About a decade ago, amidst the huge success of smartphones and tablets in the market, A new type of device is born: phablets. The technology industry has increasingly moved towards larger touch-screen devices, and the first phablets began to appear in 2012. Curiously, These days they seem to disappear by magic.

The term phablet is a combination of the words “phone” and “tablet”.. Although this is probably something you already know. Such devices are characterized by having the following features: A size between smartphone and phablet sizesIt has a screen measuring around 6 or 7 inches.

The market was slowly moving towards smartphones with larger and larger screens, and with the dominance of Apple’s iPad phablets disappeared like a sigh.

Chronicle of an unannounced death: iPad killed the phablet

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It is interesting, is not it? At first we all wanted to have smaller and smaller phones. There were tiny smartphones! I remember my first iPhone SE, how beautiful it was! But this trend of buyers came long before the advent of the smartphone. Years ago!

I clearly remember how many consumers there were in the mobile phone era. They opted to have a smaller phone so it would fit in their pocket and be better maneuverable.. Of course, the first mobile phones in history were huge. Huge bricks with antennas. Then came the explosion of the slightly smaller and incredibly shock-resistant Nokia 3210.

Manufacturers also started to design folding phones meet demand. And it worked. Wow it worked. There were even phones detachable keyboard To reduce the dimensions of the terminal.

Do you remember phones? Blackberry? Oh my god, they were so small! Or Nokia N80, with sliding keyboard. Although it’s the weirdest Nokia design that takes the cake Nokia 5510, it looked like a portable game console! When were these?

Now this trend is starting to change as software advances allow more and more functions to be included in operating systems. Gradually, Smartphone screens were getting bigger.

And if we add to this The arrival of the iPad and its many variants… put an end to the death of phablets. Who wants a phablet when you have an iPad or iPad mini? Rest in peace.

Phablet evolved into larger smartphones

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Nowadays, those who do not want an 8-inch iPad mini prefer to go for the iPhone 15 Pro Max or another smartphone with a 6.7-inch to 6.9-inch screen.

Fortunately, Available for phones and tablets in all possible formats. From smartphones around 3.4 inches like the iPhone 4s to the huge iPad Pro with a 13-inch screen, the 4.7-inch iPhone SE or the 6.1-inch iPhone 15.

Who knows, maybe the iPad will destroy the iPhone in the future. Or will it be the other way around? We’ll be here to tell you.

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