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Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name by api on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:55PM (#11152752)
> there are some people who, because of their unusual needs, have a bigger more powerful one.

Unusual needs like being able to see a lot of text at once, type things longer than a paragraph, multitask, use more than one app in a work flow, and run real software?

I doubt it... unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices. Right now to believe that mobile is "the future" of everything requires one to believe that most people have nothing to say beyond one-liners and selfies and that the only purpose of computing is to interact with canned services. That might be true for a subset of the market but I think it's a smaller subset than some do.

Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name by dragonwriter on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:03PM (#11152828)
> unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices.

Phones already have dockable desktop capability (that is, support for desktop-style output via appropriate cables that support HDMI, and support for desktop-style input via Bluetooth keyboard/mouse.)

Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name by clumsysmurf on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:05PM (#11152847)
> I doubt it... unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices.

Already here, its only going to get better.

http://bgr.com/2016/02/21/hp-elite-x3-review-pt-1-preview/

Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name by igravious on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:59PM (#11153331)
Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name by ask5 on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:54PM (#11153731)
Someone has already predicted that it will fail ...

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/21/hp-announces-yet-another-mo...