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7" plus an inch of bezels on each side. A Nexus 7 was nearly 10 inches.

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Those bezels are useful though. The bigger and heavier the device the better grip you need in it.

Modern devices try to get around it with crazy accidental touch recognition that works some of the time. But older tablets with bezels give you a place to grip it without the need for touch rejection.

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Modern devices try to get around it with crazy accidental touch recognition that works some of the time.

What you do is you take your thousand dollar fragile crystal oblong and you wrap it in a 30 dollar hunk of plastic that adds the correct bezels for actual human interaction and also provides a moderate amount of physical protection and strength.

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It’s not an entirely unreasonable approach since the part that’s most susceptible to wear and tear is cheap and replacable vs wear on the fragile crystal and metal slab of magic.

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I miss my bezel’d phones. It was nice having something I could grip onto that wasn’t screen.

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