Forget the post-PC world that Apple reckons we're in , the tablet, smartphone and PC-like device are all must-haves for today's consumer. So says Acer, a company which just so happens to make smartphones, tablets and PC-like devices. When asked if it's important to Acer to differentiate between its large smartphones and small tablets , Aymar de Lencquesaing, smartphone president at Acer, told TechRadar: "To a certain extent it doesn't matter because really it depends on usage. If you're creating content, you want a PC. If you want something on you all the time, then it's a smartphone. The tablet is a new proposition; it's fun, it's instant-on and you can take the internet to places where you couldn't use it before." Pointless fun He continued, "Even in a tablet you have a different segmentation between the 7-inch and the 10-inch. So the 10-inch device by and large tends to stay in the house. The 7-inch tends to be taken with you because it's more portable. "Our view is that there's no such thing as a Swiss Army knife approach to these things

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