With the advent of larger smartphones, I use my tablet less and less.
I know they're not great now, but perhaps foldables will kill tablets all together?
It may actually be a smart move to unbloat the product lines a little.
I know they're not great now, but perhaps foldables will kill tablets all together?
It may actually be a smart move to unbloat the product lines a little.
I felt the same way about my MacBook Air. It's been my constant companion since 2011 to a dozen countries and dozens more cities. Love that machine.
This past April my wife bought me an iPad. The last three trips I took were with the 'Pad instead of the Air. I'm really surprised how useful that little thing is.
I feel like I can go back to a feature phone now.
Learning how to type a text again using the numpad was painful, but after a few weeks I was back up to speed.
No Facebook, Slack, Email. Not even a browser. No distractions.
When I'm out with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm working, I'm at my desk with a real computer.
My rest social media including whatsapp in another device.
They are being sold a lot on ebay etc. too. Refurbished and cheap, if you are willing to wait for the package.
I use C3-00 and non of it's (primitive) smart features. It's still a dumb phone.
One of my daughters loves drawing and ‘painting’ on the iPad, I got Procreate for her and she spends hours on it. She complains she’s started tapping to undo when she’s sketching on paper.
iPad can do all the above, plus much better web browsing, reddit, video/youtube viewing, photo editing, email and writing in general (with Apple Smartkeyboard), etc. It works with touch, pencil and keyboard and just feels like my personal device.
Why not something like Galaxy Note? Or one of 7 inch phones if pencil is optional?
As far as the Galaxy Note. Android still sucks as a tablet OS.
What would convince me away would have been something like the Huawei Mate X foldable, before the US had to go all ...
The multimedia (audio, graphics, 3D) story on Android is really bad.
Half backed APIs, no Android Studio tooling, command line tools and github project dumps without proper documentation.
Basically every upscale school district runs a fleet of them. That's ton of iPads.
Edit: And I say this as someone who's developed software for the education space in a way that necessitates knowing what tech stack schools have.
I used Chromebooks in high school and they were quite nice, but they didn't completely evolve my relationship with education. They were tools and not much more than that. Certainly not part of an education revolution. Definitely useful for writing papers though. I imagine districts that bought iPads are content with them as well.
After owning a few older iPads and Nexus tablets, I haven't used them in years, instead preferring to do content consumption on my phone or TV and anything more on a full PC. Most people say they even prefer to do basic shit like shopping on PCs - easier to comparison shop, bigger screens, more capable machines and user interfaces. This situation isn't going to improve for tablets, they're trying to hit on a niche that's quite limited.
a) the phone displays are getting wider; with widening of the aspect ratio, the diagonal is rising faster than the surface of the display.
b) the ratio of screen to body rises (you are getting smaller bezels).
That means in practice, that for example the 5,2" Sony Xperia Z5 (with ~70% screen to body ratio, 16:9 display aspect ratio) is 1,5 mm narrower and 4 mm shorter than 6,1" Samsung Galaxy S10 (~88% screen to body ratio, 19:9 aspect ratio). Subjectively, thanks to the rounded corners of the S10, it feels smaller than Z5.
Based on the screen diagonal, you would not say that you are going to have such impression, the difference is 0,9" after all.
As you say the battle now is on to eliminate bezels. From what I can tell the final station on that journey is a screen of about 6.5" to 6.75".
its not really "top of the line" anymore, but the fact that its light on the wallet (~$250) is another major benefit
For a 3.3" smartphone check this https://liliputing.com/2019/06/palms-tiny-smartphone-now-ava...
This is Google failing, not the lack of a market.