920, but with this smaller form factor you shouldn't have any issues with one-handed control.
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Essentially a network of tiny wires, it features a larger surface area than flat electrodes, giving it the leverage it needs to convert more electricity in a smaller form factor.
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In terms of products, the iWatch could very well be the answer to a smaller form factor, cheaper iPhone product that Wall Street is looking for Apple to deliver.
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"A smaller form factor is not only more attractive to many consumers, it will cost less to manufacture, ship and stock, " Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest, told the BBC.
Over the last fast years since Apple first introduced its market share-leading iPhone, there have been a number of rumors over a smaller form factor offering and as yet one has yet to emerge.
Naturally, Apple's pushing the smaller form factor as a boon for those who adore ingesting text on digital screens, further advancing its iBook and education initiative that took center stage at its January keynote in New York City.
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.
This is the higher-end of the two new HD DVD Toshiba models, and gets high marks for its improvements on the previous model, with faster loading times, 1080p support, a smaller form factor, and a much-improved chipset for upscaling standard-definition DVDs (the HD-A2 lacks 1080p and the improved upscaling chip).
That email hasn't led to a smaller form-factor iPad to date, but with rumors heating up around an upcoming " iPad Mini, " it's possible that Apple's compact tablet could one day arrive.
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But with competitors already bringing smaller tablet form factor products to market at more affordable prices, it seems likely that Apple will respond rather than sit on the sidelines as other companies look to beat it in a market that it helped create if not re-create.
In truth, no one really knows if Apple plans to introduced a smaller form-factor iPad (Well, I assume Tim Cook knows, actually.) But if they do decide to jump into the market with an iPad Mini to complete with the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Google Nexus 7 and other smaller tablets, you can safely bet that they will sell a ton of them.
Sony's NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras certainly boast the features to get any camera nerd excited -- interchangeable lenses in a form factor smaller than Micro Four Thirds but with an image sensor 50% bigger -- but the big question remaining is how they'll actually hold up in use.
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Folks accustomed to previous Nokia QWERTY phones in the form factor like the E62 will find the screen noticeably smaller, but with the same number of pixels and an incredibly pocketable form factor there's plenty to love about this new entry.
And while there are clear cinematic benefits to the U845W's form factor, the extra width makes everything on the screen feel smaller than usual.
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Some 40% smaller than the relatively new Micro-SIM standard, there has been a lot of debate around this new form factor.
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