Merrill didn't think the «
big glass slab» replaces physical devices, but instead that our devices will get more tactile and design connectivity in for specific uses.
If you were asked to describe what a «smartphone» looked like, you'd come to the conclusion of this device —
a big glass slab on the front simply accented with a logo, front - facing camera and speaker grille, surrounded by a faux - metal plastic trim around the sides and a lightly textured black plastic piece on the backside.
Not exact matches
It's hard sometimes when you're eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) to understand how someone could enjoy a meal without a
big juicy
slab of meat or a cold
glass of milk.
They're generally pretty bad, and it's hard to take good pictures while holding a
big slab of plastic and
glass, anyway.
And there, it excels, provided you have
big pockets, don't often make calls without a headset, and aren't worried about looking a bit strange holding a large
slab of
glass and plastic to the side of your head.
The phone looks really good when you look at it from the front — a
big slab of black Gorilla
Glass 4 with a subtle gold rim surrounding it.
From head on, with the screen off, all you see is the
big — and I mean
big —
glass slab of a screen surrounded by the silvery ring of the magnesium chassis.
And I am going to hark back to design — it is a
big bland
glass slab.
The front of the Ultra is dominated by a
big slab of
glass that nicely rolls off the edge to the sides, broken by a small lip at the bottom and a speaker grille at the top.
I also had to remind myself that we've had
big 6 - inch contiguous
slabs of
glass on our smartphones for many years now — it's just that in the past they used to cover chunky black frames surrounding the display, whereas with LG and Samsung's new phones, the stuff under the
glass is almost all display.