System and method for a portable multimedia client
View Patent ↗Mobile devices are described, along with related services, systems, and methods. These devices include displays with pixel dimensions and pixel densities in ranges that are chosen to allow users to enjoy a more intuitive and more “desktop-like” Web or multi-media experience compared to other devices, while still enabling the devices to be pocketsize. Also described are devices with touch sensitive areas on the edges or back that let users efficiently and intuitively control some behaviors of the devices by touching the touch sensitive areas in certain ways. Embodiments of the present invention reduces the need for mechanical controls, which enables keeping the frame around the device's display unusually narrow, thereby permitting larger displays without increasing the overall sizes of the devices.
1. A portable electronic device comprising:
an enclosure;
a display comprised in the enclosure such that an active surface of the display is visible;
one or more horizontal controls operable to horizontally move content displayed by the active surface of said display, wherein a first one of said one or more horizontal controls is disposed at a bottom edge of said enclosure;
one or more vertical controls operable to vertically move content displayed by the active surface of said display, wherein at least one of said one or more vertical controls is disposed at a right or left edge of said enclosure, and said at least one vertical control operates substantially independent of said one or more horizontal controls;
a context modifier switch disposed at an edge of said enclosure; and
a second one of said one or more horizontal controls also disposed at the bottom edge of said enclosure, the context modifier switch being disposed at least partially between the first and second horizontal controls.
2. A portable electronic device comprising:
an enclosure, which is effectively sized to be inclusively within a plus or minus 15% range of 4.6 inches in the first dimension and inclusively within a plus or minus 15% range of 3.1 inches in the second dimension;
a touch sensitive display joined to said enclosure such that an active surface of said display is visible, said display having an effective pixel count in a first dimension inclusively within a plus or minus 15% range of 600 effective pixels, and an effective pixel count in a second dimension inclusively within a plus or minus 15% range of 400 effective pixels, and an effective pixel density inclusively within a plus or minus 15% range of 144 effective ppi; and
wherein at least one of the effective pixel counts in a respective dimension is achieved by halving the native resolution of the touch sensitive display along the respective dimension.