Tablet vs. Smartphone — What's the Difference?

A portable touchscreen device.

Compact electronic tool for communication and apps.

Mobile computing device with a large screen.

Pocket-sized portal to the digital world.

Larger than a smartphone, without call features.

A handheld device with call functionality.

Electronic tool for media and apps.

Multi-functional gadget for calls, texts, and internet.

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.

A device merging a phone and mini-computer.

A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.

A smartphone is a portable device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider software, internet (including web browsing over mobile broadband), and multimedia functionality (including music, video, cameras, and gaming), alongside core phone functions such as voice calls and text messaging.

A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.

A cellphone having a touchscreen or alphabetic keypad and many of the features of a personal computer, including an operating system that allows the user to download specialized apps.

A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.

A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

A lightweight, portable computer having a touchscreen as the method by which data is input.

A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

To inscribe on a tablet.

To form into a tablet.

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

(computing) A graphics tablet.

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

A small table or flat surface.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

A small flat compressed cake of some substance;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

A device optimized for visual content.

It depends on your needs; a Tablet might lack direct call features but excels in media consumption.

A Smartphone is more portable due to its compact size.

Yes, both support apps, but the experience might differ due to screen size.

Some Tablets support SIM cards and calls, but most are designed without call functionality.

Many apps are available on both, but some are optimized for one device over the other.