Phablets had their moment of success but now they have practically disappeared from the face of the Earth
About a decade ago, amid the great market success of smartphones and tablets, A new type of device was born: phablets. The technology industry moved towards increasingly larger touchscreen devices and in 2012 the first phablets began to appear. Curiously, Nowadays they seem to have disappeared as if by magic.
The term phablet refers to the combination of the words “phone” and “tablet.”. Although that’s something you probably already know. This type of devices were characterized by having a size that was between the dimensions of a smartphone and a phabletwith a screen that measured around 6 or 7 inches.
Little by little, the market was moving towards smartphones with increasingly larger screens and, together with the dominance of Apple’s iPad, phablets ended up vanishing into thin air like a sigh.
Chronicle of an unannounced death, the iPad killed the phablet
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It’s curious, right? At first we all wanted to have smaller and smaller phones. There were tiny smartphones! I remember my first iPhone SE, how nice it was! But this inclination on the part of buyers came long before the appearance of the smartphone. Many years ago!
In the era of mobile phones, I clearly remember how many consumers They preferred to have a smaller phone so that it would fit in their pockets and have better maneuverability. Although, obviously, the first mobile phones in history were gigantic. Huge bricks with antennas. Then came the boom of the Nokia 3210, a little smaller and with amazing impact resistance.
Manufacturers, for their part, began to design folding phones to meet the demand. And it worked. Wow it worked. There were even telephones with removable keyboard to reduce the dimensions of the terminal.
Do you remember telephones blackberry? Good God, they were tiny! Or the Nokia N80, with a sliding keyboard. Although the strangest Nokia design that took the cake was the Nokia 5510, it looked like a portable game console! What times those were, huh?
Now, this inclination began to vary as software advances allowed more and more functions to be incorporated into operating systems. Little by little, Smartphone screens were getting bigger.
And if we add to this The appearance on the scene of the iPad and its many variations… ended the death of phablets. Who would want a phablet when you could have an iPad or an iPad mini? Rest in peace.
The phablet evolved into larger smartphones
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Nowadays, those who do not want an 8-inch iPad mini prefer to opt for an iPhone 15 Pro Max or another smartphone with a 6.7-inch to 6.9-inch screen.
Fortunately, There are phones and tablets available in all possible formats. From smartphones of about 3.4 inches like the iPhone 4s to a gigantic iPad Pro with a 13-inch screen, through the 4.7 inches of the iPhone SE or the 6.1 inches of the iPhone 15.
Who knows, maybe in the future the iPad will also end up killing the iPhone. Or will it be the other way around? We will be here to tell you.
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