Phones with a 7"+ screen???
Geez, I guess Apple needs to add voice capability to the next iPad Mini and capture the high (7.9") end of this weird new market!
Large smartphones, aka “phablets” have have captured a big (fondle)slab of the mobile phone market in Asia. That pronouncement comes from analyst outfit IDC's new Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, which identifies folks willing to use a phablet – a tablet with built-in phone and at least a seven-inch screen – as a new …
People are spending less and less time using their phone to talk and more and more time to surf and use apps. If you talk for less than 10 minutes a month on your phone, but use it in data mode for several hours a day, I can see a larger screen being more useful.
as for some folk, this is their main/only "networked communications device"
An ideal size for business folk on the move.
If you link your bluetooth headphones, then you can take calls and/or listen to your music on the go.
Add dual-sim and it's an ideal travelling/roaming companion.
now, where did I leave my old HTC-Flyer? I sense a CM 'upgrade' project coming along, to keep up with "the kids".
(I have a downloaded ROM which enables the 'voice' part of the hardware AND keeps the pen functionality...)
I actually use a Note 10.1 like this. Apart from needing to take it everywhere — which I would do anyway — I don't see any inconvenience, as long as I'm using a bluetooth headset.
Besides, being able to just tap a button and start taking notes, like a real paper notebook, is a huge help for me.