The phrase
"black slab" refers to an object or surface that is black in color and has a flat shape, similar to a slab.
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It's a plain
black slab with a silver trim and it's all glossy plastic as far as the eye can see.
It's a
big black slab with a really nice screen, and despite its size, it's pretty slim and is a good fit in the hand.
In terms of form factor, it's difficult to find a smartphone that isn't a
solid black slab any more.
The physical device is a
bland black slab, with a too - small power button that's hard to press when the screen goes to sleep.
Sure, boredom with the
typical black slab is a first - world problem, but then again, isn't that what premium smartphones are for solving anyway?
It's one
black slab after another, with minor variations on the back panel as they opt for one kind of metallic finish or the other.
Adding black slab countertops and hardware guarantees that this period - style kitchen makes a strong style statement.
In terms of form factor, it's difficult to find a smartphone that isn't a
solid black slab any more.
The camera is one area that can help a smartphone differentiate itself from all the other
black slabs of glass out there.
This extraordinary building, a cuboid crunch of blocks around and enigmatic
black slab on a corner site, was Hadid's first triumph.
From the front, the Avid Plus looks like any
other black slab, with a thick bezel around the display and a protruding chin with capacitive buttons along the bottom.
First impressions of the Optimus One are rather good, despite the enthusiasm - sapping bland
black slab design.
Rather than just be a
plain black slab of glass sitting on a metal frame, Oppo adds a red gradient that almost makes it look like the black glass is blending into the red chassis.
Overall, it's a
simple black slab with a plasticky yet decent build, good grip, and a design that's going to help if you don't want to attract attention.
The first two specimens — the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live — are, for all intents and purposes, the
generic black slab of smartwatches.
It's also undeniably ugly - a cheap, plastic shell with a pearlescent sheen to the rear portion and a
nondescript black slab feel to the front.
The BlackBerry KEYone is not your typical
black slab smartphone and offers innovation in its hardware keyboard and software.
While it's a
traditional black slab, construction is solid with no creaks or misaligned areas and overall fit and finish are top notch.
A slim,
smooth black slab, the 4.6 - ounce Nexus measures 4.9 by 2.5 by.44 inches (HWD), with no visible buttons on its face and a rich 4 - inch, 800 - by - 480 Super AMOLED screen.
A
pitch black slab of gaming goodness, one that is powered by the already iconic Project Scorpio chip, Xbox One X ensures that the Xbox name is, yet again, forging forward in the console race.
Rey Akdogan does it with metal tiling as incomplete as that of Carl Andre, Olof Inger with trash bags converted into the painting of light and space, Gabriel Kuri with
black slabs crushing beer or soda cans like a Richard Serra that collapsed during an opening, Charlotte Posenenske with heat ducts as building blocks, Cameron Rowland with shelving brackets as line drawing, and Jean - Luc Moulène with rebar as an open cage.
Stylistically, the EVO is a stern,
squarish black slab while the Epic has softer curves with a sleek silver perimeter ribbon between its two black halves.
Physically, the phone is a doppelganger to HTC's Incredible phone from Verizon, a
flat black slab that's heavy — 6 ounces, yet not as heavy as it looks.
Sony's industrial design language is unmistakable in this
angular black slab, combining a glass front and back with shiny metallic buttons, and a brushed aluminum frame.
Many years ago we saw PDAs and smartphones with unique form factors, but for the last several years we have mainly
seen black slabs.
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slimming black slab superphone, Samsung's Captivate contains nearly all the modern cell Android 2.1 amenities: 7.2 Mbps 3G connectivity, WiFi, a speedy 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, 5 - megapuxel camera and HD (720p resolution, 30 fps) video recorder, Bluetooth 3.0, six - axis sensor for enhanced gaming, 16 GB internal memory, and SWYPE text input.
Lenovo's ThinkPad brand conjures images of clunky
old black slab laptops, but the X1 line is no such dinosaur.
As other smartphones are increasingly faceless,
monolithic black slabs, HTC sandwiches its screen between two bassy front - facing speakers.
Out of the two Android Wear watches currently on the market, the Samsung Gear Live is the one that stands out more, in that it's not just a
giant black slab like the LG G Watch (not that that's a bad thing).
Where the big, bulky and brash Amazon Echo Show took over any area you put it in, no thanks to its
brutalist black slab look, the Echo Spot is much more refined in its design.
It's hard for a phone maker to differentiate one
black slab from another through software, however, yet to not try is tantamount to asking for directions — you just don't do it.
The front of the phone is your
standard black slab, with capacitive buttons and a cutout for the earpiece.
The phones themselves, well, they mostly look like phones, albeit
big black slabs with a few distinctive features.
It's also a more distinguished - looking design, compared to the
plain black slabs of the Kindle Fire and Kobo Vox.
We have separate a hands - on post with the Dev Alpha B hardware, but what you should know is that it's a
simple black slab, a boxy, full - touch device that RIM said it had to make simply because it ran out of units of the original Dev Alpha.