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I use a tablet instead of a phone, the screen and battery are significant hooks. It is slightly too large, I'm wondering if we won't all just settle on six inch
by brownbat 13y ago
I use a tablet instead of a phone, the screen and battery are significant hooks. It is slightly too large, I'm wondering if we won't all just settle on six inch screens for both soon.
For phones to completely win, we need terminals in offices and libraries that let you type on a full keyboard and use multiple monitors. Maybe you can just dock a phablet to power the dumb HCI? That would be my dream.
- dublinben 13y agoDo you use your tablet while walking around outside? Many people I see on a typical urban sidewalk are using their phone. Nobody is using a tablet. Multiple surveys have shown that tablets are used almost entirely at home. People still see them as largely entertainment devices.
- brownbat 13y ago> Do you use your tablet while walking around outside? Yes, absolutely. I get that I'm an outlier, but I used to have a phone, and my experience has improved on net since I moved up a size category. I might just be weird, but it's improved in ways that I would imagine would hold universal appeal: longer battery life, easier HCI (easier to type and swipe, easier to see nav, more readable text, better video). The downsides are that it doesn't play nice with some phone plans, and it's kind of awkward in one hand. Not completely awkward, but probably unreasonable for a lot of smaller handed people (teens?), killing wider adoption. That's why I think six inch phablets might hit the sweet spot.