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Is it a rule imposed by the phone carriers, who want you to buy a different plan with no voice service if you have a tablet? It can't be the phone makers since the are so many. It can't be Android software licenses since Apple seems affected too. I'd be pretty interested in a tablet sized phone. But they seem to have maxed out in the current tall skinny format that is not really big enough for some things. Just wondering.

Edit: aha, I managed to get rid of the stupid photo. Thanks for the help.

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[โ€“] ekky@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have no clue why you had to include an image, but it appears you broke rule 6 in doing so.

I haven't owned many tablets so far, but can't you get some tablets with SIM-slots? What would prevent one from just using such a tablet as a phone?

[โ€“] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

It's a bit arbitrary, but I have 7" tablets, so that seems to be more or less the cutoff point between tablets and phone. And the fact that phones always come with SIM capability, whereas you can have "WiFi" variants of tablets, implying no mobile connectivity. I still wonder why you would want a 7" device and also insist that a manufacturer call it "phone". To me, a defining (and desirable) feature of a phone is that it fits comfortably in one hand as well as in a trouser pocket.

I find it much more lamentable that phones become bigger and bigger on average, making them more awkward to handle single-handed.