nakedpeanut
Expert Member
So my n97 has started dying on me this year..
Jan - My unlock mechanism broke off, so gotto slide the phone open to unlock it
March - Speaker went, so if I phone, I've gotto use the load speaker, which isn't all to pleasant..
May - Screen started acting up funny colored lines etc
June - Screen is blank.. but i can still call and receive calls
So sometime last weak I promptly order a SGS 2, can't wait for it to arrive, so for the interim, I popped into Vodaworld and bought myself an el cheapo Nokia 1618.
I gotto say for the R200 and something bucks I spent on the thing, I'm damn impressed. Yes it can't surf the web, or create a wi-fi hotspot or take pictures, but so what.. It can phone, sms, play radio, has an alarm clock and a torch lol!
So it got me thinking whats with the move to an all in one device? It seems as if laptops are becoming more tablet like (or is it the other way around looking at asus), and cellphones are getting bigger (from the move to tiny only a few years ago?).
It's confusing yet all the uses / practical applications for each device makes sense in some absurd way. But do the costs really justify it?
At the moment you have to but a laptop if you want to be mobile and work, since on tablet and cellphone, it's not too practical (depends on task of course, lets say programming) but you can't quite call on laptop that easily, so you still need your cellphone. Admittedly I'm sure what you neeed a tablet for, but I imagine it to be quite useful for presenting a slide show or viewing docs that you don't really need to edit because of the screen size.. although a laptop would be capable of this as well.
So do we really need to spend 5k on a phone, 5k on a tablet and another 5k on a laptop? I like that asus idea, seems to merge two of the worlds quite well.
So why not have a device like a phone that has the memory, GPU and CPU power needed, for most things like the SGS 2, that can clip into a tablet sized screen, that can then clip into a keyboard and then you got a laptop.
Jan - My unlock mechanism broke off, so gotto slide the phone open to unlock it
March - Speaker went, so if I phone, I've gotto use the load speaker, which isn't all to pleasant..
May - Screen started acting up funny colored lines etc
June - Screen is blank.. but i can still call and receive calls
So sometime last weak I promptly order a SGS 2, can't wait for it to arrive, so for the interim, I popped into Vodaworld and bought myself an el cheapo Nokia 1618.
I gotto say for the R200 and something bucks I spent on the thing, I'm damn impressed. Yes it can't surf the web, or create a wi-fi hotspot or take pictures, but so what.. It can phone, sms, play radio, has an alarm clock and a torch lol!
So it got me thinking whats with the move to an all in one device? It seems as if laptops are becoming more tablet like (or is it the other way around looking at asus), and cellphones are getting bigger (from the move to tiny only a few years ago?).
It's confusing yet all the uses / practical applications for each device makes sense in some absurd way. But do the costs really justify it?
At the moment you have to but a laptop if you want to be mobile and work, since on tablet and cellphone, it's not too practical (depends on task of course, lets say programming) but you can't quite call on laptop that easily, so you still need your cellphone. Admittedly I'm sure what you neeed a tablet for, but I imagine it to be quite useful for presenting a slide show or viewing docs that you don't really need to edit because of the screen size.. although a laptop would be capable of this as well.
So do we really need to spend 5k on a phone, 5k on a tablet and another 5k on a laptop? I like that asus idea, seems to merge two of the worlds quite well.
So why not have a device like a phone that has the memory, GPU and CPU power needed, for most things like the SGS 2, that can clip into a tablet sized screen, that can then clip into a keyboard and then you got a laptop.