Re: [iPad] Re: Adv/Disadvantages of having an iPhone vs Android phone with iPad? + Apple TV?

 

iPhone and Android phones are handheld PCs to many.


Their touch screens and apps like Google Star Maps and games that are touch only ensure many people use them as HandHeld computers as well as phones.  Try Google Star Maps on a PC or try any touch game or music program on a PC and you see why as handheld computers they are amazing. To those people a tablet is just halfway between a Handheld Computer and a laptop with the laptop losing for demanding a keyboard which is why Win8/9 convertibles will do 'ok' as long as they are so friendly to non keyboard users they are not crippled if users don't bring them sometimes.

Me I am 60 / 40 use 60% as phone and 40% as handheld computer.

But I see why young people and extremely efficient adults prefer texting to phone calls. Much more efficient than phone calls in many scenarios and only way I communicate with 30 year old and younger types and efficient people. Texting is soo efficient because it can be answered seconds or hours later and there is written archives compared to voice where there is not.

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Jerry Elkins <jreusa@gmail.com> wrote:
 

The iPhone is after all a PHONE.  That is what it's for.  Yes it does other things.  Perhaps you need a flip without the required data.  iPad does it all on a screen you can see unless you are thirty something.  Yes there is a app so the iPad can make calls.  Do you use your car as a pickup truck?  Some try.  LOL.


iPad was not designed to replace your MacBook or your Windows PC.  It was designed to be portable in a purse or briefcase.  And it excels there.

It can't and never will do all things for everyone.  But I sure like mine.  I still use my MacBook Air daily.  Coleen uses her iMac daily.  

Cheers.

 Jerry R. Elkins
LWRV Community
Whitney, Tx  76692

On May 26, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tonya wrote:

 

I'd like to read that article.
Imagine... using a telephone for voice communication !
That would be like using an electric range to cook food ! 
 
 
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Tony
Date: 5/26/2012 3:17:58 PM
Subject: [iPad] Re: Adv/Disadvantages of having an iPhone vs Android phone with iPad? + Apple TV?
 
I read a short article on exactly that recently. Voice is becoming less and less used.
 
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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> > My one hiccup with the iPhone was the inflexibility to actually control phone features like call block.  When iPhone allows true blocking, versus setting up unwanted numbers with a quiet (silent) ringtone, I might come back.
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> I don't know how common my situation is, but of all the many functions an iPhone can perform, the LEAST-used one is talking to other people by voice.
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> Most identified limitations of the iPhone as a voice telephone are therefore simply irrelevant to me. I know some others have also said this, but I don't know how wide-spread it is.
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