1. Form factor - it's a big square. That sounds dumb but there are specific reasons why it's fantastic. Unlike an oblong rectangle, it fits very well in a pocket; doesn't wobble around. Holding it feels solid... and it makes using the apps fantastic. I have all the width in the world to view webpages like a desktop, explore maps with my thumbs, load up spreadsheets (never thought I would want to do that on my phone, but suddenly it was easy). I can zoom into things with my thumbs easily. I love the square shape. It also means the keyboard is an excellent size.
2. Keyboard - Wide real-physical-buttons keyboard.... which is also a touchscreen! It's capacitive touch across the real buttons. I've never seen this anywhere, and it works phenomenally. This is used for a variety of reasons, mostly subtle features that make typing wonderful. I can backspace a word by swiping right-to-left across the keyboard. By swiping down across the keyboard, I load a large set of symbols that appear over the screen's UI, so now I have 7 rows of buttons easily accessible whenever I want, which is awesome (I type a lot of symbols!). I can double-"touchscreen-tap" (not click) on the keyboard to load a "bubble" text-cursor which is super useful for selecting down-to-the-exact-character-I-want part of text for select/copy/paste/etc., or even just to navigate around where I'm typing (I scroll around on the keyboard-touchscreen to move it). It's hard to describe but there are so many little features built into this thing that make it great as a power-user.
3. It's a bit like Linux in the 90's -- there aren't so many apps, but the base OS gives you tons of features that are important to me as a power-user. For example, it can aggregate all your messaging from different apps into one place, where you can create filters for which subsets of messages you care to see, you can easily prioritize or delete messages, etc. The wide screen helps with this. Also I have many options for tethering (mobile hotspot, or tether via USB or bluetooth), screen-sharing via miracast etc., and lots of other connectivity tools etc.
1. Form factor - it's a big square. That sounds dumb but there are specific reasons why it's fantastic. Unlike an oblong rectangle, it fits very well in a pocket; doesn't wobble around. Holding it feels solid... and it makes using the apps fantastic. I have all the width in the world to view webpages like a desktop, explore maps with my thumbs, load up spreadsheets (never thought I would want to do that on my phone, but suddenly it was easy). I can zoom into things with my thumbs easily. I love the square shape. It also means the keyboard is an excellent size.
2. Keyboard - Wide real-physical-buttons keyboard.... which is also a touchscreen! It's capacitive touch across the real buttons. I've never seen this anywhere, and it works phenomenally. This is used for a variety of reasons, mostly subtle features that make typing wonderful. I can backspace a word by swiping right-to-left across the keyboard. By swiping down across the keyboard, I load a large set of symbols that appear over the screen's UI, so now I have 7 rows of buttons easily accessible whenever I want, which is awesome (I type a lot of symbols!). I can double-"touchscreen-tap" (not click) on the keyboard to load a "bubble" text-cursor which is super useful for selecting down-to-the-exact-character-I-want part of text for select/copy/paste/etc., or even just to navigate around where I'm typing (I scroll around on the keyboard-touchscreen to move it). It's hard to describe but there are so many little features built into this thing that make it great as a power-user.
3. It's a bit like Linux in the 90's -- there aren't so many apps, but the base OS gives you tons of features that are important to me as a power-user. For example, it can aggregate all your messaging from different apps into one place, where you can create filters for which subsets of messages you care to see, you can easily prioritize or delete messages, etc. The wide screen helps with this. Also I have many options for tethering (mobile hotspot, or tether via USB or bluetooth), screen-sharing via miracast etc., and lots of other connectivity tools etc.