Subject | Re: Google Copying Apple.....Almost as bad as Samsung |
From | Lloyd E Parsons |
Date | 06/29/2014 18:40 (06/29/2014 11:40) |
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Harry Mudd the Anti-FanboySorry you're having to go through dialysis, that isn't pleasant at all. A late, very good friend of mine was on it 3 days a week and they wanted him to start doing 4 days. That's when he said to hell with it, it is time to check out. It took so much out of him that he couldn't do much of anything on the 3 day a week schedule, a 4th day would have meant his life was dialysis and recovering from it and nothing else.
On 6/29/2014 12:18 PM, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:GaryHarry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
On 2014-06-29 16:12:35 +0000, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy said:On 6/29/2014 12:03 PM, Lloyd E Parsons wrote: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'!! :)On 2014-06-29 15:54:44 +0000, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy said: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 aOn 6/29/2014 11:40 AM, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy wrote:Other than the size issue, that is just bullshit.On 6/29/2014 11:15 AM, KDT wrote: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.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.
The ipdad with a VOIP app is little more than an also-ran phone.
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!! :)phablet<. The answer is patently "no" since the term is wasconinded with reference to a particular form factor/size class which the ipad mini doesn't fit into, period.
I suppose so...:)GaryHarry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
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.
I would never claim my Note 3 is an actual 'tablet' either if for no other reason than some things just aren't as easily viewable on it as with an actual tablet, no4r is the Note 3 as easily usable as a tablet.
The question that keeps me from pulling theGaryHarry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
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....
I hear ya... I'm actually considering an 8" tablet myself. Being on dialysis 3 times a week, I watch Netflix on my Note 3 for 4 hours or so while I'm sitting in chair undergoing in-center dialysis treatments, or using groundhog to read Usenet newsgroups, but a tablet would be much better suited for this.