You're right, but I have a gripe with that picture. Physically, your explanation is correct. However, Nokia's done a rather "blah" job with this rendering because it isn't accurate. The drawing dictates it has to slide to end up oriented as shown, but if we look at it closely, there is no overlap between the top and bottom halves. The top half is floating above the bottom, almost separated entirely. It is closer to what a clamshell would resemble. So someone was lazy. Sadly, I'm at work and can't access the article "read" link, so if there are better pictures then excuse my analysis :)
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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@ ZSX
You're right, but I have a gripe with that picture. Physically, your explanation is correct. However, Nokia's done a rather "blah" job with this rendering because it isn't accurate. The drawing dictates it has to slide to end up oriented as shown, but if we look at it closely, there is no overlap between the top and bottom halves. The top half is floating above the bottom, almost separated entirely. It is closer to what a clamshell would resemble. So someone was lazy. Sadly, I'm at work and can't access the article "read" link, so if there are better pictures then excuse my analysis :)