Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Two Screens Aren’t Better Than One for Sony Tablet P - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

File under “Future collectors’ item”

The new Tablet P, sold in AT&T stores, is a 7-inch long, narrow, hinged device with no exposed display at all. When you open it, twin small screens are revealed. Content can appear on one of the two screens, or be spread across both. It can operate over either a Wi-Fi or a cellular-data connection.

It sounds cool, but the Tablet P has some crucial drawbacks. The most important one is that, to take advantage of its full viewing area by using both screens as a single display, you must put up with a thick, black, plastic bar across the center of whatever you’re viewing. That disruptive scar is the inside of the hinge, where the dual screens meet.

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Two Screens Aren’t Better Than One for Sony Tablet P - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

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