In the grand scheme of worries, deciding which size tablet to get — they all sit within a roughly three-inch screen range — does not quite rank.
But technophiles and technophobes alike struggle with the question. About half of the major tablets are the thickness of a failing magazine with screens about seven inches (measured along the diagonal), and the other half are about twice as thick with screens about 10 inches long.
Even if this isn’t a life-changing decision, it can be a baffling one.
The companies that make tablets give some basic but vague guidance. Google's marketing materials say its larger 10-inch tablet is suitable as a “couch or coffee table companion” and its seven-inch Nexus 7 “is designed to go wherever you go.” Peter Larsen, Amazon’s vice president for the Kindle reader, says the seven-inch Kindle Fire HD is small enough to fit in a purse. He doesn’t say where the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD fits.
Here’s the first thing to keep in mind. It kind of doesn’t matter. All tablets can browse the Web, check e-mail and run apps. Some are better at some things than others, but the difference in screen size does not fundamentally change the nature of the machine.
Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, had a beautiful way of describing it to me. She said tablets of different sizes were like knives in your kitchen: “You can have a six-inch chef’s knife or an eight-inch chef’s knife or a paring knife, but they all cut food.”
Ms. Epps said that people more often than not use tablets in their homes, where you’d think that more screen real estate would trump more portability. And Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, who has been studying user interfaces for almost 30 years, agreed. “When it comes to screen size, bigger is better,” he said.
But I’m not sure that’s the whole picture. All those benefits don’t account for the popularity of smaller tablets.
I believe smaller tablets make up for their smaller screens and limited computing power by being easier to hold. That’s different from portability.
Phones are light enough for anyone to hold, and laptops are never expected to be held for long, unless they’re being toted in a bag. But tablets beg not only to be carried like magazines but to be held like them, too. This generation of midsize tablets is not only better out of the house, but more comfortable to hold in the home, on couches and in bed, where they are most often used. The bigger tablets weigh just enough to be annoying after a while.
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