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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It absolutely must be smartphone size. How many phone users would readily swap their phones for a large tablet?
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It's not a matter of swapping. People carry around netbooks or laptops along with their phones. They'd do the same for tablets. Smartphones are too small to do a lot of tablet tasks (e.g., watch video over a long stretch, do word processing, e-mail, etc.).
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
That's why I have a 7" tablet.
Look at it this way; while others have a smartphone and a tablet, I have an iPod touch and a tablet. Same thing, except I'm not paying for a data plan I don't need; and it's that data plan that keeps me from getting a smartphone.
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Sure. But I think there are a lot of people who
are paying for data plans, and -- especially with unlimited data plans -- they're much more likely to just ditch their storage-based music players and go for the cloud. Of course, if you don't want the data plan, a locally-based storage is the best alternative.