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In order to argue the author's point you would also need to be carrying around a 5" phone. He is pointing out the trend of more people using their phones for what they used to use their tablets for. I'd be interested to know if you have a 5" phone and whether or not you think it replaces the features of your tablet in any way.

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Speaking for myself, no, my smartphone does not replace my tablet. The amount of screen realestate lost when going from 11" to 5" is just too much. It makes reading hard (particularly with less than perfect eyesight), movies too small, and all of the real time communication that comes with a phone is vying for my attention all the time.

Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'd drop my phone in a heartbeat...

> Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'd drop my phone in a heartbeat...

What's stopping you? I do this from Hangouts (which can make calls, at least in the US.)

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I'm pretty sure android doesn't run on the iPad, which is what the person I was responding to said they use.

(That said, yes, you can do this on android, with skype and a skype-in number.)

I'm with you on that. Though actually my thinking is increasingly "dumbphone + tablet". Where the phone gets carried when I absolutely, positively, must be in contact (and the less that happens the better).

My HTC One (4.7") has more or less obliterated my Nexus 7 usage.

I can do that with google voice.

My Note II (and now Note III) completely killed my tablet use... or more properly put, replaced it. With the stylus and multitasking, feels more like a small tablet with phone capabilities.

My various tablets are now nearly permanently attached to my computers. I need them for writing / testing software, but that is mostly all they do these days, don't carry them around the house much, never carry them out of the house.

I think phablets may replace small tablets, but the real question is whether large tablets will replace laptops/desktops. That's where the growth market is for tablets if the software becomes powerful enough.

I've given up mobile phones completely. The only device I carry around is a Nexus 7.

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/no-smartphones/

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