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2014-12-07 , 15:40
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Phones, nits, mids, potAYtos, potAHtos. Who gives a fsck?
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Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
And how is having a keyboard making it any more like a PC? That's a real headscratcher. "Oh, it has a keyboard, and my PC has a keyboard. Therefore, it's more like my PC than other phones!"
Actually, it is. What makes for a real Personal Computer experience? Not the processing power. My old laptop with Intel 80486, 4MB RAM and a 800x480 screen is a PC. No, what makes for a PC experience is... the experience! Having a hardware keyboard, however lousy, brings the device MUCH closer to the real PC experience than quadrupling the CPU, RAM and screen size put together.

And the stylus bit...no. Anyone with common sense would at least strongly consider using a stylus with a resistive touch screen, on the grounds that the screen might be rather precise and the UI might just reflect that. That doesn't make it more like a PC.
Actually, it does. Yet again, it is about the experience. A stylus is all about precision. Not only is it MUCH closer to the real thing (a mouse), but also it allows you to do things you could only dream about on a toy but that are considered essential on a PC. Such as picture, video or audio editing or desktop publishing.
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