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Do you use your smartphone more than your computer?

Do you use your smartphone/tablet more than your primary computer?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • No

    Votes: 10 37.0%

  • I use both about equally

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • Total voters
    27
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I am curious on how many of you are using your smartphone from day to day. Do you find yourself using your smartphone or tablet more than your computer/laptop or vice-versa.

Thanks
 
*hand up* :D
Our laptop is for rooting Android devices. Hate the thing. I now use my tablet most and phone second :)
 
My vote is almost equally. My main usage on the computer is for heavier tasks and web surfing. Web surfing on a smartphone is not that great on a small screen.

Thanks for the replies. :)
 
About equally. I have a 7in tablet, a Note 2and a pretty good laptop (4th gen i5 and Nvidia 720m). I use the laptop generally for gaming (Skyrim, Wii Emulation, Dark Souls, etc) and heavier tasks like report writing where I have several Windows open. Plus many of the medicine related websites I use don't work well on the tablet. The tablet is generally used for reading ebooks and light games. The phone more for stuff like records (expenses, fuel records, etc), reminders, alarms and accessing stuff when I couldn't be bothered to go get my tablet or laptop out of the bag.
 
My Transformer tablet is just too slow and too buggy compared to my laptop. It also cannot do everything I do with my computer. When I first got my tablet, I used it a lot more than my computer, but the novelty is over. I just find it annoying when I need to do something and have to pull out my PC instead of continuing to use my tablet.
 
I think my problem could be that I know a lot more about Android than I'll ever know about windows so our laptop isn't maintained properly and is a sluggish horrible frustrating machine to use whereas my androids are kept right at the bleeding edge, software-wise. They do everything instantly without that clunking of gears.
If I needed a PC I'm sure I'd learn to look after it but as it stands, the laptop lives under the couch gathering cat hair and waiting on me plugging an Android device into it's USB :D
 
I still really like my laptop and I do a lot of typing / writing and website updates etc. so way easier for that or even for posting articles, sale items etc. to facebook. Easier for cutting and pasting and I still like the larger screen for watching video etc. Also my laptop is blazing fast which doesn't hurt either. Use my phone a lot for streaming audio and checking email's etc. constantly so I'd say both equally.
 
Not more, not less but differently.

I'm a bit bemused by this question; it's like asking a carpenter whether he uses a saw more than a chisel. They both can cut wood and can be used interchangeably for a small number of jobs, but generally they each have their own areas of excellence and are chosen to match the job in hand.

A better question would be which would you keep if you could keep only one - in which case I'd keep the phone despite using the PC rather more when I have access to both.
 
Well said. There are functions the laptop is used for, functions the Note 3 is used for and functions the Note 8/10.1....
 
I use my Galaxy S4 and iPad 4 more than my laptop and Mac.

Between the GS4 and the iPad, I use my GS4 the most, for web browsing, social networking (Twitter, Instagram and FB), IM (BBM and WhatsApp), Calls, Emails, watching series etc...

I use my iPad also for a lot of web browsing, gaming, social networks, reading eBooks, magazines, research for university assignments etc...

I use my laptop mostly for assignments (typing) and backing up my phone and tablet.
 
Nope.

I'm a gamer and a smartphone doesn't even come close to the performance of high end PC.

That and touchscreen controls are awkward for pretty much everything.
 
Shocky said:
Nope.

I'm a gamer and a smartphone doesn't even come close to the performance of high end PC.

That and touchscreen controls are awkward for pretty much everything.
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Yeah they're terrible for gaming lol but perfect for web browsing imo :)
 
Gaming on a smartphone can get very uncomfortable very quickly, I have GTA on my S4 and I find it quite difficult to play, yet on my iPad it's quite a breeze. The only other games I have on my phone are games built from the ground up for mobile e.g. Angry Birds, Angry Birds Go, Bad Piggies, Fruit Ninja, Candy Crush, Temple Run, Beach Buggy Blitz, and Dead Trigger, and I barely play them, lol.

I do try heavy HD games now and then, just nice to see how capable my smartphone is. I must say, if you told me that I'd be able to play GTA San Andreas on phone back in 2004, I would've laughed at you, crazy how capable these beasts are these days, and we are now headed to some new generation 64bit CPUs later this year and next year based on the newer ARM architecture. I bet most people who own phones like the Note 3 capable of 4K video can't even play 4K on their laptops and PCs.
 
funkylogik said:
Yeah they're terrible for gaming lol but perfect for web browsing imo :)
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Browsing as in just looking, yes it's well suited for that, but any website that requires you to interact, enter details or any flash content and it becomes awkward or impossible.

The times I've started writing or entering data on a touchscreen only to accidental press something and lose all the information, it's a nightmare if you have to write anything at length because you have to be so careful and precise on websites and touchscreen controls are anything but precise.

It's great a smartphone can do these things but ill only use my phone to write or work on a document if I have no choice.
 
Nope, definitely use the laptop out of preference, even a desktop for some things (photo editing, for example).

The phone's edge is mobility, but that's it. Much harder to type, to multitask properly, much less cpu power and storage, much more limited screen space. For what I use the laptop for no handheld device is going to come close in the foreseeable future.

But at the risk of over-simplifying I mainly use computers to create (software, documents, etc) rather than consume (watching, reading without editing or commenting), so as shocky has said a phone (or IMO a tablet) isn't well suited to my these uses.
 
I'd guess I use them about equally.

If both are available it depends on what I'll be doing and for how long. Lots of typing or an hour of web browsing I'll do on a computer since it's easier and faster.
 
I am an owner of a Note 2 and i must say,i use it a lot.Mostly browsing ,music,trying out apps ,about 4 hours a day .I use my pc about the same time but for different things-mostly blogging and watching movies.But i am more dependent on my phone to be honest.
 
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