A new word to the lexicon ... the "phablet"

6 comments

• joker44

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  10 years ago

  Thanks papi.
  Phablet-no so new. I first heard it when smartphones with 5+ inch screens were near release about a year ago.
  
  Since I have a 7" tablet, large screen phones don't interest me. For me the phone screen 'sweet spot' is 4.7 - 5 inch. Easy to carry, use, and pocket. Larger phones are to big to handle; might as well use my tablet which has better screen resolution and is faster.
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  My primary phone is an app on my iPad II, and so my phone has looked like a tablet for years.
  
• Dolfan

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  10 years ago

  The phablet term has been around/fairly popular since at least the Original Samsung Galaxy Note. I can't say I'm a fan of bigger than about 5" screens, but a fair amount of people I encounter are. Its kinda interesting to me where exactly the line is drawn, with the normal phones around 5" - the big phones in the 6" neighborhood (One Max, Galaxy Mega) and then the Note / Mate line over 6" I have no interest in the "smart" watches either, but the two seem to go together. A little watch + a big ass phone in a purse/briefcase might make a compelling combo for some.
  
• lopaw

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  10 years ago

  I had lunch recently with a friend who had his new Galaxy wrapped in an Otter Box. I asked him if he liked his new laptop. He laughed and then started complaining how the damn thing doesn't fit in his pocket and sucks down battery life like crazy.
• sharkhunter

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  10 years ago

  Maybe someone will start making fold out phones sooner or later. I've seen something like film and I've seen something like two smart phone screens with a hinge. What they need that might work is a combo fold out with something resembling film but attached at the end to something firmer so that you can slide it out to enlarge the screen. I'd love to have a combo phone/ tablet that I could fold up and carry in my pocket.
• gatorfan

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  10 years ago

  Just walk around with your flatscreen