Phablet

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Make calls with a phablet like you would with a smartphone

A phablet [ ˈfæbˌlɪt ], sometimes also called a smartlet , is a particularly large, internet-enabled mobile phone , typically with a screen size between 5 and 7 inches (approx. 127 to 177 mm). It is thus a hybrid device consisting of a smartphone and tablet computer and is defined by some manufacturers and sellers as a separate device class.

In the name is a word crossing from Ph one and T ablet (or at Smartlet smart phone and tab let ), the increasingly famous nationally in the year of 2010. In the three years before, more and more mobile phones had come onto the market, which differed greatly in size from the common smartphones and their screen diagonal of typically 3.5 inches, but did not come close to the size of tablets with around 9 inches. In contrast to the tablets, which can only be used to transfer calls via data telephony (e.g. Voice over IP ), the phablets offer the telephone function that is common in smartphones.

The software on phablets usually consists of graphically upscaled versions of the smartphone apps , less often of downscaled tablet apps. Some phablets use programs specially designed for this screen size. Some phablets can be addressed via stylus , for example to write text. The handwriting recognition that works behind it is then specially programmed for the phablet.

history

The HTC Advantage X7500 from 2007 is considered the first phablet in history . B. with the AT&T EO 440, PDAs already on the market that could be used to make calls.

The emergence of the term phablet can be dated to the end of 2009, but opinions differ as to who was the first to have a lasting impact on it. Phablet first appeared on Twitter in September 2009, then again in February 2010, and then more and more frequently.

Tech journalist Ian Scales described the Dell Streak mobile phone, released in 2010, as a phablet because of its size. The cell phone expert Dan Warren of the GSM Association claims to have got the idea a few days earlier. The Dell Streak was the first mobile phone with a screen size of 5 inches. In the absence of a name for this class of large smartphones, several terms were used, including smartlet (from smartphone and tablet).

The first mobile phone, widely known as a phablet, was Samsung's Galaxy Note , released in 2011 . Contrary to many predictions by experts, the Samsung Galaxy Note became a best seller. The argument against this device was an aesthetic one: it didn't look good to hold such a large disk to your ear to make a phone call.

The term was first mentioned in the London Times in April 2012, in the New York Times the term phablet in connection with a successor to this device did not appear until February 2013:

"... a smartphone so wide that gadget blogs call it a phablet."

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The phablet can be found sporadically in the German press from spring 2012 and frequently from summer 2014. There is no German word for phablet. In English, the word is considered bulky.

Photos of phablets

Web links

Wiktionary: Phablet  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Footnotes

  1. Phablet: Anglicism Candidate of the Year 2014 , Lexicography Blog, January 15, 2015
  2. HTC Advantage (2007) . In: Sascha Segan: Enter the Phablet: A History of Phone-Tablet Hybrids . On pcmag.com on February 13, 2012
  3. AT&T EO 440 (1993) . In: Sascha Segan: Enter the Phablet: A History of Phone-Tablet Hybrids . On pcmag.com on February 13, 2012
  4. ^ The American Sloan Bowman on September 3, 2009: "With that device it would be worth getting a pay as you go account just for that phablet." . The American Tyler Smyler on February 11, 2010: “Is it a Phone? Is it a tablet? ..How about a phablet "
  5. see, inter alia, the Android Authority of October 2013 and the Wall Street Journal of September 12, 2014
  6. Samsung Galaxy Note (2012) . In: Sascha Segan: Enter the Phablet: A History of Phone-Tablet Hybrids . On pcmag.com on February 13, 2012
  7. According to its own statements, Samsung sold 5 million copies in half a year in 2012. See the announcement in cnet.com from August 15, 2012
  8. Samsung profits jump on Galaxy's charm , Times of April 6, 2012
  9. to German: “… a smartphone so big that technology blogs call it a phablet.” Brian X. Chen: Samsung Emerges as a Potent Rival to Apple's Cool , New York Times of February 10, 2013
  10. see e.g. B. Manager Magazin from April 6, 2012