Why do people think tablets are just large smartphones?

[vdubbmax]

People think tablet are just like smartphone because it has many advance features likes smartphone it has big size as compare to phone but features are same smartphone. You can say it advance shape of laptop but it is close to smartphone now days like Galaxy smartphone.

 

[anon(50597)]

You know.... I was 100% in that camp before I ended up picking up a Nexus 7. I had been thinking about getting a tablet for the Fam.... something my kids could use to pass the time away on a long trip when one didn't want to watch what was on the DVD.... plane rides... crap like that. My wife started using it and became quite attached to it. The form factor makes it equally capable and portable.... phone/tablet/laptop... all three fill three very different roles.

This. Its the size that makes it more convenient than a phone but easier to carry than a laptop. I use mine all the time.

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[Evilnut]

These are some reasons why I have become so reliant and an advocate of tablets since I got my Nexus 10 on launch day back in October of 2012.

The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up, after hitting head of course, is grab my Nexus 10 and begin catching up on all of the happenings that have gone on in the world while I was sleeping. I check my social media feeds, forums, news, weather, traffic to my job site and do IM, texting (via TabletTalk) & email. I do all this while roaming around the house from room to room and making breakfast, making my lunch drinking my morning tea etc. The convenience of a tablet from factor and its lightweight is what makes this possible for me. All this time, my phone is still on the charger. It did its job by waking me up in the morning with the alarm. So throughout my morning I use the battery on my tablet and not my phone for all of these things. When I leave the house, I grab my phone off the dock and it has a full 100 percent charge for the day and plug my tablet in to the charger. I use my phone a lot during the day, so even though the Moto X has great battery life, I need to leave the house with it fully charged.

When I get home, I grab my tablet and connect it via Chromecast with with my home theater system and stream some music and sit down for a bit to relax and catch up on the news of the day with it. It is also extremely convenient and much better at sharing photos/videos with others on it's beautiful 10 inch screen. In addition, it is much better for me to take it with me when riding my motorcycle on a day trip, weekend or longer trip it is much smaller and more rugged than a laptop. It has a built in camera if I need to use it in a pinch, which I do on occasion. I also use it to do video hangouts with my grandkids and my mom. I don't have to sit down at a table and do that. I can easily move around the house or wherever I happen to be. The battery life is much better than most laptops too.

Plus, with its gorgeous screen and dual front facing stereo speakers, it is a gaming and media consumption machine! I use it a lot with the Dish Anywhere app to watch television, movies & sports while out and about or relaxing in my backyard on a nice day and being lazy. This alone makes owning this tablet well worth it to me.

I also do all of my banking and the vast majority of online shopping from either my tablet or my phone. It is just more convenient as most of the time one of those is no more than an arms length away.

Don't get me wrong, I fully realize that most phones, including my Moto X, can do all of these things too. But, the form factor, battery life and convenience of doing them on my Nexus 10 is much more enjoyable for me. I am eagerly awaiting the rumored 8 inch class tablet coming up as the next Nexus. That would be the perfect size in my opinion. The Nexus 7 is a bit too small for me and the Nexus 10 is sometimes a bit too large for me. I think some people just have not given tablets a really good chance or try. I was in that camp too until used a friends Galaxy 10 inch tablet. That is why I bought my Nexus 10. For the last year and a half, my very nice Lenovo laptop has pretty much not moved from the desk where it sits. I mainly use it for my music recording software now. But I can access my full PC desktop from my tablet anywhere too. I switched over to using Google Docs when I got my tablet also. So I really don't need all of the Microsoft office suite on my laptop anymore either. If the next crop of Chromebooks are as good as they are rumored to be, I will probably purchase one of those to basically be a laptop replacement. My 22 year old daughter bought a Acer Chromebook several months ago to replace her aging laptop. Even with going to college, she has not needed anything more than a Chromebook.

Okay, so that's my story. I fully realize that many people still need a PC, and all the functionality it offers. And in no way is this post meant to try to convince anyone that PCs, tablets, phones or Chromebook are better or worse than one or the other. I just wanted all the people that have posted here about tablets being "useless" or "just big phones" to see from my perspective how that is not true, to me. With the right apps installed on a tablet, it really can do almost anything a laptop can do for the vast majority of what most people do on a daily basis, in a very convenient & portable form factor.

Stepping off Soap Box now...

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[A895]

These are some reasons why I have become so reliant and an advocate of tablets since I got my Nexus 10 on launch day back in October of 2012.

The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up, after hitting head of course, is grab my Nexus 10 and begin catching up on all of the happenings that have gone on in the world while I was sleeping. I check my social media feeds, forums, news, weather, traffic to my job site and do IM, texting (via TabletTalk) & email. I do all this while roaming around the house from room to room and making breakfast, making my lunch drinking my morning tea etc. The convenience of a tablet from factor and its lightweight is what makes this possible for me. All this time, my phone is still on the charger. It did its job by waking me up in the morning with the alarm. So throughout my morning I use the battery on my tablet and not my phone for all of these things. When I leave the house, I grab my phone off the dock and it has a full 100 percent charge for the day and plug my tablet in to the charger. I use my phone a lot during the day, so even though the Moto X has great battery life, I need to leave the house with it fully charged.

When I get home, I grab my tablet and connect it via Chromecast with with my home theater system and stream some music and sit down for a bit to relax and catch up on the news of the day with it. It is also extremely convenient and much better at sharing photos/videos with others on it's beautiful 10 inch screen. In addition, it is much better for me to take it with me when riding my motorcycle on a day trip, weekend or longer trip it is much smaller and more rugged than a laptop. It has a built in camera if I need to use it in a pinch, which I do on occasion. I also use it to do video hangouts with my grandkids and my mom. I don't have to sit down at a table and do that. I can easily move around the house or wherever I happen to be. The battery life is much better than most laptops too.

Plus, with its gorgeous screen and dual front facing stereo speakers, it is a gaming and media consumption machine! I use it a lot with the Dish Anywhere app to watch television, movies & sports while out and about or relaxing in my backyard on a nice day and being lazy. This alone makes owning this tablet well worth it to me.

I also do all of my banking and the vast majority of online shopping from either my tablet or my phone. It is just more convenient as most of the time one of those is no more than an arms length away.

Don't get me wrong, I fully realize that most phones, including my Moto X, can do all of these things too. But, the form factor, battery life and convenience of doing them on my Nexus 10 is much more enjoyable for me. I am eagerly awaiting the rumored 8 inch class tablet coming up as the next Nexus. That would be the perfect size in my opinion. The Nexus 7 is a bit too small for me and the Nexus 10 is sometimes a bit too large for me. I think some people just have not given tablets a really good chance or try. I was in that camp too until used a friends Galaxy 10 inch tablet. That is why I bought my Nexus 10. For the last year and a half, my very nice Lenovo laptop has pretty much not moved from the desk where it sits. I mainly use it for my music recording software now. But I can access my full PC desktop from my tablet anywhere too. I switched over to using Google Docs when I got my tablet also. So I really don't need all of the Microsoft office suite on my laptop anymore either. If the next crop of Chromebooks are as good as they are rumored to be, I will probably purchase one of those to basically be a laptop replacement. My 22 year old daughter bought a Acer Chromebook several months ago to replace her aging laptop. Even with going to college, she has not needed anything more than a Chromebook.

Okay, so that's my story. I fully realize that many people still need a PC, and all the functionality it offers. And in no way is this post meant to try to convince anyone that PCs, tablets, phones or Chromebook are better or worse than one or the other. I just wanted all the people that have posted here about tablets being "useless" or "just big phones" to see from my perspective how that is not true, to me. With the right apps installed on a tablet, it really can do almost anything a laptop can do for the vast majority of what most people do on a daily basis, in a very convenient & portable form factor.

Stepping off Soap Box now...

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Your life sounds so interesting, I'm jealous. I'm in college myself and I have been thinking if grabbing a Chromebook. I used Google Drive for almost all of my assignments this past semester and I think I may be able to survive on a Chromebook alone.

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[ronin73]

i totally agree with A895...

 

[Evilnut]

Your life sounds so interesting, I'm jealous. I'm in college myself and I have been thinking if grabbing a Chromebook. I used Google Drive for almost all of my assignments this past semester and I think I may be able to survive on a Chromebook alone.

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I don't know about interesting.... Kind of routine during the work week. But the weekends & vacations are a whole different story......

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[thatguy97]

It's common knowledge a phone is a phone and a tablet is a tablet

Posted from my Nexus 7 2013 or Samsung galaxy S5

 

[Billy95Tech]

Some good answers especially @Evilnut.

Lets keep this thread(debate) going!

 

[A895]

A tablet is a larger phone without the phone part. It's just more screen real estate.

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[B. Diddy]

I was thinking about this recently--smartphones are getting so dang powerful that saying a tablet is "just a large smartphone" shouldn't be a bad thing!