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What is a Phablet these days?

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/what-is-a-phablet-these-days.184796/

ratul
ratul Original post #1
Jun 21, 2014 at 2:54 PM
So i was just thinking about the increasing phone sizes these days and was thinking that a few years back, any portable cellphone of >5" screen was considered to be a phablet, and that was the definition of a phablet, but seeing that almost all of the flagships these days are shattering this 5" mark and calling these humongous things to be "Smartphones", so what's the definition of a phablet these days?
Is there any stop to this stupid screen increase, resolution ramming trend?
ashs1
ashs1 #2
Jun 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM
Phablet : a smartphone having a screen which is intermediate in size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer.

Judging by the market, i think the typical phablet screen size ranges from 5.5-6.5 inches. :)
$hadow
$hadow #3
Jun 21, 2014 at 3:35 PM
New boundary of phablet can be observed anything above 5.7''
Nanducob
Jun 21, 2014 at 9:59 PM
5.7''=smartphone
7.0''=tablet
So anything around that 1.3" is phablet :D
the term phablet is going to extinct in few years