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Tablets are purely a very short-lived stop gap (think a few years). The future is phone sized devices with foldable screens. Use it small when you're on the g

Tablets are purely a very short-lived stop gap (think a few years). The future is phone sized devices with foldable screens. Use it small when you're on the go. But when you want to sit on the couch or on the bus, you open it up. The dedicated tablet becomes a niche product for those people that need the full power of a dedidicated large machine. http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-develops-sweet-foldable-amoled-screen-with-no-seam-13151802/ http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-develops-sweet-foldable-amo...

erikpukinskis 16y ago
There's no way a screen the size of the iPad is going to fit in your pocket in the next 10-20 years. Not because it can't fold, but because it weights a pound and a half. The battery alone is 5+ ounces, more than the entire weight of an iPhone. Dedicated tablets are here to stay.
- kenjackson 16y ago
  Display efficiency is getting better all the time. If PenTile ever becomes reasonable, that has a 40% reduction in power. And if you gave me the choice to carry a heavier phone, but get rid of a tablet, I'd do it. Lastly, I suspect the size of these tablets would be 7" rather than 10".
  - berntb 16y ago
    I didn't realize the reason why 7" is bad before I got an iPad and started to read web pages, pdf documents etc. For 7" to take over, you need to change standard for page sizes (or operate the eyes of everyone over 40).
    - cma 16y ago
      Android tablets can reflow the text on zoom.
      - berntb 16y ago
        I love Instapaper, but reflow (not removal of images etc) is just painful on lots of web sites/pdf pages.
jws 16y ago
Is it prognostication day already? I dissent. I call the future is: Your world in your phone sized device backed by the cloud, with the option to use anonymous, mindless larger displays when in close proximity. (Bonus good future if I can also leap to a processor in an anonymous proximate device for speed.) EOM Reasoning: Producing enough light for a larger display requires power, requires mass, interferes with the light weight of the phone. Decouple the display and the phone. Ditto for CPU power and storage.
- kenjackson 16y ago
  I call the future is: Your world in your phone sized device backed by the cloud, with the option to use anonymous, mindless larger displays when in close proximity. I've seen the future, and that's not it. :-) Too expensive, and just can't be ubiquitous. How many large displays can you put in a bus or in the stands of a football game or at McDonalds? With that said, such devices will exist, but they'll be your TVs in the house. And on battery life. Even today people can get some decent efficiencies, and it will get better. Here's what Engadget had to say about the Kyocera Echo (a dual screen phone, with a 1370mAh battery, which is smaller than the iPhone 4s): "We took a different approach. We charged the phone fully and then went about using it as we normally would for an entire day -- checking emails, browsing through TweetDeck, zoning out on a conference call for an hour or so, watching a bit of Sprint TV and playing entirely too much full-screen Pac-Man. We'd say 70 percent of our usage had both panels open, which is likely far greater than what you'd see after the novelty wears off. That said, we managed around 15 hours of use before it petered out, and on a second try -- one that involved far less dual-screen action -- we squeezed out 22 total hours. " 15 hours isn't ideal, but with some work that we're seeing out of Samsung, I don't think 24 hours is out of the question in a year or two at all. And that's with a relatively small battery. EDIT: You have to love cowards that downvote, but don't dare say a peep.
- orangecat 16y ago
  Producing enough light for a larger display requires power, requires mass, interferes with the light weight of the phone. Decouple the display and the phone. Correct. Which is why my prediction is a heads-up display in glasses, driven by the "phone" in your pocket. Computer displays as we know them will mostly go away, but we'll effectively have infinitely sized screens.

erikpukinskis 16y ago

There's no way a screen the size of the iPad is going to fit in your pocket in the next 10-20 years. Not because it can't fold, but because it weights a pound and a half. The battery alone is 5+ ounces, more than the entire weight of an iPhone. Dedicated tablets are here to stay.

kenjackson 16y ago
Display efficiency is getting better all the time. If PenTile ever becomes reasonable, that has a 40% reduction in power. And if you gave me the choice to carry a heavier phone, but get rid of a tablet, I'd do it. Lastly, I suspect the size of these tablets would be 7" rather than 10".
- berntb 16y ago
  I didn't realize the reason why 7" is bad before I got an iPad and started to read web pages, pdf documents etc. For 7" to take over, you need to change standard for page sizes (or operate the eyes of everyone over 40).
  - cma 16y ago
    Android tablets can reflow the text on zoom.
    - berntb 16y ago
      I love Instapaper, but reflow (not removal of images etc) is just painful on lots of web sites/pdf pages.

jws 16y ago

Is it prognostication day already? I dissent. I call the future is: Your world in your phone sized device backed by the cloud, with the option to use anonymous, mindless larger displays when in close proximity. (Bonus good future if I can also leap to a processor in an anonymous proximate device for speed.) EOM Reasoning: Producing enough light for a larger display requires power, requires mass, interferes with the light weight of the phone. Decouple the display and the phone. Ditto for CPU power and storage.

kenjackson 16y ago
I call the future is: Your world in your phone sized device backed by the cloud, with the option to use anonymous, mindless larger displays when in close proximity. I've seen the future, and that's not it. :-) Too expensive, and just can't be ubiquitous. How many large displays can you put in a bus or in the stands of a football game or at McDonalds? With that said, such devices will exist, but they'll be your TVs in the house. And on battery life. Even today people can get some decent efficiencies, and it will get better. Here's what Engadget had to say about the Kyocera Echo (a dual screen phone, with a 1370mAh battery, which is smaller than the iPhone 4s): "We took a different approach. We charged the phone fully and then went about using it as we normally would for an entire day -- checking emails, browsing through TweetDeck, zoning out on a conference call for an hour or so, watching a bit of Sprint TV and playing entirely too much full-screen Pac-Man. We'd say 70 percent of our usage had both panels open, which is likely far greater than what you'd see after the novelty wears off. That said, we managed around 15 hours of use before it petered out, and on a second try -- one that involved far less dual-screen action -- we squeezed out 22 total hours. " 15 hours isn't ideal, but with some work that we're seeing out of Samsung, I don't think 24 hours is out of the question in a year or two at all. And that's with a relatively small battery. EDIT: You have to love cowards that downvote, but don't dare say a peep.
orangecat 16y ago
Producing enough light for a larger display requires power, requires mass, interferes with the light weight of the phone. Decouple the display and the phone. Correct. Which is why my prediction is a heads-up display in glasses, driven by the "phone" in your pocket. Computer displays as we know them will mostly go away, but we'll effectively have infinitely sized screens.