It is a tad cumbersome to have to place to
fingers around the display, but it does work, and seems to be fairly accurate when measuring the heart rate.
Not exact matches
His pulse - oximeter, clipped
around his right index
finger,
displayed normal vital signs on the bedside monitor.
For example, with Zoom instead of using three
fingers to zoom in / out and pan
around the
display, you use two
fingers to account for the limited screen real estate.
Amazon has kept the bezel
around the
display wide enough to accommodate
fingers and thumbs so you never accidentally touch the
display when reading.
He said the resolution of the
display could be increased to make up for the smaller size, but that would be «meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their
fingers to
around one quarter of the present size.»
Firing up a session of Real Racing 3, it was nice and grippy, with enough bezel
around the
display to ensure you can grip the tablet without having
fingers in the way.
He did, however, make one suggestion that might mitigate the challenge of a smaller screen — albeit a painful one: «While one could increase the resolution of the
display to make up for some of the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper so that the user can sand down their
fingers to
around one quarter of their present size.»
Samsung has retained just about enough bezel
around the
display to give you somewhere to grip without putting your
fingers all over the
display, which is always useful.
With a 5.5 - inch
display the OnePlus 3 is hardly small, but it nestles into the crook of your palm and the flat sides give you just enough to wrap your
fingers around to get a sense that the phone isn't going to slide
around much.
If you don't care about the shrinking bezel trend, you'll be happy with a colorful and bright AMOLED
display, and a compact phone you can easily wrap your
fingers around.
Samsung has retained just about enough bezel
around the
display to give you somewhere to grip without putting your
fingers all over the
display, which is always useful.
Like the Galaxy S 4, the Mega 6.3 includes an hypersensitive
display, and you can see a tiny light follow your hovering
finger around the lock screen.
Now Playing uses Pixel Ambient Services to identify songs playing
around you, and once it knows what title it is, it'll automatically
display the name of the song and artist on your lock screen so you can see what's playing without having to lift a
finger.
The left and right - side bezels
around the
display aren't as tiny as most top - level smartphones these days, but they're right in the sweet spot for those users that don't like their
fingers smudging the edges of the
display space.