Been messing with my electronic stack lately and I miss 7-inch tablets. I have a Lenovo Tab M7 that I use as an e-reader on steroids (it also lets me read from places like FanFiction and AO3) but, of course, the OS is deprecated and unsupported at this point.
My Z Fold 6 just does not give me the same experience. The dimensions are wrong, it’s hard to hold in tablet mode, and it keeps trying to put text either on lines that are too long, or in two columns that jump around too much. I find that I keep reaching for the M7 anyway.
In all honesty, the purchase has been money wasted and when I replace it, I likely will not get another foldable. Just a plain simple smartphone will be fine, since I use my phone for talk, text, Spotify, checking weather, Android Auto, occasionally looking things up, and as a mobile hotspot. That’s it.
Boox has a nice little 7 inch e-Ink tablet but WOW it’s expensive and color e-ink technology is not particularly advanced right now. I’ve thought about getting a black-and-white one of those, but even those are really really expensive. Same for the reMarkable.
I’ll survive and figure it out, and despite the OS deprecation there’s a lot of life left in my little Tab M7. But still. I can’t be the only person out there who wishes 7″ tablets hadn’t gone away.