01-04-2013, 02:16 AM | #61 |
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This makes me realize that the real innovator in this area was Dell, who created the first one, my Dell Streak. Well, the real innovators rarely get the credit. That being said, I hate the term phablet. anything that fits into my pants' pockets is just a phone for me.
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The simple fact of the matter is that android manufacturers basically only really have price and specs to differentiate themselves from each other so there is the obvious march to providing bigger and bigger screens because it is one of those features that is much easier to demonstrate in stores. |
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01-04-2013, 08:20 AM | #64 |
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01-04-2013, 08:33 AM | #65 | |
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And no matter what, if people don't want larger screen phones, they aren't going to buy them. They don't buy phones today based primarily on RAM and processors. Those are secondary considerations. Screen size, ecosystem and the version of a mobile OS are all bigger factors. So the idea that people are buying larger screen phones just because manufacturers are ramming them down their throats I think is pretty silly. --Pat |
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01-04-2013, 08:42 AM | #66 | |
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Yeah my wife just got the LG Intuition, with a 5 inch screen that comes with a writing stylus. She wanted tablet-like capabilities that was also a phone. She seems happy with it although it doesn't fit comfortably in a jeans pocket and to me is too bulky to be carrying around. Personally, I wouldn't go much bigger in terms of volume than my Rezound (4.3" screen) for a device I carry around in my pocket. Although, if phones can be made ultra thin in the future, and/or have the screen fill the entire front side, then you can have a bigger screen for about the same overall volume. |
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One one level I was just absently musing. But now that I think about it, the fact the the actual phone usage of even a "smartphone" device seems to be being marginalized versus it's other capabilities would seem to make that "ph" prefix of larger devices even less relevant and less of a game changer.
But honestly, I was just musing on how little people seem to care about the phone function of their "phones" these days. I remember the very first time I picked up an iPhone, I couldn't even immediately see how to make a call. ApK |
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As for not being able use a device (like your iPhone), that is entirely another matter and has more to do with how tech savvy a person is than on anything else. Did you even RTFM? Pardon my French, but I chuckle at reviews on Amazon complaining about how hard it is to use something and then it turns out they didn't even attempt to read it. --Pat |
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Smartphones are simply becoming computers you can fit in your pocket, with the telephone just being another feature. As data gets cheaper and cheaper, we make make more and more of our phone calls via the internet. Expensive data requires a phone company, cheap data doesn't.
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01-04-2013, 11:21 AM | #73 | |
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Apple will not move too fast because that might telegraph to their faithful that they are not leaders but followers. Therefore Apple will move slowly and just "mature" some because their customers wish them to. (i.e. we have heard your cry) The advantage to Apple is that new increments will be in size which is easy to do, and they still have the Apple faithful buying up "the NEXT REAL Thing." The old purchasers will not see their "legacy" products as hopeless outdated, but just as "previous generations" of a wonderful product. There isn't a lot to improve on their screen. It is really great already. Size is a lot easier. |
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For processing power, it shouldn't matter as the GPU should take care of drawing to the screen, though some of the drawing is still done in the CPU, so again, it depends. Edit: in this context, "larger screen" means greater resolution, not physically larger. There are no additional RAM or processing power requirements for physically larger screens. Last edited by afv011; 01-04-2013 at 12:29 PM. |
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