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I don't expect to be able to type quickly, accurately or prolifically on my iPhone the way I would on something the size of a tablet. I suspect many people fee

• dflock 17y ago
  I agree that these devices risk falling between two categories, not quite big enough, not quite portable enough, but I'm not sure about the keyboard thing. The on-screen keyboard on a decent sized tablet will be about the same size as a netbook keyboard and - unlike a phone - you can put the tablet down on a desk and type using both hands. I would imagine that a sensibly designed tablet might have little fold out feet on the underside to provide some elevation/rake at one end to support this mode better. I definitely agree that an Apple tablet at ~700 USD would be massively too expensive - but then I think that most existing Apple products are fairly outrageously overpriced - and well off Americans don't seem to mind too much. I actually think that with a good enough tablet, having external accessories/peripherals like keyboards, mice, storage etc.. would be a good thing, not a bad thing. When you're at home/work, you could use the propped-up tablet as the 'screen', with the rest of the 'computer' spread out on the desk, plugged in via USB. When you want to go out, just unplug the tablet and go. Lots of people use laptops in exactly this way now, as their primary 'desktop' & laptop computers - they just plug more stuff in when it's in 'desktop' mode. Using one like this would probably require a more general purpose OS, rather than something fairly phone specific like the iPhoneOS though.