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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
I always had a Swiss Army knife in my pocket, then years ago I decided a Leatherman was more useful. But I still need real tools. I wouldn't try to find one electronic device for all my needs because there isn't one.
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Exactly. Just as with the Swiss Army knife, even if one device could do it all, it wouldn't do any individual task as well as the purpose-built one.
So I have a non-smart phone that does phone calls and text messages, and has a physical keyboard to make writing texts... well, not exactly easy 'cause my fingers are too big, but at least much more doable than a touch screen.
(And the phone easily fits in my pack for when I'm out hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, &c.)
Then I have a tablet (well, a couple, but one's for experimenting) that is mostly for reading papers and manuals. I can carry it around with me, and even run an OBDII app on it when I'm working on vehicles. But even with a Bluetooth keyboard, it's too small for convenient working.
So I have computers, with real keyboards and 21" or larger monitors. The notebook for general work, the power-sucking multi-core with GPU compute machine, and the one with the big disk that is backup and storage for audio files & stuff.
When I want to take halfway decent pictures, I have a real camera, too.