ASUS Blog – 5.18.19 (5.16.19)
Once only good for calls and texts, our cell phones used to be as small as their role in our lives. For a while in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, we struggled with phones that were getting too small. Now, our phones now have the much heftier responsibility of serving as the first source for all our news and entertainment and our connection to everyone we know (and those we haven’t met yet), and they increasingly shoulder the burden of capturing all our memories and documenting our day-to-day, too. Throw in all of the apps that we’ve grown dependent on to pay bills, buy food, book dinner reservations, and get from point A to point B, and it’s easy to see why people crave larger devices: this screen is our window to the world, and it needs to be as big as possible so we can see everything. The challenge is that it still needs to be small enough for us to want to carry it around.
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