Annual next device speculation!

[patgolfneb]

I think phone and tablet size preferences are related to whether you prefer one handed operation and eyesight possibility. You can hold I phones one handed and make entries with the same hand, I have small hands make doing that on my Rezound tough. I think gps, bluetooth, nfc, ir, wi fi, one camera will become standard for consumer 7 inch tablets. I think 10+ will add a second camera and cell and upgraded file sharing abilities for businesses. I suspect neither will have great speakers since streaming to your car, stereo, or external speakers will be the choice for those who make this a priority. I have a 7 inch and 10 inch tablets and a 17 inch laptop. The laptop and 10 inch rarely leave home. I have no idea if I am typical? Maybe this is why I find all the cameras superfluous. I have taken a few pictures with my phone but none with my tablet. Are cameras now so cheap that it just doesn't matter? Sometimes it seems like we are adopting tech willingly that eventually could allow business and governments absolute control, kind of a red guard to the max. Oh well OT.

[bobstro]

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Sun_Cat wrote:

[...] I wish I could tether my wi-fi-only 7-inch tablet to the phone for real browsing, news reading, etc., when I don't have wi-fi, but the service doesn't permit it. 

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I have seriously considered going with one of the mobile wifi hotspots from my cell carrier (Verizon), which would let me upgrade between 3G, 4G and whatever's next without changing my other devices. That would allow all my "big" devices (NOOKs, laptop) to connect as needed to whatever the latest high speed network is.

My phone could then be a fairly basic feature phone. I'd need voice, voicemail and texting on it. Battery life and daylight readability would be paramount. Anything else, just extras. It could also be small and get rid of the feeling that I'm carrying an iPad around on my belt or (worse) in my pocket.

[Omnigeek]

I like "appropriate" size for all my devices.  It's why I don't like the iPad -- too large to put in my pocket, too small to do large graphics work or spreadsheets.  Frankly, smartphones are getting too large for my tastes these days; I love the features on the Galaxy Nexus but I really don't want something that large:  the Nexus One was just about the perfect size IMO.  The display is large enough for the apps I want to run (compass, GPS navigation, Trapster, Flixster, Wunderground, Urban Spoon, etc.) but the phone itself is small enough to drop in a small side pocket or shirt pocket (I used to like my Motorola Razr when I didn't care to run ANY apps).

The Nooks are nice in that I can drop them into any notebook holder sized to carry a steno pad or medium-size office pad.  In fact, I use the freebie notebook covers to hold my Nooks on occasion -- the mCover hard shells have a nice easel on the back that slips into the pad holders and holds the Nook in place but allows me to pull it out when I want.

I can configure the Nexus One as a mobile hotspot so I do tether my Nook to it when I want to do quick websurfing or my MacBook Pro to it when I want to upload or download some real work -- but I would really like a larger Nook that would let me read magazines or digital comics more comfortably (I'm right on the borderline of having to admit I should use reading glasses).  A Nook the size of a letter or legal pad would also allow us to use existing portfolios the way I described above but be much more conducive to larger documents.

[roustabout]

Keri writes "4.3-inch  is the new small"

I understand that Donald Trump has that beaten.  

 Wait, what are we talking about in this thread?  I think I completely misunderstood the subject line.  All too easy to confuse speculum with speculation...

[keriflur]

Eeeeew.

[gb18]

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/kindle-rumors-imply-nook/748397

[flyingtoastr Scribe]

Please for the love of all that is good in the world don't make me sell smartphones. It's hard enough teaching people how to use a relatively stripped down tablet.

[li-kris]

Has there been any new info on the windows surface device? I wonder if it will be sufficent for reading, or if it's more so for business tasks.

[bobstro]

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flyingtoastr wrote:

Please for the love of all that is good in the world don't make me sell smartphones. It's hard enough teaching people how to use a relatively stripped down tablet.

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We'll put an RPN calculator on it, just for you!

[TnTexas]

Why the heck would B&N want to release a smartphone? Amazon I can see. They've got their fingers into ev.ery.thing. But B&N? Why? Makes no sense at all to me.