Phablets??

Cross between a phone and a tablet ... 

Kindly sent to me by Terri Weston

Jenneth Orantia from Sydney Morning Herald

Never heard of phablets before? They are – quite literally – the next big thing in mobility. Slightly larger than a smartphone and a fair bit smaller than a tablet (especially the iPad-sized ones), the idea is that they occupy a happy middle ground for power users that want a single device that does everything.

The only thing that irks me is the name. Phablet. There's a special place in hell for whoever coined this word. It's on the same level of stupidity as hybrid celebrity names like “Brangelina” or “Bennifer”. I'm taking a stand: from now on, I'm calling them tablet-phones.

Whatever you want to call them (and please make it “tablet-phone”), the latest sales figures indicate there's definitely a demand. Recently, Samsung announced that it had sold five million of the new Galaxy Note tablet-phones worldwide in the first five months of its release. Not bad for an as-yet unproven form factor, especially since it wasn't available in the United States until February and only just launched in Australia this month.
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 http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/what-are-phablets-20120403-1w9zq.html#ixzz1r8cSNRwS