| Despite resistance, the etiquette debate seems to be tilting in the favor of smartphone use, many executives said. |
| You want to shop for something, you don't go to a store, you just fire up a laptop or a smartphone and order it. |
| It addresses issues of range anxiety by using the smartphone to map out charging stations along the route. |
| Phablets are especially well suited for emerging economies, since consumers in those markets don't want to buy both a tablet and smartphone. |
| But what makes this really interesting, is that it makes it possible to put smartphone features onto a pretty ordinary phone. |
| The new strategy reverses their plans, announced in July, to launch a smartphone. |
