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Sony’s new tablet is really a tablet

Tablet size, tablet writing, just add batteries When Apple introduced the tablet in 2010, it was a 7.5-inch slab that people derided as being an over-sized phone, and to a large extent they were right. But it had qualities people wanted, and still want. It’s just that it wasn’t really a tablet—or at least the sort of tablet we still ...

Jon Peddie

Tablet size, tablet writing, just add batteries When Apple introduced the tablet in 2010, it was a 7.5-inch slab that people derided as being an over-sized phone, and to a large extent they were right. But it had qualities people wanted, and still want. It’s just that it wasn’t really a tablet—or at least the sort of tablet we still carry around because a digital tablet just doesn’t always fit the bill. Various other attempts have been made to replicate a real tablet experience while providing electronic capture and editing features. There is the Livescribe, and Wacom’s inking to name
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