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Isn't a 7 inch tablet kind of redundant when most Android phones are 4.5-5 inches these days? It doesn't seem like an extra 2-2.5 inches is going to make a big
by jsz0 14y ago
Isn't a 7 inch tablet kind of redundant when most Android phones are 4.5-5 inches these days? It doesn't seem like an extra 2-2.5 inches is going to make a big difference especially when you are running the exact same applications scaled up a bit. I believe this is one of the reasons the iPad has been so successful since Apple draws a clear line between a small phone and a large tablet. Consumers can immediately see the benefit of a larger device. When you're dealing with 2-2.5 inches even $200 seems hard to justify. That's about $100 an inch!
- tomkarlo 14y ago4.5 - 5" phones are still pretty new, and they're still not remotely the majority of units being sold. Not to mention lots of folks out there have 1-2 year old phones they're not about to replace (and may not want a 5" screen.) At least for reading, a 7" device like the Kindle Fire is a huge improvement over a 4" phone screen, much more than the simple size difference would indicate. At similar (smallish) font sizes, I can get about 5-7 words across the screen on a phone, whereas I can get 9-12 words on a 7" device. For books, news and movies, a size increase of about 75% is a big deal.