It’s coming! I can feel it! The next generation of mobile technology is going to be unveiled soon and you’re reading about it here first!
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\nNo, I don’t have any clairvoyance, although once I picked up the phone to call my sister and she was on the line. That was really weird, but it happened only once.<\/p>\n
Also, I don’t have any insider contacts or spies within the ranks of the mobile device manufacturing companies. I’m completely out of the loop on technology coming down the pike.<\/p>\n
Just say that I have a feeling.<\/p>\n
My feeling is that soon a new set of super tablets<\/em> will appear. I should be specific: Super-size<\/em> tablets are coming. I’m not referring to convertible laptops, which are already out there, but rather to tablets in the 14-inch-and-up size. Heck, I see 21-inch tablets before the sun sets on the year 2014.<\/p>\n As people begin to realize that they can get all their “computer” work done using a tablet, they’ll start switching from PCs. That migration is already underway.<\/p>\n Eventually, those same people will want the convenience of the tablet, but miss their old widescreen LCD monitors. While having a mobile device is nifty, just as there are laptops and desktops, eventually consumers will clamor for large-format tablets. They want their widescreen to watch movies, read books, and play games. For those users, mobility comes second.<\/p>\n True, if you take, say, a 21-inch tablet and give it a Bluetooth keyboard, you effectively have a cheap desktop PC. But that user doesn’t want the full-on PC! They want a tablet, one that stays in one spot. Yes, that concept seems counterintuitive. That’s probably what’s keeping the manufacturers from developing such a device presently.<\/p>\n I recall how adamant Steve Jobs was about the original iPad’s size. He insisted that the 7″ tablet size just would not work. Yet today, the iPad mini is the best-selling model. The Nexus 7 is one of the hottest-selling Android tables. People definitely want smaller tablets. I think the opposite could also be true.<\/p>\n Especially for home-bound, Wi-Fi only tablets, the larger format could be the next big thing. The process will start with some manufacturer, say Samsung, coming out with a 14-inch Galaxy Tab. Then . . . expect the floodgates to open.<\/p>\n Remember, you read it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s coming! I can feel it! The next generation of mobile technology is going to be unveiled soon and you’re reading about it here first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4645,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}