[quotemsg=9286356,12,200652]You can't hold a Smartphone or netbook like a book. Screen is to tiny to share with an phone... and as it is, 4" screens are a BIT TOO big for a phone. trying sharing photos with family with a phone... like with 4-5 people. Netbooks don't rotate their screens. ie: flip a tablet to another person's angle and the interface flips right-side up.
I own a desktop (typing on now) a Thinkpad (for out in the field work as well as some home stuff) and an ipad(1) for work, presentations as well as around the house. Yeah, sometimes *I* don't want to sit at my desk with a 24" screen. I can lay on the couch or in bed and read, go to websites with an iPad / tablet.
Netbooks / notebooks have full blown OSed, you spend 1-2 minutes booting up. Watching TV, see something of interests and want to look it up? Okay, go to the room with the computer, boot it up, etc etc... a tablet powers up in a second (the way my Android phone DOES not) and it'll lock onto my network in 2-3 seconds and I can do searches.
Not everyone needs a tablet... heck, nobody really needs one. They are handy devices, like a cell phone, or any other device.[/quotemsg]
After reading what you just wrote I am more convinced that these things are a $600 something that people like to buy to feel like they have the coolest toys lol. I can hook my PC/Laptop up to my TV and share photos much better than any laptop screen or tablet, My phone does not need to be turned off so start up is a non issue. Even if start up was an issue its not a $600 issue, so as far as searches go my phone is the same or better being that it does not require wifi or a separate cell connection to pay for. As far as holding a smartphone like a book well I can read the screen just fine and just pass the phone to share it, Im trying to think how I would need to be looking at something at the same time as someone else im sure there is one I just cant think of it. I guess if they were to make one for around $250 it would be worth it to me maybe. I like toys and new tech lol so I wish I could come up with a decent reason to buy a tablet but it just seems like a big waste of money that apple slapped an I on and made popular. It seems that alot of apple fans buy whatever apple sells. Im not saying everybody who owns one is a apple fanboy just that this seems to be something cool to own and not something that gives any real added functionality. IMO they should name it I-waste lol.
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