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Originally Posted by SeaKing
"The ever-expanding smartphone screen: how supersized became everyday"
By Jon Fingas posted Mar 1st, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Engadget
"We almost need a reminder that much of the smartphone's development before 2007 reflected a drive to shrink the phone, not make it bigger."
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Hyper-analysis is always fun. Can't we just say that the age of the mobile telephone is nearing an end? This era started with bag phones -- which were awesome because they were portable. Bag phones were followed by smaller, less expensive bag-less phones. Then came battery phones. These devices were all clearly mobile phones.
Phones did not morph to smart phones then tablets. The phone function was added to personal, portable computers. We know this because 1) they work like computers not phones and 2) we use them like computers not phones.
My kid has an S3. It doesn't have a key pad. It has a desktop -- lots of them. 7x24, it wakes him, keeps an eye on his email, texts, calculates, browses the internet, and occasionally announces a phone caller. He swipes and taps and even talks to the thing.
It don't care what we call these handheld devices -- so long as we do not call them phablets.