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Well done interesting comments there seems  to be something suitable for everyone.

I don't mind the 6' diagonal mobile screen , I do find the keyboard works extremely well using 'swipe' rather than typing.

Predictive text which originally started off at 90% accuracy has now degraded to less than 50% recently. (As I've just found editing this lot).

Nevertheless I do like that speed and the portability. Best wishes  👍

A six foot screen doesn't sound very portable to me.

Sorry, "CY" that was one edit I missed, blame the eye sight!

I have an iPhone (not too large, it's a phone...) and an iPad. It's nice that they sync together...90%+ of my photos are taken on the phone but are immediately shared, as are notes and updates to any contact data.

a tablet is easy to use for smaller batches of typing like a forum or even notes which may then become the text for a longer email/letter to someone.

whilst the phone is, by design, smaller...it's effectively a 2nd iPad that makes calls....but even then, the iPad can also receive calls when sync'd to a phone.

for those struggling with small phone keyboards or large fingers, text can easily be created by using the 'voice' icon and then just saying your message.

ok, there might inevitably be a bit of 'correcting' to do but it's far, far quicker than struggling on a small keyboard.

I do still have a prehistoric desktop, but, apart from a couple of spreadsheets and an extra hard drive for all my pre-iPhone photos, it doesn't do a lot...

I use - in order of size - 

Desktop (with large monitor) - all business stuff on it. Any changes backed up to external disk every 20 minutes. And manually copied to laptop once a week.

Laptop - 17" screen. Used as backup for business and as television, film watching in caravan.

iPad - just for fun. Used for social media and nothing too serious. Plus copies of emails.

iPhone - making calls, texting and WhatsApp etc. And as a camera. Photos copied iCloud. Then manually downloaded to Desktop etc.

Kindle - just reading! It's an original non-touch screen.

Everybody has different priorities and needs different things. There's no right or wrong. 

It took me years to realise you can even scroll these pains to get to the sub topics. 

I use my phone for forums a lot. It works very well for keeping up to date, and posting the occasional short message. Navigation here on CT is terrible on a phone and not much better on a laptop. The UKcampsite forum and Practical Caravan forum take different approaches, both of which work FAR better than CT.  

Ah, well, now you know the ways to work around it 👍

I think I spend more time on the smallest device, my phone, which I just think of as a mini computer, TV and radio and a brilliant invention.  I like Android systems. I think some of us who've been on CT a long time have got adept at finding our way round it on a variety of devices...but for the uninitiated it's a challenge. 

Indeed...  My phone is one of the Samsung Note series so it comes with stylus.  After saying that, I don't seem to use the stylus as much these days.... My fingers are also very large (to do with a growth hormone problem), but I seem to manage OK on the phone.  Personally, I find the screen size OK.... but the Note 20 Ultra does have quite a large screen....

David

I could afford the stylus, but honestly,  £119 for magnifyers like these to peer at a phone screen?  Forget it.