Google Glass makes Time's best inventions list of 2012

4. GUNDAM posted on 07 Nov 2012, 01:22 3 2

wouldn't be an invention though..

5. sheik posted on 07 Nov 2012, 01:36 2 0

eh, who invented the phablet category for the first time? huh? Fruit company?

7. GUNDAM posted on 07 Nov 2012, 01:54 2 0

im saying that the note 2 isn't an invention -_- it's an evolution of the note 1 which yes, did create the phablet genre. apple hasn't really been revolutionary since 2007

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9. satanrules posted on 07 Nov 2012, 02:20 8 1

Heard of Dell streak?

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10. OHaZZaR posted on 07 Nov 2012, 02:24 6 1

Never heard any one calling it a phablet. At least not until the original note was released

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13. satanrules posted on 07 Nov 2012, 02:31 4 1

So it's about the word "Phablet" not the idea.

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22. OHaZZaR posted on 07 Nov 2012, 06:21 1 0

Actually, yes it is. It's like the iPad in this case. Microsoft is the first company to create a functional tablet, but business never really took off until the first generation iPad was released. There hasn't been an android tablet before the iPad or any tablet that had an OS optimised for a tablet experience(not that iOS is an "optimal" tablet OS, but it basically created the genre". Heck by that time wikipedia categorised it as a PC. Not that it isn't but it did not fit into any suitable or popular sub-category at the time. There's no denying that the first "phablet" is the Dell Streak 5, but it had way too many compromises to actually create the category that it ultimately belonged to.

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19. jroc74 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 05:57 0 2

Hell, I called the Streak a phablet when it was first rumored.

It probably wasnt coined phablet by main stream media....but some of us in forums used that term before the bloggers, writers, media.

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21. jroc74 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 06:03 1 1

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/44744-big-o-android.html

See my 2 posts in this topic....lol.

That topic is from May- June 2010

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11. GUNDAM posted on 07 Nov 2012, 02:26 1 0

:O forgot about that :P i stand corrected. the note 1 brought phablets to mainstream popularity then.

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6. PhenomFaz posted on 07 Nov 2012, 01:40 5 0

Of course Google Galss made the innovation list...what could we expect....that a certain mapping service by a fruit company shuld've been in that list :)

14. crapdroid666 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 02:38 0 9

project glass. even Star Trek geeks will be ashamed to be seen in public looking like Cyborg aliens from mars wearing this

16. gothicheart posted on 07 Nov 2012, 03:04 3 0

how can anyone be more ashamed of than walking down a street using an iphone, when a granny next to you is also using one...

24. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 07 Nov 2012, 07:15 1 0

I was thinking of being ashamed of talking to Siri in public, but yours works too.

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20. jroc74 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 05:59 1 0

We are talking about Star Trek geeks. They will wear this proudly...

Star Wars ones too.

25. JonBjSig posted on 07 Nov 2012, 09:33 2 0

Trekkie here, I can confirm this.

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26. jroc74 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 18:35 0 0

lol....glad you didnt get offended, It wasnt meant to be offensive.

It is what it is....

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