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Originally Posted by Rebski View Post
Following on from my attempt at humorous sarcasm which stemmed from the multitude of such comments on the Dell 5” Streak culminating with the WSJ/Mossberg condemnation of it being the worst product of 2010 principally on account of its screen size; this is a much more coherent elucidation on the 4.5” screen form factor and it is interesting (to me at least) seeing the term MID used again.

http://www.pocketables.net/2011/05/i...-mid.html#more

I have also seen reference to this larger screen form factor as being a tablet-phone, or phone-tablet I can’t remember exactly.

I guess that once we can find an acceptable pigeon hole for boundary blurring devices the uptake will become more widespread?

Or maybe it takes a culture shock to eventually make such devices acceptable, I seem to recall that even the iPhone was initially castigated by many.
It's funny, but I think that the streak requires a moniker sufficient to justify its size and usage. For example, call it a phone and people will balk at the enormity. Call it a tablet and people will argue it far to expensive for a device so tiny. Even that Tab 7 came under waves of scrutiny for being labeled a tablet. Now, this is despite the amusing fact that modern brandname smartphones tend to cost more than their tablet counterparts despite their much smaller proportions.

The name of a category of device seems to set a certain expectation, and once set, mysteriously pacifies the general consumer.

It is as if people have very little imagination, and can only really see what's laid out in front of them -- then they start babbling it verbatim like a flock of mindless parrots.

I suspect that the Streak would do far better if it adopted an appropriate label, and featured a short run down of things its well suited for to reinforce that label.
 

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