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DISTRO<br />
03.08.13<br />
FORUM<br />
SWITCHED<br />
ON<br />
Unlike its anagrammatic predecessor,<br />
the 7-inch FonePad is one indivisible<br />
device that will <strong>com</strong>pete with a<br />
host of 7-inch tablets from Amazon,<br />
Samsung, Android tablet new<strong>com</strong>er<br />
HP and its parent’s earlier effort,<br />
the Google Nexus 7. However, while<br />
its screen size may be the same, the<br />
FonePad will include voice functionality,<br />
allowing anyone brave enough of<br />
heart and large enough of head to use<br />
it as they would a phone.<br />
At seven inches, the FonePad outsizes<br />
the 6.1-inch Ascend Mate introduced<br />
by Huawei at CES. That phone,<br />
in turn, displaced phone-size bragging<br />
We will<br />
likely see<br />
few people<br />
doing the<br />
cellular<br />
equivalent<br />
of carrying<br />
a boombox<br />
on their<br />
shoulders.<br />
rights from Samsung, which apparently<br />
is eager to reclaim the title. The<br />
purveyor of the Galaxy Note introduced<br />
the Galaxy Note 8.0. The closest<br />
<strong>com</strong>petitor in terms of size to Apple’s<br />
iPad mini, the newest Samsung<br />
offering stands to be<strong>com</strong>e the largest<br />
tablet to include voice capability.<br />
This <strong>pro</strong>vides a new twist on the definition<br />
of a “phablet,” one that springs<br />
from the tablet side rather than the<br />
phone side.<br />
Surely, just as the market for 5.5-<br />
inch handsets has been a relatively<br />
small part of the phone market, we<br />
will likely see few people doing the<br />
cellular equivalent of carrying a<br />
boombox on their shoulders. The answer<br />
to the question of why a <strong>com</strong>pany<br />
would put voice capability into<br />
a tablet so large is the same as to<br />
why you would put a Netflix app on a<br />
phone. It may not be ideal in terms of<br />
an optimal scenario, but if it’s the one<br />
device at hand, why should one limit<br />
the functionality? This is particularly<br />
true as cellular chips be<strong>com</strong>e cheaper<br />
to integrate and headsets and speakerphones<br />
can always im<strong>pro</strong>ve the ergonomics<br />
of placing voice calls.<br />
If nothing else, the presence of<br />
an 8-inch tablet that can make voice<br />
calls makes a 5.5-inch phone that can<br />
do the same seem a lot more reasonable.<br />
And with LG apparently ready to<br />
put webOS on its televisions, we may<br />
be on the brink of the dubious era of<br />
the “phelevision.”
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