Talk:Nirvana Phone

Is this truly notable? Best I can tell, "NirvanaPhone" was a marketing phrase coined by Citrix which received a flurry of press in February 2010 and was promptly forgotten. Pjrich (talk) 15:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I could not agree more. I was looking up info on qHD touchscreens when I ultimately found this article. While I am not a bleeding edge adopter, I am pretty up on what's going on out there and I, for one, had never heard this phrase and searches on it could not in any way be separated from Citrix. vulture19 15:36, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I also agree. I've never heard this term. Is it a trademark of Citrix? Don't really understand the purpose of this entry. --70.167.58.6 (talk) 17:31, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

No merge. This article was originally written by someone at Citrix, the corporation that coined the term "nirvana phone", but the article was then independently rewritten to place the concept in a historical context. These earlier references naturally did not include the phrase. I believe the concept deserves to be identified, although perhaps a better term would have been "nirvana computer" since the concept is a pocket-size computer that can be readily connected to conventional (large) screen/keyboard/network peripherals to make a productive computer environment. Certainly the phrase connotes more than just a "smartphone". Not all "smartphones" are "nirvana phones". Should laptops or tablets with cellular capabilities be called "smartphones". I think not. Only time will tell if the "nirvana phone" will be a major branch of the computer's evolution. Perhaps not. As we have for the last three decades, we continue to lug a lot of screens and keyboards around with us. Mac John Concord (talk) 03:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Merge?
I think this article should be merged into SmartPhone. Almost none of the references in this article include the phrase, which I believe to be a WP:NEO anyway. There are a bunch of minor things that could be wrong with the article besides that, including a potential WP:COI (search article creator, he's an exec at Citrix).

So, methinks at some point soon, unless there is an overwhelmingly good reason presented to the contrary, I'm going to initiate the merge process.... vulture19 04:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

It seems reasonable to call this type of device something other than a smartphone. Regular smartphones can not be plugged into a large display and provide an alternative to a PC. We can expect to see more of these new type devices in the coming years, what should they be called? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Testermobile (talk • contribs) 14:51, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, the key here is the we, as a community, don't call them anything, we write and edit articles on notable and verifiable facts. There is still no notable trend, outside of citrix, that calls these Nirvana Phones. Frankly, it is a term that is not gaining traction, as gNews and gHits will indicate. Whatever notability it has can be easily covered in the smartphone article. vulture19 15:45, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * after more thought and reading, it appears that there is very little in this article that can be merged into the smartphone article. This really appears to be a neologism that never caught on. If I think about it, I will probably put this article up for deletion (without prejudice), but since I know it will be contested, I'll go the articles for deletion route. vulture19 15:59, 29 July 2011 (UTC)