While a large-screen tablet offers the best experience for media consumption and gaming, a smaller-screen tablet appeals more toward employees who use tablets for work.

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Wiens predicts an array of enterprise uses for the iPad mini wherever . The iPad may be extremely portable compared to a laptop, but it's not very mobile in terms of in-the-field use like a smartphone. The smartphone, on the other hand, is too small to get much work done.

"With service manuals, you need to see pictures to do repairs, which makes the iPad much more usable than the iPhone," Wiens says. "Yet you might be in tight places, so something in between would be reasonable."

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