One of my co-workers has a Samsung Galaxy Note, which I call a face tablet.
The actual technical term is "phablet"...proof that a name can be just as gay as what it describes.
But as a funny story, I was talking with bob Galvin (CEO of Motorola during the 70,80' and 90's) and he was telling a good story about how cell phones basically came to be.
So it was a Friday afternoon in the early 80's and the FCC was being dickish about releasing the spectrum for the original cell phone, so bob gets a meeting with Reagan (I guess being Motorola CEO you can do that), and brings THE cell phone. Hands it to Reagan, and tells him to call Nancy in the residence. Reagan looks at him funny (not knowing that Motorola set up a mobile cell in a van parked on the street outside, with a custom RF backhaul to the telco). Reagan dials, talks to his wife for a bit, and hangs up.
He turns to bob and is just shocked..."why is this not available?"
Bob: "well, {FCC yadda yadda}"
Reagan: "let me make a call, you will have the spectrum on Monday"
And Monday the spectrum was released, and the rest is history.
Its a neat story (he also told me about how his dad basically risked the company on the idea of a cheap, consumer TV when everyone else in the 50's was making really expensive ones), and proof that sometimes, the right demo, with the right shock value, to the right person, can move mountains.
