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In my case, however, I consider myself a tech expert (as do my employers and clients) but it wasn't my iPhone. It was the first smartphone I'd encountered, I asked the person next to me if they had a phone I could use to make a quick call, and he handed me an iPhone. I looked at a screen full of icons where I was expecting to see a numeric keypad ('cuz it's a phone) in bewilderment for about 4 seconds, then handed it back and said "Dial this number for me please." I needed to make a call, not learn a new OS. ApK Last edited by ApK; 01-04-2013 at 01:47 PM. |
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01-04-2013, 02:11 PM | #77 |
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"PHAAAAAAAAblets! Get yer red-hot phablets!"
"Man, I'm freezin' my phablets off heah!" "Everyone take their phablets out and turn to screen 10 of page 350." Seriously... I'm dying a little on the inside if people are actually saying that word out loud in conversation. Typing/reading it on the internet is one thing, but please, PLEASE, tell me people aren't really adopting it in the real world. |
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Actually, the resolution of my Note and vertical display makes it possible to view a whole A4 coursebook page on one screen (PDF), which has not been possible on either Kindle or my notebook (1366x768). "View" means not just see Greek, but characters clear enough to read. This, coupled with "pinch to zoom" and a fast processor makes the Note my first truly mobile device being able to deal with PDFs adequately. And I had quite a few, even a SimPad (a Siemens 8" WinCE tablet of old).
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I assure you, that was not the case. I was just running out of phablet sentences. Although in my defense... there's not a resolution high enough that would allow my tired old eyes to read an entire A4 page of text on one 4, 5, 6-inch screen. Too tiny is too tiny at some point.
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Let's just call it what it is. A big-ass phone.
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On my trip to Egypt a couple of months ago there was a lady in our group who used her iPad as a camera for the whole tour, and I thought every day how very silly it looked to take pictures that way. And it's not even as if it's a particularly good camera, either.
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Big-ass phones are the future.
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