In the United States, people routinely mock extra-big smartphones that approach tablet-computer dimensions. Maybe it's time to stop snickering. Demand for these odd-sized devices is growing so fast in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phablets aren't just a passing craze, new data show. Shipments of the phone-tablet hybrids will surpass portable PC shipments this ...

God help us. Phablets are officially a thing. According to Juniper Research, phablets are expected to hit 120 million units shipped by 2018, up from the estimated 20 million phablets shipped last year ...

It seems like the phablet market could be about to draw the attention of tech companies to an even greater extent with new data from research firm IDC showing the large-phone-small-tablet form factor ...

Flurry, an app analytics firm with a presence on some now 1 billion mobile devices, has taken another deep dive into its large data set to examine the increasingly fragmented selection of hardware ...

The term “phablet” has been legitimized after being added to the Oxford Online Dictionary. Haters are undoubtedly cringing, as the term has been subject to considerable derision. Heck, even the tech ...

It was just over a year ago that the phablet became official — at least in terms of being recognized with an official entry in the Oxford Online Dictionary. The picture is very different in 2014.

The so-called phablet movement---popularized mostly by Samsung---may merely be a passing fad, according to data compiled by Flurry, an app advertising network. The problem: Samsung's Galaxy S4 is ...

That's in terms of sales, not screen size. The firm says shipments of the phone-tablet hybrids will reach 318 million in 2015, more than tablet and portable PC shipments. Shara Tibken was a managing ...