BlackBerry has confirmed earlier rumours that it was flirting with building a phablet and quietly taken the wraps off its biggest phone yet: the all-touch BlackBerry Z30 packs a 5-inch Super AMOLED ...

Like it or not, the word "phablet" is here to stay – and so are the supersized smartphones that the word describes. Though the category was once practically synonymous with the Samsung Galaxy Note, ...

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 7 has been dubbed a "phablet," because it is not a phone, not yet a tablet, and, I don't know, I guess there weren't enough dumb, made-up words already? To be fair, ...

In Apple's future as a luxury tech brand, there will be phones and there will be tablets but there will never be phablets. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help ...

In the early days of the smartphone they all had tiny screens by today's standards. We didn't care, they fit easily in the hand and did everything we needed. Then display creep set in as OEMs started ...

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"Phablet" may be a horrible word, but it was a pretty accurate descriptor when Samsung launched its then-massive Galaxy Note way back in 2011. Since then, it's become difficult to find a premium ...

As unlikely as it may seem, this is shaping up as a contest between Samsung and Microsoft, if only because Apple didn't think it was a race worth running. Just when it looked as if consumer demand for ...

I am not sure how long Samsung has been following Apple's business model, but being first is not always best. I have been somewhat amused by Samsung's current TV ads, which depict the electronics ...

“When we first made the Note, not everybody knew what to make of it.” It’s not often you see a tech company troll pundits about their past reactions to its products. But at Thursday’s Samsung ...

The popularity of large screen smartphones, known as phablets, isn’t abating, and demand for the devices is expected to outstrip that for portable PCs, according to research firm IDC. Phablet ...

Too bad there isn't an "emoji" that can properly depict the look on grammar gurus' faces when they find out that the word "twerk" has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO). It would ...