Phablets -- smartphones with screens larger than 5.5 inches -- are perhaps the lone bright spot in an otherwise listless and maturing smartphone market. In fact, research firm IDC has estimated that ...

For the past three years, my primary go-to smartphones have been Plus-sized iPhones. I’ve never thought of them as anything other than, well, smartphones. But research firm IDC classifies them–and all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest trend in smartphones over the past few years has been big smartphones. They just keep getting bigger and bigger, and ...

Microsoft has published hardware requirements for Windows 10 Mobile devices that span smartphones, phablets, and tablets. The specifications give us more details on what the company is requiring ...

Phablets have been outperforming the mobile device market since the launch of the Galaxy Note in 2012, according to GfK, with growth in most regions. Sales of phablets come at the expense of standard ...

Phablets are basically the Rodney Dangerfield of smartphones. Despite the popularity of jumbo handsets like Samsung’s Galaxy Note, they get no respect. The latest undeserved diss comes from Flurry, an ...

Large-screened smartphones are set to become more popular in the years ahead, and they can make workers more productive. According to recent research from IDC, shipments of phablets — the portmanteau ...

Indians love phablets and, therefore, it is not a surprise that the market is flooded with these big-screen smartphone-cum tablets across price points. The last few weeks have seen the launch of ...