Are phablet users mentally ill?

[disappoint]

6 inch phone though, now that's fuckin stoopit. Mofos compeinsatan cause of a small cock like people who drive sports cars and shit.

Anyone else been drinkin frozen Stoli or is it just me?

 

[BudAshes]

6 inch phone though, now that's fuckin stoopit. Mofos compeinsatan cause of a small cock like people who drive sports cars and shit.

Anyone else been drinkin frozen Stoli or is it just me?

No stoli, but I seem to keep being slowly pulled into the bright blue depths of your avatar.

 

[disappoint]

No stoli, but I seem to keep being slowly pulled into the bright blue depths of your avatar.

im in ur head givin u infos an shit

 

[_Rick_]

I've been using 5"-class devices since 2009. They're the best.
I also use a separate phone with an actual keypad alongside it.
The 5" device replaces a laptop or a larger tablet for me, and is ideal because it fits into a jacket or coat pocket.
Anything bigger would require an additional bag, and I'm not going to put up with that. so the 5-6" class is the maximum I can tag along with zero encumbrance.

The people who don't use them, are the real madmen. They run around all day with nerdy bag-packs with their laptop inside, or have to squint at the tiny screens of their oh-so-smart-phones. I'm so happy that recently that form factor has finally taken off.

Also, remember, back in the 80s, when people had these little notepads? That's exactly the same form factor, for exactly the same reason. As big as you can carry around, without having to worry, that you're actually carrying something around. You must be blind to not see this.

In closing: Ban OP!

 

[lxskllr]

What irritates me is it's pushing the standard for *all* phones up. There aren't many choices for a <5" phone. Some people need big devices, and some small, but only the former is getting what they want.

 

[_Rick_]

What irritates me is it's pushing the standard for *all* phones up. There aren't many choices for a <5" phone. Some people need big devices, and some small, but only the former is getting what they want.

get one of these, then, and stop worrying:

 

[lxskllr]

get one of these, then, and stop worrying:

Cause that does everything a smart phone does, right?

 

[_Rick_]

Cause that does everything a smart phone does, right?

I don't get the point of compromising for a small smart phone.
A smart phone works well with a big screen, because you need that to have a workable keyboard and actually see what you're doing on screen, as well as for information presentation. A smaller screen smartphone is a worse smartphone at the key smartphone metric.
Since being slightly smaller makes the phone no less portable, there's no reason to make them slightly smaller.
If size truly matters, then a smartphone is just pointless, and you should go with a minimalist phone instead. I'd say you should actually own both types of devices, so you can take with you what you need.

But smallish smartphones are just useless. Their users must be mentally ill!

Edit: and actually, my tiny Nokia C5-00 has 3G, a webbrowser, a mail app GPS, etc, etc, etc. And I really wish it hadn't because all that complexity means you're more likely to encounter a software glitch that will render the phone uselses at even being a phone. Still, better Series60 than Android, iOS or Windows Phone...

 

[Ichinisan]

Is there a legitimate psychiatric disorder attributable to thinking a 6-inch phone is good? Like people who eat rocks or cut off their own limbs?

What about folks with poor eyesight?

 

[OverVolt]

Use a dumb phone and a tablet problem solved.

 

[Rakehellion]

So phablets are for hyperopic goliaths, not normal people.

A big phone still can't do as much as a laptop as far as content creation, so it's just reduced convenience with no benefit.

 

[OverVolt]

So phablets are for hyperopic goliaths, not normal people.

A big phone still can't do as much as a laptop as far as content creation, so it's just reduced convenience with no benefit.

It does everything, very poorly, for alot of money.

 

[Kaido]

I used to think phablets were stupid, but with the majority of people using their phones instead of their computers, it makes since because it's used more often - why not have a bigger screen?

 

[Paratus]

Phablets are better than side-talking with the Nokia N-gage

Barely....

 

[_Rick_]

reduced convenience with no benefit.

Wat? I'll repeat it for you: It's the maximum size that's omniportable without a bag, so it's the best thing you always have on yourself.
For content creation, it will still do a decent job, if you plug in an external screen, a BT keyboard and go to town. Especially with pico-projectors, you can have a wicked compact mobile desktop replacement.

But, it's in no way worse than a smart phone, and better in many ways. So it wins there.
It wins in portability against laptops and bigger tablets, another win.
It's the perfect size for note taking - boom, look at those wins coming in.

Though frankly, without a stylus, it's less useful.

Small touchscreen phones on the other hand are for people with tiny little fingers who love to hold things right up to their eye (or love scrolling through paragraphs three words wide) while being unable to do anything with their device, because the screen is too bloody small to do more than type out an SMS. They're the ultimate status symbol, flashy utterly useless, and hugely expensive, while being worse in every metric than the usefully sized counterpart.

 

[PingviN]

OP has tiny, girly hands?

 

[disappoint]

OP has tiny, girly hands?

 

[Rakehellion]

omniportable

Sure, it fits everywhere but your pocket. Or your hand.

It's the perfect size for note taking

Explain how a physically larger phone has more storage space for text.

Small touchscreen phones on the other hand are for people with tiny little fingers who love to hold things right up to their eye

If you have a smaller screen farther from your face, you've just eliminated all advantages of having a larger screen.

 

[iwajabitw]

6" Nokia Lumia 1520 here. I can do more on this on the go than I ever could with an iphone. Carrying a phone, tablet and laptop for bothersome. I run everything from this phablet, until its convenient to use the laptop. If I need a file, fire up team server and grab it from home server. 16gb onboard storage +64gb micro card. Can't beat it. And the 1080 screen plays premier league excellent on Saturdays I'm working.

 

[bigi]

I have 9 incher and use it actually. But it isn't always 9ner in size.

 

[mmntech]

I like a phone as big as my dick. It's ten inches long and a quarter inch thick. :sneaky:

 

[Gunbuster]

I'm still waiting for a roll out screen like the EFC Global. I'm sure Apple will "invent" it at some point down the road.

http://earthfinalconflict.wikia.com/wiki/Global

 

[Exterous]

No stoli, but I seem to keep being slowly pulled into the bright blue depths of your avatar.

Its a TRAP! That is an inverted color picture of Hope Solo! Pull back now!

 

[Eug]

Popular with people with purses.

 

[Blackjack200]

We don't need cell phone to live, but haters are going to hate.

This got me thinking about my first cell phone. I think it was around 2002 or so and I was 21. When I was younger I had this weird perception that things cost way more than they did. Like, I didn't realize that you could rent a room in a shithole apartment for a couple hundred dollars a month and get out of the house, I thought you needed tens of thousands of dollars or something.

Anyway, with the same mentality, it just never occurerd to me that a cell phone was something I could afford. One day my dad just got cell phones for everyone in the family (5) and explained how the family plan worked. I think it came out to like $25 per line. I remember that I didn't know what a text message was, and the first time my friend texted me I didn't know what to do.