To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.
Consequently, carriers are offering lessons on how to text, introducing phones with larger sized buttons to make it easier to text and increasing media budgets to target older users.
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It also includes an OCR function that can both re-display text in larger fonts and offer an audio version for listening.
If it's a text post, the author's larger wall photo appears faintly in the background.
As part of the redesign, friends' photos will now appear larger and shared articles will include bigger images, text and the logos of publishers.
"I would love to be able to come up with a way that we can do much larger scale translations, but remember we are constrained by this 160 character text message limit, " said Dr Eagle.
These doctors have become media figures almost larger than life-sometimes we can even reach out to them via email, text, Facebook and Twitter.
Google could use the company to expand its advertising service from small text ads to multimedia display ads and offer more advertising options to a larger network of Web pages.
To solve this problem MTN is building a seamless network to tie onboard and on-shore systems together as part of a larger plan to enhance connectivity, regardless of where the passengers wishes to talk, text, or transfer data.
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Merz said that as the ships get larger and larger, Wi-Fi will play an important role in allowing guests to stay in touch via text or calls while on board.
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