Smartphone vs Tablet – Pros and Cons

With numerous brands and designs to choose from buying a new smartphone or tablet has become a very daunting task indeed. The market is saturated with devices made by well-known and profitable companies like Samsung and Apple as well as less known brands like Panasonic mobile and other cheaper Chinese and local homegrown companies. Choosing between a smartphone and a tablet has become more confusing as both form factors are now equipped with similar functions and features.

So, read on to find out how you can select a device and why you need it:

• Smartphones are More Portable than Tablets

Even though smartphones have grown with better and bigger screen, they are still very portable than most tablets in the market. It’s true that newer tablets are much lighter and thinner that the previous iterations, but when it comes to portability they still lag behind than larger smartphones. Tablets still need to be carried in a bag, and most people use them primarily at home and for entertainment purposes.

• Tablets Offer Better Functionality than Smartphones

It is true that tablets aren’t as portable as smartphones, but they provide slightly better functionality than smartphones in some cases, though that gap has been closing much faster than before. Tablets have bigger screens giving your more real estate to get work done like editing word documents or spreadsheets. In most cases, professionals are relying more today on tablets than laptops in the workplaces. If course, typing in tablets isn’t very comfortable or fast when compared to a laptop, but when it comes to being productive tablets always will have the upper hand than smartphones.

• Tablets Have Better Battery Life

This is a no-brainer; tablets are larger devices so they should have bigger batteries than smartphones. However, battery life in smartphones has been improving, thanks to better and energy-efficient chips, but still most smartphones users will struggle to keep their devices running out of juice at the end of the day. Meanwhile, tablets, even with heavy usage, they seem to last forever on a single charge.

• Tablets Are Less Cumbersome Than Smartphones

We all know editing a document and reading a book on a smartphone while walking, on a train or in a coffee shop. It isn’t much fun but downright painful. Chances are there that you will drop your smartphone and shatter the screen or twitch your eyes after reading the small texts on your smartphone after a while. Well, your tablet can do all those things and better than your smartphone. Working and reading on tablets is much easier, comfortable, less straining on your eyes and much easier to use in any place and the environment.

• Smartphones are Less Flexible than Tablets

A tablet has been made to match the functionality of a smartphone and a laptop. Flexibility is the main reason why tablets have been in demand. In most scenarios, a tablet can be used as a substitute for a laptop and can match, if not all, the same functions and performance.

Tablets are also more versatile than smartphones, especially while watching movies, playing games, video chat, browsing the internet and conferencing. They do a better job as e-readers than the most of the best smartphones and laptops in the market. Tablets are also priced more competitively than smartphones and offer a better bang for your buck in the long run.

The bottom line is a smartphone is ideal for most tasks and suitable for most people, but there are some situations and requirements where a tablet might be a better choice.

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