For the past three years, my primary go-to smartphones have been Plus-sized iPhones. I’ve never thought of them as anything other than, well, smartphones. But research firm IDC classifies them–and all ...

The iPhone maker is leaving its mark on one of the fastest-growing mobile device markets around. Apple shares are down over 5% year-to-date, and that's following what many investors would consider a ...

Phablets -- smartphones and tablet hybrids like the Galaxy Note -- are expected to overtake smartphone shipments by 2019, according to IDC. Through 2021, phablets, which have screens between 5.5 and 7 ...

Phablets -- smartphones with screens larger than 5.5 inches -- are perhaps the lone bright spot in an otherwise listless and maturing smartphone market. In fact, research firm IDC has estimated that ...

Large-screened smartphones are set to become more popular in the years ahead, and they can make workers more productive. According to recent research from IDC, shipments of phablets — the portmanteau ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest trend in smartphones over the past few years has been big smartphones. They just keep getting bigger and bigger, and ...

In March and April, Xiaomi sold a staggering 600,000 Redmi Note 3 phablets ($135 each) according to its supremo for international business Hugo Barra. The Redmi Note 3 phenomenon continues to ...

Phablets are basically the Rodney Dangerfield of smartphones. Despite the popularity of jumbo handsets like Samsung’s Galaxy Note, they get no respect. The latest undeserved diss comes from Flurry, an ...

Microsoft has published hardware requirements for Windows 10 Mobile devices that span smartphones, phablets, and tablets. The specifications give us more details on what the company is requiring ...

Yesterday’s announcement of the HTC One Max, yet another giant-screen smartphone, confirms a growing trend — devices that straddle the line between phones and tablets, otherwise known as phablets, are ...