Not exact matches
Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete»
button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed
mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in
landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.
The full color screen allows you to rotate it up to 180 degrees in portrait and
landscape mode with the touch of a
button.
While holding the tab in
landscape mode, at the top edge lies the Power
button, Volume rockers and Home
button while to the left edge houses the extended ports for DC charging, microUSB, microSD card slot, mini HDMI, 3.5 mm Earphone and MIC.
You can mess with the size of the display, but your best bet is to switch the Screen Rotation using the Aa
button —
landscape mode helps make small fonts readable without a lot of panning around.
HTC designed the Flyer with both portrait and
landscape mode in mind by placing the soft - touch
buttons for Home, Menu, Back and Pen Tools on both the long and short sides.
Up top, there's the headphone jack while stylus pocket and speakers sit below the three main
buttons and instantly become an performance issue when using the tablet in
landscape mode.
There are no physical
buttons on the front of this plastic device, which is meant to be used in
landscape mode, as indicated by the ChildPad logo printed along one edge.
When held in
landscape mode, you'll find a small power
button on the left of the G - Slate and volume controls up top.
Instead, if you want to get out of the standard portrait
mode, you can hit a settings
button and visit
landscape.
Often when you switch it from
landscape and portrait
mode you have to hit the back
button or any
button in order to prompt the system to re-draw the lines of pixels in the new
mode.
The centering of the Back / Home / Recent
buttons means I can no longer comfortably reach them with my thumb — it becomes painful, actually, and impossible in
landscape mode — so now have to use my other hand to access those
buttons.
Pageturn keys don't work in 3rd party apps e-Paper refresh rate makes most apps unviable Home
button is an illusion, it turns on the light Most apps are full screen, it makes exiting the app tedious Incapable of switching to
landscape mode outside the stock reading app
But oddly the page sensor
buttons do not work in
landscape mode.
I like the fact it reads so many different ebook formats and does switch from
landscape to portrait
mode at the touch of a
button.
On the side of the unit it has volume switches, a power
button, and a orientation lock
button so you can lock the accelerometer to either
landscape or portrait
mode.
You can dock the tablet in
landscape (power
button facing up) or portrait
mode (speakers facing down) to start charging the device.
And as you rotate your iPad from portrait to
landscape mode, the
button shifts accordingly.
The rear - facing 2 - megapixel camera will be covered if you hold the tablet in what we naturally felt to be
landscape mode, with the volume
buttons at the upper edge and the case flipped around the top of the tablet.
So in
landscape mode, the home
button moves down to one of the hardest places to reach, and there's no way to stop it.
On the left side (when the tablet is held in
landscape mode) sit a power
button, up / down volume rocker, a screen rotation lock switch, and a microSD card reader.
The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 clearly wants you to use it in
landscape mode; its speakers are embedded into the side edges; the Samsung logo and front - facing camera are centered above the display; and a slightly raised home
button is flanked by two soft navigation
buttons, centered beneath the display.
I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate having to really deliberately stretch my thumb down to hit the home or back
button when I'm using the Nexus 9 in
landscape mode.
The one major downside we came across is that it's far too easy to accidentally hit the power
button when you're holding it in
landscape mode, which leads to the display switching off and general annoyance.
Even the
buttons are placed on the top side like a phone, but again this works for both portrait and
landscape modes and the Windows
button is right in your face so you can hop back to the Start screen easily.
The volume
buttons are clearly defined, and located at the top in portrait
mode and along the left side in
landscape mode.
Its 3.5 mm headphone jack and power
button are on the top of the tablet when held in
landscape mode, but so are the volume controls.
When holding the Note 10.1 in its
landscape mode, the top area is where you'll find the tablet's sleep / power
button and volume rocker, the right side houses one of its speakers and a slot for the S Pen towards the upper portion, while the microSD and SIM slots.
Tapping on the Dual Window
button allows you to open two apps simultaneously, positioned vertically if the tablet is in portrait
mode and horizontally if it's in a
landscape orientation.
When held in
landscape mode, a covered SD Card slot and the Power / Sleep
button sit on top, volume controls are on the left, and a stylus is housed securely at the bottom left corner.
Apart from that, its back cover doubles as an iPad 2 stand to hold the iPad 2 in
landscape viewing
mode, while the custom cutouts allow you access to all iPad 2
buttons and functions.
Keys NOT removed from the tablet with lots of screen estate for onscreen
buttons Guess we'll have to continue to awkwardly press those
buttons on the side of the tablet when we hold it in
landscape mode and continue to have misclicks when we play games.
The
buttons all looked right, but no
landscape mode!
The only adornments on the front of the tablet are the 2.1 - MP front camera on the top and the Windows touch
button on the bottom, assuming you're holding the tablet in
landscape mode.
The power and volume
buttons are on the right side, which is the top of the tablet in
landscape mode.
The power
button sits on the top left edge, and a headphone jack is on the top right edge next to a toggle switch that enables auto - rotation from
landscape to portrait
modes.
If you have the screen rotation setting off on your phone, you will now see a
button in the calculator that allows you to switch between
landscape and portrait
mode.
When positioned in
landscape mode, the Yoga Tablet 2 houses the power
button on the left side of the cylinder, and the right side has a headphone jack.
Along the top right side of the tablet (in
landscape mode) sits the power
button, volume rocker, and rotation lock switch.
It would also be good to have lots of keyboard shortcuts like making the space bar a page turn
button when in
landscape mode.
Flanking both are two sets of forward and back
buttons, the presence of which make it possible to use the Story in both portrait and
landscape modes.
It's fine when held in
landscape mode — the rear edges can be used as a tactile guide — but it's annoying when I want to quickly wake the tablet from sleep, but have to pick it up first to reach the back instead of just tapping a
button on its side.
Once you get used to it the device is quite comfortable to hold with a thumb resting on a page
button, especially in
landscape mode, which is something a lot of people probably overlook.
In
landscape orientation you'll find a power
button and volume rocker on the top, along with a ridged quick launch
button that puts the tablet in TV
mode, giving you immediate access to a media app of your choice.
The only
buttons on the tablet are for lock and volume, which are located on the top left side of the case (in
landscape mode).
Along the slanted, soft - touch back sides, in
landscape mode, you'll find an indented power
button on the left and volume
buttons on the right that were easy to find by touch alone.
The Streak 5 has 3
buttons at the bottom (or right when held in its normal
landscape mode) are capacitive.
When the tablet is closed, the power
button on the top left is easy to find; but I got frustrated by its location and poor physical definition when using the tablet with the keyboard open and in
landscape mode.
Next to it there's a
button to switch between portrait and
landscape mode.
When held in
landscape mode, the slate's power
button is on the left, conveniently positioned for thumb maneuvering.
Amazon also switched its power and volume
button placement this time around, so that they sit near where your hands typically rest while holding it in
landscape mode.