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Originally Posted by ApK
"...well enough..."
"...watchable...."
Stunning endorsements.
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for voice
and video
for music playback, web browsing and e-book reading I consider it of high quality for a mobile device.
Carrying a 10" screen in my pocket is not my acceptable definition for a mobile device.
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As for music, I was thinking in terms of audio quality (which as you say, does not matter to you as long as it is intelligible, but it matters to many)
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nope, I was talking about voice as provided by phone operators.
Music playback and its DAC are pretty much a match to stand alone quality players.
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For me, the main function of a cell phone is to be a phone that is always available to me.
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yup, for me too. Which is why iPad and the likes don't suit me, aside even from their grotesque non-mobile sizes.
Since it also comes with all the rest, I'm not complaining.
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And even so, that doesn't mean that all-in-one smart phones or tablets can't live along side GOOD readers, and GOOD cameras, and GOOD communication devices, and GOOD media players.
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and then suddenly you have to carry in your backpack a large Pentax Camera with full binoculars, a 10" screen without a keyboard, a media player, a PDA and a portable game device and their respective power chargers. All of them using their own displays, memory, CPU and storage. I'd rather have it all in my pocket than in a loaded backpack.
In the end, the cheap, portable device which does everything adequately enough wins -- specially as adequate tomorrow means top-notch today. and then you let go a tear...
