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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
It's all about the hardware churn. Gotta conjure up reasons for people to upgrade from perfectly usable phones.
Personally, I'd rather have a smallish phone... more along the lines of an iPod Touch 4G formfactor.... WITH a remote screen utility that allows my tablet to act as a larger replacement screen for the phone when I choose to. Connectivity between the phone and tablet could be hardwired or bluetooth.
All data and apps would reside on the smartphone. For those times when the portability and mobility are important, then the smaller screen will suffice. But when I have the opportunity to use a tablet-like device, accessing the media/data/apps on the phone on a 5", 7", or 10" tablet would be terrific. No syncing, no duplication of effort in maintaining apps, etc.
Back in the day, there was a device called the "Redfly" which provided a larger screen and QWERTY keyboard for use with PDAs. I'd like something similar but providing a tablet experience (rather than a netbook experience).
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I can't remember the device name now, but Palm came out with a netbook sized device called the Foleo that was basically a larger screen for their Treos/PDAs. This was a few years before tablets, and I think even before netbooks were popular. They never marketed it though as public interest in it was about ZERO. The darn thing couldn't really do much and what little it did required it to be connected to a Treo. They held a big conference to announce it, but even hard core Palm fanboys told them they were not interested in it! A few weeks later they announced they were cancelling production. That pretty much marked the end of Palm. Their OS was too outdated and instead of developing and releasing WebOS they wasted time with a device no one gave a rats backside about.
EDIT: It was the Palm Foleo. I remember now that we called it
Palm's Folly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo