Not exact matches
Along the
top edge of the home
screen are shortcuts to Games, Apps, Books, Music, Videos, Periodicals, Audiobooks, the Silk browser, Photos and Documents.
Along the
top left
edge of the Mini's interface is the Home button, which can be accessed from any other
screen by tapping the bottom / middle
of the display.
The device is clad in black rubber with a band
of shiny plastic
along the
top edge, and the
screen has a half - inch bezel.
The oversized power button and volume control are on the
top edge of the
screen (although it auto - rotates at the slightest twist
of your wrist, almost too readily),
along with the headphone socket (and the extreme thinness
of the Tab makes the socket look unusually large).
In that landscape orientation, the PlayBook's 3 - megapixel front - facing camera sits centered over the
top of the
screen, with several buttons flush
along the
edge: the power button (which is miniscule, stiff, and difficult to use), volume buttons, and a mute button that doubles as a play / pause button.
While the
top edge of the Nook pops a bit more than the rest
of the
screen at full brightness, we found it less distracting that the four bright spots
along the bottom
of the Kindle.
The main settings and controls are
along the
top edge of the home
screen.
The brightness
of the light is adjustable with an on -
screen slider bar, and unlike the Kindle Paperwhite, the frontlight can be turned off completely by pressing a button
along the
top edge of the device.
Some shifting
of inputs is slightly disorienting, with volume controls now
along the
top screen, and both game carts and the stylus now housed in the unit's bottom
edge.
One problem with the hinge / connection is that pulling the
screen away from the keyboard dock almost always caused me to accidentally press the power button, which sits
along the
top edge of the tablet.
As you can see, this design puts the USB Type - C port on the
top of the device, a microSD slot on the bottom, and another
edged screen along the bottom
of its face...