Saturday 9 February 2013

Phablets: Great for everything but as phones?


Credit: Boy Genius Report

My take: big screens are better, with the proviso that the user has to be able to span the device to hold it to her ear. If a particular phone is too wide, make do with one with a smaller screen.

About concentration of development on phablets rather than smaller phones: this is nonsense. Development in one phone is used in development of the next. E.g. Samsung Galaxy Note II is essentially a Galaxy S III with more RAM, battery & screen.

http://bgr.com/2013/02/08/phablet-criticism-phone-functionality-questionable-322559/     / Samsung Samsung’s 005930 impressive Galaxy Note II 2 does a lot of things very well Google Google’s GOOG mobile Chrome browser installed joy surf the web beautiful bright screen excellent device mobile gaming stylus very useful jotting down quick notes making small shopping lists similarly sized phablets simply mobile telephones cell phone people look completely ridiculous holding the mammoth-sized Note II up to our ears large devices feel particularly mobile in the sense that they don’t fit all that easily in my pants pockets unless I decide to pull a Kris Kross and walk around wearing backward jeans all the time doesn’t feel comfortable to hold hands measure fairly large seven-and-a-half inches stubby fingers phablet avalanche Apple AAPL iPhablet LTE-Advanced technology require more antennae higher processing power super-fast data speeds smartphone vendors /

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