Originally Posted by
jugofpropwash
What's the difference in actual computing power between a phone and a good tablet these days? I'm assuming that a complex program would require a laptop or at least an iPad/Windows tablet, rather than something running Android?
Not enough difference to be significant - the power in a high end phone nowadays is far in excess of what I had in a laptop ten years ago, and very few of us really need more power now than then.
The real difference from a working viewpoint are screen size and ability to add a sensible sized keyboard.
The obvious difference from a security viewpoint is that a larger device has more volume to hide stuff in (and that it wouldn't take a particularly expert engineer to use a phone in a tablet case to free up all that volume to hide stuff in.)
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