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Google should make Android tablets 3:2, too, if they aren't going to make them 4:3 like Apple. It should be a bit better than 16:10, which I think still turns a lot of people off from using Android tablets vs iPads, knowing they can't really use them in vertical mode.


I think the 16:10 works very well for the Nexus 7 which is primarily used in portrait mode.


The Nexus 7 viewport feels very book-like as portrait. The iPad is the one that looks "wrong", too fat.


Reading in portrait on the iPad feels like US Letter sized paper; reading in portrait on my Kindle Fire HD feels like a paperback.

Meh. You get used to either one extremely quickly.


This is a matter of opinion, and I imagine probably highly correlated with which device you own.


"book-like" seemed spot on, maybe it's also correlated with how much time you've spent holding print books in your hand?




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