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Tablets should be called Megaphones (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Should be self-explanatory. They essentially have all the same apps as a phone now.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Then it would logically follow that smart watches would be called...

microphones.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm liking this!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Say hello to the gigaphone. image

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about virtual reality headsets? Facephones?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Those are eyephones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Except the actual phone part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The voice chat app?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

pretty sure my son with an android tablet and my daughter with a iPad can both still make phone calls lol. They are literally megaphones.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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There are VoIP options, sure, but not the actual phone bands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure you can get cell data on iPads now, it's pretty interesting that you can't make calls with them even when they have sim cards (or eSim)

A quick search says they can only do wifi calling by relaying your iPhone to your iPad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

For all phones there is sim card ability(afaik) Only half of the tablets have that

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Apart from megaphones already having that name.