Larger Mobile Devices

Once upon a time, in the era of using a desktop as your personal computer and looking to “luggables” if you needed portability, mobility was a luxury, if not a novelty. In stark contrast, today’s mobile devices can be so small that the likelihood of misplacing your computing device is a real and ongoing concern. Furthermore, the physical size of the smaller devices is not conducive to comfortable computing.

When a larger screen and more convenient controls are desired, there are two popular solutions: laptops/netbooks and tablets. These two broad families of larger mobile devices are similar in their portability but differ in other aspects. For instance, you can use a laptop when a real keyboard, desktop-class operating ...

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