What is a term used to refer to a device that combines the features of a smartphone with a tablet?

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ITS 230 MD 3

True of False

  T  1. Malware authors often focus on social media, with the goal of stealing personal information.

  F  2. The disadvantages of a virtual server are that it is difficult to manage and takes a long time to create and configure.

  F  3. A mainframe is a small terminal that looks like a desktop, but has limited capabilities and components.

   F  4. Thin clients contain powerful hard drives.

  F  5. Applications requiring complex, sophisticated mathematical calculations use mainframes.

  F  6. Most computers and electronic devices are analog, which use only two discrete states: on and off.

  T  7. SLR cameras are much heavier and larger than point-and-shoot cameras.

  T  8. Stick computers typically are less expensive than desktops and laptops.

  T  9. Instead of the term, port, the term, connector, sometimes is used to identify audio and video ports.

  F  10. Newer versions of USB are backward compatible, which means they support only new USB devices, not older ones.

  T  11. A port replicator is an external device that provides connections to peripheral devices through ports built into the device.

  F  12. NFC uses Wi-Fi signals to transmit data between two NFC-enabled devices.

1. CPU: G              2. fault-tolerant computer: B     3. Kiosk: H    4. Motherboard: J    5. peripheral device: D 

6. phablet: A    7. push notification: I    8. server virtualization: F    9. slate tablet: C   10. thin client: E

Matching

//a. term used to refer to a device that combines the features of a smartphone with a tablet

//b.          computer with duplicate components so that it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail

//c.          tablet that does not contain a physical keyboard

//d.          component you connect to a computer or mobile device to expand its capabilities

//e.          terminal that looks like a desktop but has limited capabilities and components

//f.           the use of software to enable a physical server to emulate the hardware and computing capabilities of one or more servers

//g.          electronic component that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer

//h.          freestanding terminal that usually has a touchscreen for user input

//i.           message that initiates from a sending location without a request from the receiver

//j.           the main circuit board of a personal computer

Problem Solving:

1.       You could resolve this by running a scan on your computer to check for any type of malware that may be slowing your computer down. Also one thing I like to do is go through most of my files and see which ones I can get rid of. One good program is a disk defragmenter which will help clean up your hard drive.

4. Usually when your battery drains quickly means the life of the battery is weakening. Apple iPhones now have a new feature showing the overall battery life left in the phone. There could be apps running in the background that are very battery intensive as well.

5. Personally I would shut my computer down and disconnect from the internet. I would then boot up in safe mode. Depending on what I saw on the link I have a safe boot saved on a flash drive which would allow me to clean up my computer. If I didn’t think it was a big issue I would run a scan with my antimalware program.

9. My first step would be to restart the computer because maybe the crash caused an error in the system and properly resetting it may solve that issue. Next I would try to connect to the cloud service using a different device. If none of those options worked I would call the IT department.

10. The next steps would be to try and find a cable that fits both the laptop and the projector. If none can be found then try and find a convertor (Ex. VGA -> HDMI). If that doesn’t work transfer your presentation to somewhere that it can be easily accessed from and try a different device.

Internet Research:

4.

Personally I would purchase the Belkin BP112230-08 because of its low price and superior Joule rating. It has the best warranty and the most impressive other features.

Phablet [fab-lit]: Noun. A mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet -- Dictionary.com

It's a word that people love to hate but continue to use. With Apple's late arrival to the category with the iPhone 6 Plus, it's sure to skyrocket in usage, if not in popularity, even though Apple, like most smartphone companies that play in the large-screen space, shuns the portmanteau word.

Instead, Apple went with the marketing tagline of, "Bigger than bigger," whatever that's supposed to mean.

Blame technology reporters. Blame technology analysts. They're the ones who coined phablet and who continue to use it. Reporters love to concoct new terms, catchy or not -- witness another portmanteau, "prosumer," from the 1980s -- and analysts need terminology to categorize and classify.

"We as a species have a need to classify everything," said Wes Miller, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. "The thing was not really a minivan, but it 'crosses over' from the category, so we called it a 'crossover.'

Ben Zimmer, a language columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a former editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press, has traced the word to Dan Warren of GSMA, a U.K.-based association of mobile operators, and its first use online in June 2010 to Ian Scales of TelecomTV.

In a column last week (subscription required), Zimmer said the rise in the word was concurrent with the increase in sales of smartphones with larger screens, and noted that the term was often derided. For example, in 2012, "phablet" tied with "YOLO" (You Only Live Once) for "Least Likely to Succeed" in a vote by the American Dialect Society. (Zimmer is chairman of the New Words Committee of the organization.)

If everyone hates "phablet" why do they continue to use it? And what would be its replacement? Computerworld asked those questions of several industry analysts who cover mobile,and hoped to find a gem that could send the neologism to the same graveyard as "infobahn" and "tweeple."

"I think the word 'phablet' is a terrible word," said Van Baker of Gartner. "I told my wife it was a phablet and she assumed that meant a fat tablet. I don't know of any connotations around the word that are positive so the industry would be better off without it. I guess they are just big phones or phones with tablet features."

Baker admitted defeat. "I don't know what to call them," he said.

"The negative reaction stems from both the word itself and the fact that [it's] used to describe what's basically a smartphone at the larger end of the size range," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research. "We don't call small smartphones or medium-sized smartphones something different, so why have a different word for the biggest ones?"

Others echoed Dawson.

" 'Phablet' is an unfortunate choice. Prepending the 'F' sound to a word has come to mean 'fake' or 'faux,' " said Charles Golvin, founder of Abelian Research and a former Forrester analyst. "Like fuzzy boots that aren't actually made from Australian sheep's wool: fUggs. Or a knockoff [Cartier Tank] watch: fartier."

To Golvin, the portmanteau was superfluous. "We don't need no stinking new category name," Golvin said. "People use these devices just like they use the smaller devices that are labeled ['smartphone'], people's behavior makes it clear that these larger devices function as smartphones, so that's what the market should call these devices."

But Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies pointed out that for all its flaws and derogatory connotations, "phablet" wasn't going anywhere. "The problem is that 'phablet' has gotten into the collective tech vocabulary, and even if Apple does not use it, a lot of people already know what that term means," Bajarin said. "Media are lost for an alternative term and will continue to use it to describe smartphones over five inches."

"The thing is, 'phablet' properly identifies what this type of device is," said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with IDC. "I prefer to refer to them as 'large screen smartphones,' but that does not exactly roll off the tongue. Until we come up with a better word, we are stuck with 'phablet.' "

Maybe, maybe not, said Carolina Milanesi, chief of research and head of U.S. business for Kantar WorldPanel Comtech.

"As smartphones get larger, I am not sure a name is needed, in the same way we did not call a 4.7-in. something different than a 3.5-in. something," said Milanesi. "Terms that try to marry two things are not usually successful, as it could be seen as a compromise, as is the case with '2-in-1' computing," she added, referring to another term that has surfaced lately to describe hybrid devices that combine characteristics of both a tablet and a personal computer laptop.

Milanesi even saw some value in 'phablet,' at least originally. "I think the term was created to make the larger devices stand out, and give consumers [an idea that] they were getting two for one," she said.

"It sounds pretentious," said Miller. "But it is what it is. It's not a phone, it's not a tablet. It's a compromise."

While none of the nine analysts wanted to salvage the word and all detested it to one degree or another, they had few alternatives to offer.

Verizon currently claims it cannot deliver a new iPhone 6 Plus until Oct. 28, more than two weeks later than the Apple online store's longest lag between ordering and shipping.

Llamas, tongue in cheek, suggest flipping the portmanteau, suggesting "tablone" as a replacement.

Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, went one better. "Never liked 'phablet,' it's just a big phone," said Rubin. "The best I can come up [as a substitute] is 'Callossus.' "

Bajarin said he has used the word "tabphone" a few times. "I was surprised how many people instantly knew what I was talking about," he said.

A few others had experimented with substitutes, but to no avail. "I originally had come up with "megaphone" as in "mega-phone," but that doesn't really work," admitted Bob O'Donnell, chief analyst at Technalysis Research. "I also have used 'pocket computer' but that's a bit too old school."

"I've been known to use 'tweener,' " acknowledged Miller.

Some have surrendered to the portmanteau, putting it in quotation marks or simply avoided it, sticking instead to longer, more specific phrasing. "I tend to either use the word 'phablet' in quotes or talk about phones over a particular size," said Dawson, who said part of his problem with "phablet" was the sketchy definition. "Some pretty mainstream phones, like the Galaxy S5, are creeping up into territory that might once have been considered a phablet."

"I've fallen back to large-screen smartphone because everyone know what that is," O'Donnell said.

While an alternative may never replace "phablet," there's a good chance the label will simply die out, overtaken by technology, several of the experts contended.

"If we think about these slabs of connected computing glass, the only distinction between the two categories other than size is whether or not they make traditional circuit-switched phone calls, as in 'dial a number,' " Golvin said. "As carriers migrate to packet-switched voice it seems likely that this distinction, too, will fall by the wayside."

No one was saying that Apple will dump the "Phone" from "iPhone" any time soon, but the trend, the analysts argued, was clear: Lines would blur.

"The only thing that I disagree with is [that Zimmer's piece] seems to imply that the word 'phablet' is here to stay," said Baker of Gartner. "I don't think that is true. Once we get to VoLTE, all calls will be digital, and you will be able to use any phone or any tablet to make phone calls so the term will become obsolete by definition. The labels of 'phone' and 'tablet' will also become less relevant over time, but they are too established to disappear quickly."

Apple, in fact, is pushing VoLTE, or "voice-over-LTE," in the newest iPhones, which allows the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to make voice calls through any Internet connection, most likely a Wi-Fi network. Customers' mobile carriers must support VoLTE for them to sidestep the circuit-switched 3G network.

"Smartphones really are not phones anymore, that's a misnomer," O'Donnell said. "According to my research, people only talk on these devices 10.6% of the time and, if you're younger, even less than that."

But the best comment about "phablet" wasn't about the word at all. "Isn't language fun?" Baker asked.

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