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" We could go on and on about how phablet is so terrible a name \u2014 though, in a post-iPad world, it seems we may come to accept any name if the product is just right \u2014 but the problem with phablets lay not in portmanteaus but in the idea that simply because a phone is larger it is somehow more useful. This is not true. We wanted small for so long. Do you remember the LG Chocolate? The Nokia 2600? What once were bricks were suddenly clamshells, and it was heaven. And then Apple taught us why we&amp;#039;d want more out of a phone and what it would look like, and then smaller wasn&amp;#039;t better. Larger was. Our fat fingers needed more room. We wanted more space for tweets. And Facebooks. And Intagrams. And movies. So many things to experience. But an extra 1.5 inches inches does not a more compelling experience make. A tablet is a tablet is a tablet. A tablet is something you&amp;#039;d look at photos on. Play graphic-heavy, enveloping games on. Be creative on. Watch movies on. You never want to watch a movie on a phone \u2014 you just do it because that&amp;#039;s all you&amp;#039;ve got. Because finishing Battlestar simply can&amp;#039;t wait. And that extra 1.5 inches doesn&amp;#039;t make looking at photos, or sketching on fake paper notebooks or hijacking cars in a fictional Miami, any better or easier. It just makes it bigger. Barely. It makes it harder to fit in things like pockets.  With the Galaxy Note II having reportedly sold more than five million units as early as last November, we&amp;#039;re not saying some people don&amp;#039;t like this kind of stuff. They do. The seem to, at least. But just because you add a stylus to something doesn&amp;#039;t mean it&amp;#039;s useful. If that were the case, we&amp;#039;d still be using Treos. (Thank God, by the way, we&amp;#039;re not still using Treos.) And just because you make something bigger doesn&amp;#039;t make it more fun.  Netbooks taught us that just because you can make it smaller and cheaper doesn&amp;#039;t mean it&amp;#039;ll become a consumer behavior-changing paradigm. (And if it does, it&amp;#039;s not always for the better.) And this year, the year that&amp;#039;s being called &amp;quot;The Year of the Phablet&amp;quot; \u2014 God help us if that&amp;#039;s what we call this year \u2014 might just teach us something more important. An extra 1.5 inches isn&amp;#039;t that great. It&amp;#039;s just a little more space. -- Mark Mikin, assistant editor of mobile editions, is familiar with both phones and tablets. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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