“fablets”
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/ˈfæblɪt/
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*diagonal display measure* –>
‘170 mm’ – ‘180 mm’
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*the phablet is a class of ‘mobile devices’ combining (or ‘straddling’) the ‘size format’ of ‘smartphones’ + ‘tablets’*
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The word itself is a portmanteau of the words phone + tablet.
Phablets feature large displays that complement screen-intensive activity such as mobile web browsing and multimedia viewing.
They may also include ‘software’ optimized for an integral self-storing stylus to facilitate sketching, note-taking and annotation.
Phablets were originally designed for the Asian market where consumers could not afford both a smartphone and tablet as in North America;
phones for that market are known for having “budget-specs-big-battery” with large low resolution screens and midrange processors, although other phablets have flagship specifications.
Since then, phablets in North America have also become successful for several reasons:
Android 4.0 and subsequent releases of Android were suited to large as well as small screen sizes, while older consumers preferred larger screen sizes on smartphones due to deteriorating eyesight.
(while Samsung’s Galaxy Note (2011) is largely credited with popularizing the phablet when launched in 2011, examples of earlier devices with similar form factors date to 1993)
The popularity of phablets grew dramatically in 2012, as a successor to the original Galaxy Note, along with the falling costs and increasing power efficiency of smartphone displays, began to fuel competition in the market from other smartphone manufacturers, including
Lenovo,
LG,
HTC,
Huawei,
Micromax,
and Sony;
IHS,
Samsung reported that 25.6 million phablets were sold in 2012 alone.
Due to the market’s growth, Reuters called 2013 the “Year of the Phablet”
In 2014, noting that phablets had overtaken laptops and desktops in global sales, The New York Times said “phablets could become the dominant computing device of the future – the most popular kind of phone on the market, and perhaps the only computer many of us need’)
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(since around ‘2015’, most ‘smartphones’ have ‘screen sizes’ larger than ‘5.5 inches’, technically making them ‘phablets’, but this term has fallen out of use)
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