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9to5Mac and Daring Fireball are both connecting the dots in the Apple rumour trail and reporting that the rumoured 7.85-inch iPad mini would look more like a bigger iPhone than it would a smaller iPad. Which means, instead of having a uniform bezel around the edge of the display, it would have a much thinner bezel on the left and right side.
9to5Mac mocked up the image you see above and it illustrates the difference between a thin bezeled iPad mini and what many has long assumed the iPad mini would look like (a shrunken down version of the iPad). John Gruber, who is very well connected at Apple, is saying the same thing: though the aspect ratio of the display on this forthcoming iPad mini will be the same as the current iPad (4:3), the whole device may not be—and the change would shave the bezel on the side. [Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac]
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Super thin bezel….sounds like the Galaxy SIII.
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Imagine if you were at apple and had changed the design to contradict all the rumours because they were true and the new design gets leaked too.
Isn’t an iPad just a big iPhone anyway?
I’m sure Samsung have tried to swing that in the courts against Apple.;)
So will this be a ‘big’ iPhone or a ‘small’ tablet?
Yes
Don’t you need a certain amount of bezel with a tablet anyway? Because otherwise you are always touching part of the screen just holding it?
Spot on. I thought the Nexus 7′s bezel looked a bit big in pictures but it’s just the right size to hold the thing without unintended screen taps.
Don’t worry. If the lack of bezel causes unintended screen taps I’m sure an Apple spokesman will explain that you’re holding it wrong.
Yes, but that’s just not fashionable daaahling.
I think this story has its wires crossed. The Nexus 7 has mismatched bezels – they’re thinner on the long size and thicker on the short side. Why?
Because Asus are making the device narrow enough to be held in one hand in portrait orientation, while providing comfortably large bezels to hold with two hands in landscape orientation. This phantom iPad may be no different, though with a larger 4:3 screen than a Nexus 7 it may be a struggle to hold in one hand. Perhaps the side bezels need to be super thin to allow it.
What a surprise! The giant iPhone, becomes a smaller iPad that looks just like a bigger iPhone.
Facepalm!!
OMFG! Thin side bezels!
How did the mere rumor of such insignificant change in design of a Apple product became news? And why the hell I still read gizmodo? I guess I’ve become neurotic, doing the same things and expecting different results…
But if they give it thinner side bezels then I won’t be able to tell the ipad and the iphone apart when I walk into a store!