Lloyd E Parsons
On 2014-06-29 16:12:35 +0000, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy said:

Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
On 6/29/2014 12:03 PM, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:

Gary
On 2014-06-29 15:54:44 +0000, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy said:

On 6/29/2014 11:40 AM, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy wrote:

On 6/29/2014 11:15 AM, KDT wrote:

So what do you call the Note 8? Why is it a phablet and an iPad Mini with cellular running a VoIP app not one?

Because the mini is a tablet first, and a phone second with a VOIP app, unlike the "ph" which comes first before "ablet" as with actual phablets. 'Phablet' is a label for a particular size range/form factor that the mini just doesn't fit into, period.

I should clarify: "ph" which comes first (just as phablets are phones first before ) before "ablet"(or as in a t"ablet" >second<) as with actual phablets. The phonetic construct of the word 'phablet' is unique to a particular form factor classs the mini does not fit into , no way, no how.

The ipdad with a VOIP app is little more than an also-ran phone.

Other than the size issue, that is just bullshit.

VOIP apps are just phone software to use your data (cell or home internet) instead of the cell voice signals. In all other ways it is just a phone that makes and receives calls and can do texts. So while from a practical standpoint it would be awkward to use a tablet, there is no difference in the end result of what a phone is all about.

Hell, the 'smartphone' you have is using an 'app' to interface you to the cell voice circuitry, just as a VOIP app is doing to use cell data to accomplish the same end result.

Dance around that a bit!! :)

Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
You said it best -"other than the size issue". The point isn't whether an ipad with a VOIP app is or isn't a phone, obviously it is a phone. It's about whether or not it can rightly be called a

Gary
phablet<. The answer is patently "no" since the term is was

Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
coninded with reference to a particular form factor/size class which the ipad mini doesn't fit into, period.

Lloyd E Parsons
while I wouldn't use the iPad mini as a phone in most cases, it does fit in my cargo pants pocket just fine. So I guess I could call it a 'phat phablet'!! :)

Actually I'm considering a new iPad with cell because of the GPS. As I get older the screen on the phone becomes more of an issue out on the golf course when I try to use the golf gps app I have on it. Strictly a reading thing.

trigger is do I want a new Mini or a full size iPad. From purely using on the golf course, the mini makes more sense, but I tend to use a full size tablet everywhere else, hence the quandry....