Tag «Phablets»

Phablets Are So Yesterday: More Users in Asia Now Hold Tablets to Their Faces to Make Calls, IDC Reports

Singapore and Hong Kong, August 20, 2014 –Large smartphones (otherwise known as phablets), are already a growing trend in Asia, having outshipped notebooks and tablets last year.  But IDC finds that now even larger devices, tablets of 7” screen sizes and above, are increasingly shipping with cellular voice capabilities, and such devices are getting more …

Demand for mobile phones at record high – GfK

GfK findings on the telecommunications market – first half of 2013 Nuremberg, September 4th, 2013 – The global demand for mobile phones has reached a new record high. Never have as many mobile phones been sold worldwide as in the first half of 2013. In particular, the demand for smartphones, which are becoming more and …

Big Screens for Less: Phablets Overtake Both Tablet and Portable PC Shipments in Asia in Second Quarter of 2013: IDC

Singapore and Hong Kong, August 30, 2013 – Smartphones with screen sizes of 5 to just under 7 inches, colloquially known as “phablets”, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2013. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile …