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I have always had a love-hate relationship with Android. While I have been attracted by the perceived "openness" of the platform and the possibility of customization, I have always been disappointed with the unnecessary complexity that the so-called openness brings.
What is the iPad? During its 2010 introduction, Steve Jobs positioned it as the device that sits between the Mac at the productivity end and the iPhone on the portability end. He justified the iPad’s right to exist by identifying a few specific tasks that he claimed to be better on an iPad than on a Mac or iPhone. They included book reading, email, photo browsing, movie watching. I remember him sitting on stage in a black leather armchair while he did the demos. This stood out because this was the first time Jobs had demoed a product on stage while seated.
I have been an ardent supporter of the Samsung Galaxy Note since its introduction in 2011. At that time, most smartphones had a sub 5-inch screen, so the original Galaxy Note was a departure from the norm. It was not the first giant screened phone, but it was the device that popularized the segment and gave it the “Phablet” moniker. Many of Samsung’s competitors as well as technology bloggers ridiculed the size of the device.
Rumor has it that BlackBerry is going to make an Android smartphone called Venice. The purported device will feature a 5.4-inch display with QHD screen resolution. The handset will be powered by a 64-bit, hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor running at 1.8 GHz and have 3 GB of RAM.
