#phablet

[prattlinpeach]

I've learned something about myself. And Happy Spring!

Ok, I sort of knew this, and it’s not always applicable, but…I do better blogging sitting up at a desk or a table than in bed with my laptop propped on my knees. I’ve said it, it’s out there. When I’m sitting in a chair, I’m more focused, when I am laying or lounging in bed, I don’t seem to focus as well and let my mind wander, which is a good thing for me, that’s where I get my inspirations…

[salty-software-engineer]

It really sucks that military, tactical, and similar stuff is so cool and frequently very useful because not only do their fandoms suck but they're also inherently tied to systems of oppression.

[blockchain-official]

People just don’t talk about phablets anymore. Is this because the phablet is dead? No! Infact every phone is a phablet these days so it is no longer something to remark on.

[tiamathh]

Ok ok much needed life update

1. Went on a spiritual trip, lots of stuff happened like bizarre stuff, feel lighter now but still strange

2. My phone broke down it's still broken rip so I'm using another old phone which kind of a phablet

3. Exam season + seasonal depression, the cold is NOT helping

4. Finally have the most mismatched friend grp, 4 more friends than I used to have that means I have 5 friends now yay

5. Exams simultaneously went so well and so bad lol

6. Retail therapy-ed my way through the last month at like this equivalent thing to a dollar store near me and now I have a bunch of useless stuff 😭😃

7. I'm still w my ex who's also my bf etc etc all that and he's being so weird lately, not in a bad way just in a ... Like he's too in love and it's a big discrepancy

8. I need to stop interning at schools bc then I leave and I get so sad

9. All my archive is gonna be posted now that I'm on break again lolol

10. I touched sm grass and am healing my inner child by doing fun things bc my roommate drags me out of bed lmao

Ok now that he life updates done how's everyone how are you guys doing give me life updates in your lives too 🤭🤭

[kittenquasar]

I have a Samsung that's a couple years old that Wikipedia calls a phablet due to its heft and scale (compared to new phones its average).

And let me tell you. What used to be this neat, if a little cumbersome device has become larger in my hands.

Or rather, my hands have got smaller. Thinner fingers, palms, fingernails and smoother skin.

This dang thing now slides out of my grip almost daily, and it's gotten to the point that I can't reliably use 1 hand all the time.

Estrogen is so surreal sometimes. Who's phone is this? These hands are mine but the phone is clearly meant for someone else.

[doberbutts]

I know a lot of people like to hate on phablets but having a larger phone like the Note series has actually been phenominal for me and my hand tremor because there's more margin for error when I use it

[theriverbeyond]

gideon nav modern AU where she uses a phablet (two handed mobile phone, if you will). is this anything

[mayakern]

Hi! Has anyone altered your skirts like professionally? Any advice? I was in between sizes and ordered up to be safe. But now if I put anything into the beautiful pockets (like my 2 switchs and my phablet and my kindle) it falls down! (I can fit all that in the pockets but I can't even put just my keys in it without them falling off) so I clearly should not have sized up. So I wanted to go and get them altered by a professional place but don't want to mess them up.... any suggestions? I also don't want the pockets to end up out of place. Thank you for your time! I ordered more today in the right size but still want my other ones too! Lol.

i can't speak on professional altering since i've personally never had it done to any of our skirts or know of anyone who has, but i will say that it's probably a semi-expensive option. for something cheaper and simpler, i would recommend waistband tighteners!

[waycaseuk]

The **evolution of the iPhone** since its introduction in 2007 has been a defining journey in the world of smartphones, with significant advancements in design, performance, and features. Here's a brief overview of key milestones in iPhone evolution:

### 1. **iPhone (2007)**

- **Notable Features**: 3.5" touchscreen, 2 MP camera, 4GB/8GB storage.

- **Innovation**: The first touchscreen-only smartphone, removing the physical keyboard seen in other phones at the time. It introduced multi-touch technology and mobile internet.

### 2. **iPhone 3G (2008)**

- **Notable Features**: 3G network support, App Store.

- **Innovation**: Faster internet browsing with 3G connectivity and the launch of the App Store, which opened the door to third-party apps.

### 3. **iPhone 3GS (2009)**

- **Notable Features**: Faster processor, video recording, voice control.

- **Innovation**: Significant speed improvements ("S" stands for speed) and better camera capabilities, including video recording.

### 4. **iPhone 4 (2010)**

- **Notable Features**: Retina Display, FaceTime, 5 MP camera, glass design.

- **Innovation**: A major redesign with a stainless steel frame and glass front/back, and the introduction of the Retina Display, which had higher pixel density for crisper visuals.

### 5. **iPhone 4S (2011)**

- **Notable Features**: Siri, 8 MP camera, A5 chip.

- **Innovation**: Siri, the first virtual assistant on an iPhone, was introduced, along with significant camera and processor upgrades.

### 6. **iPhone 5 (2012)**

- **Notable Features**: 4" display, Lightning connector, LTE support.

- **Innovation**: The iPhone grew in size to a 4-inch screen and introduced the Lightning connector, replacing the 30-pin dock.

### 7. **iPhone 5S & 5C (2013)**

- **Notable Features (5S)**: Touch ID, 64-bit architecture.

- **Notable Features (5C)**: Colorful plastic body.

- **Innovation**: The iPhone 5S brought Touch ID for fingerprint authentication and a powerful 64-bit A7 chip. The 5C was a more affordable model with colorful designs.

### 8. **iPhone 6 & 6 Plus (2014)**

- **Notable Features**: 4.7" & 5.5" displays, Apple Pay.

- **Innovation**: Apple entered the "phablet" market with larger displays, along with introducing Apple Pay, the company's mobile payment system.

### 9. **iPhone 6S & 6S Plus (2015)**

- **Notable Features**: 3D Touch, 12 MP camera, 4K video.

- **Innovation**: The introduction of 3D Touch, which allowed the screen to detect varying levels of pressure, creating new ways to interact with the phone.

### 10. **iPhone SE (2016)**

- **Notable Features**: 4" screen, A9 chip (same as iPhone 6S).

- **Innovation**: A smaller, more affordable model, resembling the iPhone 5S but with the internal power of the iPhone 6S.

### 11. **iPhone 7 & 7 Plus (2016)**

- **Notable Features**: Dual cameras (7 Plus), no headphone jack, water resistance.

- **Innovation**: The removal of the headphone jack was controversial, and Apple also introduced dual cameras on the 7 Plus for improved zoom and portrait photography.

### 12. **iPhone 8 & 8 Plus (2017)**

- **Notable Features**: Wireless charging, glass back, True Tone display.

- **Innovation**: While similar to the iPhone 7, the 8 series introduced wireless charging through the glass back and enhanced display technology with True Tone.

### 13. **iPhone X (2017)**

- **Notable Features**: Edge-to-edge OLED display, Face ID, no home button.

- **Innovation**: A radical redesign that removed the home button and Touch ID, replacing it with Face ID, Apple’s facial recognition technology. It also introduced the first OLED display in an iPhone.

### 14. **iPhone XS, XS Max, & XR (2018)**

- **Notable Features**: Larger OLED display (XS Max), Liquid Retina display (XR), A12 chip.

- **Innovation**: The XS Max brought a massive 6.5" screen, while the XR offered a more affordable option with an LCD display but the same powerful internals.

### 15. **iPhone 11, 11 Pro, & 11 Pro Max (2019)**

- **Notable Features**: Ultra-wide camera, night mode, A13 chip.

- **Innovation**: A triple-camera system on the Pro models enhanced photography, including better low-light performance with night mode.

### 16. **iPhone SE (2nd Gen) (2020)**

- **Notable Features**: A13 chip, 4.7" display, Touch ID.

- **Innovation**: Like the original SE, this model combined older iPhone design (resembling the iPhone 8) with powerful internals from newer models, offering a budget-friendly option.

### 17. **iPhone 12 Mini, 12, 12 Pro, & 12 Pro Max (2020)**

- **Notable Features**: 5G support, MagSafe, Ceramic Shield.

- **Innovation**: The iPhone 12 series introduced 5G connectivity and the MagSafe system for attaching accessories. Ceramic Shield provided increased drop protection.

### 18. **iPhone 13 Mini, 13, 13 Pro, & 13 Pro Max (2021)**

- **Notable Features**: Smaller notch, ProMotion 120Hz display (Pro models), Cinematic Mode.

- **Innovation**: Focused on camera improvements, including Cinematic Mode for video recording, and higher refresh rate displays on the Pro models for smoother performance.

### 19. **iPhone SE (3rd Gen) (2022)**

- **Notable Features**: A15 chip, 5G, improved battery life.

- **Innovation**: Continuation of the budget-friendly SE line with more powerful internals.

### 20. **iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, & 14 Pro Max (2022)**

- **Notable Features**: Dynamic Island (Pro models), 48 MP camera (Pro), Always-On Display (Pro), satellite SOS.

- **Innovation**: The Pro models introduced the Dynamic Island, a new interactive notification area, along with the powerful 48 MP main camera and satellite communication for emergencies.

### 21. **iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, & 15 Pro Max (2023)**

- **Notable Features**: USB-C port, A17 Pro chip, Action Button (Pro models).

- **Innovation**: The transition from Lightning to USB-C for universal charging, along with enhanced performance and camera upgrades.

The iPhone's journey reflects major technological strides and design shifts, focusing on improving usability, camera quality, and processing power with each iteration.

[pumpkinland]

i understand why it's called a phablet now. my tablets screen is only slightly bigger than my phones

[doctorjuvenile]

so for starters I'm usually 10 years late to playing AAA games so I'm often a few beats behind pop cultural moments

but anyways, I bought Far Cry 4 at the only video rental store in my town, and I'm loving it. I have never played a Far Cry before. and in many ways I think playing this game (which takes place in 2015) in the year 2024 is really timely

In general I've been pretty nostalgic and wistful about the late 00s~2010s, obviously while we were in it we didn't like it, but it sure seems like simple times compared to now (covid broke something we can't fix)

(also even though i'm canadian, i also often refer to this as the obama-era because his administration overlaps completely with when i was 12~20 years old, so my teen years. again, simpler times)

ANYWAYS getting back to FC4, you play the game and you hear references to "President Obama," Kanye's twitter, Dennis Rodham's visit to North Korea, etc.

The thing about being at the close of 2024 now is that we are halfway through this very-uncertain-and-tense decade, and the 2010s are still obviously modern and recent in our thoughts (unless you happen to be very young rn). I'm like the same age as Ajay as I play this, and I remember the entire decade very well. Technology had gotten pretty advanced -- in-game there are loot items like phablets, cryptocurrency drives, etc and on a technical level the game still looks very good imo. The only thing that dates it, as with any media that came before 2019, is the fact that it came out before covid.

idk why i'm writing this post out i just have like thoughts to put down on paper I guess. i'm very impressed with the game thus far and am excited for the rest (i also have been spoiled about how everyone starts degenerating; i did immediately go for the secret ending when i began, after all). and a little 2010s nostalgia brainrot.

[faction-art]

Words, and pictures : Eksovichea Tito Hak

Nostalgic for the Pacemaker? Well this is one instance where stuff has actually gotten way better since, only most people didn't actually notice, or knew of the origin context to appreciate it. I remember one time how Pioneer fanboys used to talk smack on Tonium's 'Pacemaker' DJ device all the time, saying that it will never replace professional CDJ's. To which I thought, 'no shit', but that wasn't the point of the Pacemaker DJ device. What the Pacemaker device essentially did, was take the dedicated two turntable metaphor DJ setup, and condense it into a pocket sized device that pretty much allowed you to create fully professional sounding DJ sets, anywhere, and anytime. It had a battery that allowed it to run for 3 hours without mains power ( the average length of a DJ set), that allowed you to potentially bang out a fully professional sounding DJ set using it, but despite what the pocket sized DJ device could do, those that feared it would constantly say it was 'nothing but a toy' that will never replace CDJ's. It was never meant to, but if the kids wanted badly enough to party, they would simply use what ever means they had that allowed them to knock out professional sounding DJ sets, just like back in the day when someone thought using vinyl turntable to beat match records together to create a seamless DJ set was a good idea, although the technics turntables weren't actually specifically designed for that purpose, but Tonium's Pacemaker DJ device is. Back in the day when raves, house parties, and illegal warehouse parties were happening, DJ's could have only dreamed of something like the Pacemaker DJ device, since there's no heavy records to carry where it's 120GB was ample to store thousands of records worth of tunes, and there were no heavy vinyl turntables to carry/transport either, meaning that it your illegal shin dig got busted, you could be out of there in no time with your pocket sized DJ device. It had built in stereo headphone monitors that were independent of the stereo line outputs too. Admittedly it did take somewhat of a learning curve to become accustomed to it, but most enthusiastic users would have been able to bang out a professional sounding DJ set on it within the hour of having hands on with it, and sure, it was a little more fiddly to use that a CDJ, or vinyl turntables, which for those that went out, and ordered one as a pre-release device was something that wasn't an issue, and/or they didn't really give a crap about if you were one of those enthused people that actually bought one back then. Sure, it was never going to replace CDJ's, but like I sad, that wasn't the point.

Eventually Tonium's Pacemaker DJ device was then officially, and exclusively brought to the Blackberry Playbook, for the Pacemaker DJ project to finally come to close in its final form on the final Blackberry OS device before they completely switched to running Android on Blackberry devices instead. (I nearly forgot that the Pacemaker DJ app saw its final place exclusively on the IPad).

Since then though, it seems Pioneer have made an official free mobile DJ app for both Android, and iOS (that doesn't require a paid subscription to use!) that is essentially close to what the final form of what the Pacemaker DJ device should have become, where the software and interface is now highly optimised to a pocket sized phablet device that everyone (nearly everyone) owns. It's also possible to use Pioneer's WeDJ app with an external DJ controller too, which I'm guessing Pioneer would more than likely hope you would use one of their Pioneer DJ controllers with.

[istherewifiinhell]

I must not pick up my stupid fucking phablet. Picking up the brick phone is the wrist killer. The awkward and heavy phone is the RSI causer that brings total obliteration. I will face my big dumb phone. I will permit the instict to pick it up pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the want to hold it has gone there will be nothing. Only the phone resting safely on a flat surface so I can interact with it will remain...

[37q]

kinda crazy how large a role poorly made user-antagonistic mobile media & web interface design played in the conception of the phablet

[streamlink-boutique]

Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 4G Phablet

[kdo-arts345]

Week 7: Textbook - Chapter 1 & 2

Title: “Editorial Design Digital And Print” by Cath Caldwell & Yolanda Zapaterra

What stood out to me in these chapters is the emphasis on designing for mobile, specifically tablets. Print isn’t dead but it is changing. It introduced a new term to me — Phablet. I have never heard that said out loud. They define it as a tablet with phone qualities. Isn’t that just a tablet? Anyways, I find this shift towards mobile screens to be true in my own life too. Between my iPad or laptop for reading texts, I tend to reach for my iPad. There is just something about the touch screen I find more tactile and appealing. These chapters detail how designers have to consider interactivity when designing too. For example, the recipe for the pie pictured comes up when it is tapped on.

I thought the handling of the drop cap (right) was clever. I like that it mimics the jacket. When designs do subtle symmetry like this, it is my favorite thing. Definitely something I’d like to reference in a future design.