Solved! Tablet AND smartphone? Why?

[yogman]

Hello! (I don't know if this is the right category to post this question, but it seems to kind of fit.)

I have been wanting to get an android tablet for while, but then a important question hit me....

Is there any point in having a tablet AND a smartphone?

I am planning on getting an android smartphone sometime this year or early next, and I just wanted to know if there was any point in having a tablet as well as a smartphone.

I am just trying to see if there is any point having both because I really want a tablet, but if it would be redundant with a smartphone, I guess I might save my money.

So, is there any advantage or use in having both?

Please reply!!

Thanks!!

--- Yogman

P.S. I posted this question in the smartphone section as well, I am just trying to get a better and different answers.

 

[yogman]

Since you don't have smartphone or a tablet yet, I recommend going with the smartphone 1st. From there you can decide if you want to buy a tablet as well.

Think of a tablet as a larger phone but without the ability to make phone calls. Skype is excluded though, 'cause while you do Skype-to-Skype and Skype-to-phones (for a fee), people cannot contact you from their cellphone to your Skype account. Actually they could with a program called OpenSky (not free) installed on their smartphone, but I don't know what happened to that program. You also can use Skype to make emergency phone calls as well. Of course, don't forget that people still use landline phone like businesses and regular people. While many people have cellphones, not all of them are smartphones.

So go get an Android phone or an iPhone. You can use it to play games, read books, watch videos, surf the web, etc. Oh yeah, I forget, you can make phone calls with them too (I think). If you find doing such things on a small screen it a bit too much of any annoyance or it strains your eyes, then that is the point where you start considering if buying a tablet is worth it.

Remember if you are going to buy a tablet and bring it with you everywhere you go, then it is another thing you would be carrying around. Theft and misplacement should be something you need to think about.

Thank you very much for your answer! Out of most of the post, I think this is one of the better answers!

 

[yogman]

^+1 on the productivity part apart from if your get a Intel base tablet with attachable keyboard.

May be a dumb phone and a tablet, if you want to save some money. But If you have the money, there is nothing that can stop you from getting a smart phone and a tablet.

Don't get both smartphone and tablet if you have to save money for both of them and your reason for getting them is because many people have got one. That is what I will classify as buying for the wrong reason.

Are you going to be moving (walk, jog, bike?) and using the device when you are looking at and interacting with the screen? If you are, then the screen on a tablet is too large and will be clumpsy as well as occupy too much of your view that you cannot nevigate. You need a smartphone.

Of course, you can alway stop walking, jogging, biking a and use the tablet to do your thing first. But that is the secrafice on mobility you need to make.

But if you are out of home, and most of the time is travelling in transport, at office, waiting in a transit, airport etc, then get a tablet.

Thank you for your help, and I will take your point of view into consideration! Still not absolutely sure what I will do in the end, but these posts have been really helpful!

 

[leandrodafontoura]

If you want a portable computer, you dont need a tablet, you need a notebook, thats for both indoors and outdoors.

I think a a tablet is great for taking notes, as in a lecture. You cant do that on a smartphone....well you can, but not that fast/great

If you have a tablet, you still NEED a smartphone. If you have a smartphone, than you have a smartphone. You only need a tablet if you need a tablet, it has nothing to do with phones.

 

[jaguarskx]

You also can use Skype to make emergency phone calls as well.

TYPO !!!!

I meant to write "You also cannot use Skype to make emergency phone calls as well."

 

[jobs4mvr]

I am a bit surprised that most people are such a black and white thinkers - you can have either this, or you can have that - that's it? Come on people, you can do better than that!

Most don't seem to feel the need to be able to have both in the same device - i.e., a Smartphone and a tablet in one. Ever since I had my first Smartphone (the G1), I have always felt that it is so inconvenient and painful to carry a phone to make calls and a tablet with a larger screen a little larger (and definitely not one of those 10" monstrosities) than the typical 4"/5" smartphones out there, and also having to tether the two in order to do something when you away from Wi-Fi...

So, after some research and hunting, I went out and bought myself a "ViewSonic Viewpad 7," a 7"-UNLOCKED-GSM-Phone-cum-Tablet for LESS THAN $300!

It's been over 6 months now, and have had no problems with it - and have turned heads wherever I go. Yes, I cannot hold it against my ear like a traditional phone, but then I have a "Schosche" BlueTooth with a pair of earpieces fitting into both ears, clear audio, it's awesome. Yes, I can get internet whenever and wherever I am (though the connection is "E" most of the time) without the pain of tethering. Also, do not have to hold the phone against my head (cancerous or not, I do not know, but why take a chance when you can avoid it, I am thinking...).

- It is not the best (but again, there are not many others out there), but is sufficiently equipped for phone calls and my browsing needs.
- Do not have to tether.
- Fits into my pant pockets!
- Is NOT a 10" device.