Also known as: Tablet, Tablet computer
A tablet is a larger touchscreen device that sits between a smartphone and a laptop.1
Overview
A tablet shares the phone’s mobile operating system and its app model, just on a bigger screen. That extra screen makes it well suited to media — reading, video, drawing — and to light productivity, especially when paired with a detachable keyboard that nudges it toward laptop territory.
Where it fits
The tablet inherits the phone’s role rather than the laptop’s: it is a place to view and interact with data, not a development machine, and apps are still built on a personal computer under mobile app development. The extra screen pays off wherever a phone feels cramped but a full laptop is more than the task needs — including reading decoded SDR output in the field.
Sources
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Tablet computer — Wikipedia, on the touchscreen device between a phone and a laptop. ↩