That's not to say it's particularly stylish, with its slightly bulging sides and
shiny plastic edging ensuring that it won't be taking on the new Nexus 7 in the desirability stakes, let alone the iPad mini.
Not exact matches
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 display is buffered by a healthy chunk of black bezel on all four sides, and a rounded - over border of
shiny gray
plastic makes for
edges that are easy on the hands.
This brushed aluminium back wraps around the
edges similar to a unibody design, but this is marred by a thin,
shiny plastic rim.
It's got softer, rounded
edges compared to its bigger brother and the
shiny plastic is more cheerful than cheap, sort of like the iPhone 5C.
It's sturdy (the Lady is still using it on her iPad 3), and while the metal hinge has worn a
shiny pattern into the iPad's
edge, it grips way better than the
plastic - hinged covers for the Air and Mini.
Also, extending from the speaker grilles, Nvidia has ditched the
shiny, slanted
plastic edge.
The front of the Huawei Blaze is a seamless glass (or at least a very
shiny plastic) construction, with the top
edge of the screen bending around the face of the phone.