Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

TECH TALK

QUOTATION OF THE DAY (From NY Times)

"I do not know if anyone has been in this situation; in a time of hurt, at night after a few glasses of wine, you probably shouldn't get on your computer. But that is obviously what I did."

---Rebekah Brooks, on a love letter she wrote to a former newspaper deputy that was read aloud by the prosecution in her phone-hacking trial.

NY Times article: "Phone, Meet Tablet. That’s Phabulous."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/tec...

EXCERPTS:
===============================================
"The first tablets, like the original iPad and the Google Nexus 10, were 10 inches, great for watching movies and TV shows. But despite rocketing sales growth at first, most people found that a laptop with a keyboard is still better for getting work done..."

..... the smaller tablet was born ... For a brief halcyon period, sales of smaller tablets began to crush sales of 10-inch devices. ...Now, even those tablet sales have slowed. ... It seems that many of us come to the conclusion I’ve reached of late: I don’t want a smaller tablet. I want a bigger phone.

"Big phones may take some getting used to — they’re less pocketable and a little comical when used for actual talking — but they’re much more useful than small tablets for unifying your communications on one device. They’re always connected and more portable than a tablet, and the phone is already the device you’re using for texting, taking pictures and browsing the web. Why not a bigger screen for watching videos and reading email?

"... At the moment, the industry is still trying to figure out exactly what size phone makes sense, but the new norm in screen size keeps creeping up. Some phones are clearly considered or labeled “phablets..."
===================================================

I'm glad I haven't bought any little devise yet! The market still has to make up its mind!