For us, it's still preferable to placing the buttons along the top edge-- especially on a bigger-screened device like the Eluga.
The entire cover can be pried off by pressing down on the camera unit and pulling at the top edge of the covering.
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Also, given that this has a laptop-grade Core i5 processor inside, it requires some serious vents, which you'll find along the top edge.
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While convenient in many cases, it caused problems if you wanted to place the top edge of one label against the bottom edge of another.
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Betsy Walsh let me leaf through a lesser-known copy, rebound in morocco leather sometime in the 19th century, the top edge of the pages gilded.
In fact, to unsheathe the tablet we needed to press a little button along the top edge which activates an electrical catch that connects the two parts.
On the top edge are waterproof covers for both the micro-USB port and micro-SIM card, while the headphone socket, located between the two, is left open to the elements.
Speaking of settings, Samsung is proud of an expanded panel of one-touch settings icons you can get to by pulling down the Android notification window from the top edge of the screen.
The only downside there is that because the charging port sits on the top edge of the keyboard, the cord curls up against the propped up tablet, partially obstructing your view of the screen.
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There wasn't much else of note aesthetically -- the charging and headphone ports are along the top edge, and on the back lives a fairly feeble VGA camera next to some breathing holes for the speaker.
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Swiping from side to side lets you transition between verticals -- it becomes long-winded quickly, unfortunately -- while swiping down from the top edge gives you even more sub-sections to choose from, like photos and video.
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Along the top edge, you'll find the e-ink display and a two-way power switch -- slide it to the left and Ruby behaves like a secure hotspot, slide it to the right and it's a public access point.
The tea break did for the partnership, though, Panesar tempting Bell into an ill-advised pull three balls into the evening session and Broad safely pouching the top edge at deep backward square to end the pair's 99-run stand.
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For his twelfth birthday, Sandy had gotten a large, flat black portfolio made of hard cardboard that folded along a sewn seam and was secured at the top edge with two attached lengths of ribbon that he tied in a bow in order to fasten the leaves.
The match finished with a cheeky solo effort by Juninho, who again capitalised on loose man-marking by the Manchester defence to squeeze off a shot from the top left edge of the area that beat Bosnich at the right post.
Shakib was the catcher when Vandort mis-timed a pull-shot off Shahadat Hossain, and three overs after taking the top-edge, he added another wicket to his collection as he breached captain Mahela Jayawardene's defences.
Lomana LuaLua then curled one into the top corner from the edge of the box seven minutes later.
It owed much to the hard work of Constable, who beat York keeper Michael Ingham to a long ball over the top, lofting it back into the middle where Jack Midson nodded down to Green who dispatched a sweet left-foot half-volley into the top corner from the edge of the box.
You can scroll up and down through those icons, which is now accompanied by a cute 3D animation where the items slide over the top and bottom edge, like wrapping a piece of paper around the side of a table.
As we mentioned previously, the "active flip" release button is located in the middle of the right side and there's a volume slider on the left edge near the top of the device.
After an embarrassing delay when Venus failed to appear at the precisely predicted time at the top-left hand edge of the Sun, someone noticed that Venus had in fact appeared at the bottom right-hand edge, resulting in a hasty re-adjustment of the camera.
The power button is along that tapered top edge, alongside the headphone socket, while charging and data transfer is handled by the micro-USB port along the bottom.
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Munster struck an early blow with the outstanding O'Connell diving over the top of a ruck on the edge of the Sale line to score after brilliant work by Keith Earls and Ronan O'Gara.
Mowbray also believes the experience gained from his side's season in the top flight will give West Brom the edge over many of their rivals in the second tier.
Numbers 9 and 0 are reserved for two long, silver shoulder buttons on either end of the device's top edge.
From the top of Devil Island, off the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, the watery sun reflects off the vast tabular icebergs drifting around the Weddell Sea.
The home side needed something special after the break and barely a minute into the half they hit back when Collins raced on to Josh Wright's ball over the top and lashed into the net from the edge of the area.
The scents are applied to the top of a cylindrical cage set on the edge of cropland.
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Sitting on the warm sandstone at the top of Ubirr rock and peering over the edge to palm trees far below, I am dizzyingly aware that the scene before me has remained unchanged since prehistory.
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