The debate

Tablets aren´t going away. They will continue to be an important and impressive part of our smart mobile device family. But they???ve stopped being the trailblazing category-defining product that they once were. They have generated a remarkable surge in public interest and have transformed many areas of people???s lives. But the excitement is now going into other categories, including the smartphone, which is having a new lease of life, in part because they now have much larger and higher resolution screens. Newer smartphones can take over some of the functionality that people thought they needed a tablet for.