1. You might carry a tablet instead of a notebook because of D. all of the above - it has longer battery life, you can listen to music on it, and you can take features, which are some of the options that many notebooks do not have. 2. A smartphone is considered a convergence device because D. it has features of a PDA (personal digital assistant) and a portable media player. Convergence refers to the fact that many different technologies are combined in one single device.