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 ...

New data released by Flurry Analytics Thursday shows that while tablet usage slowed 20 percent in 2014, phablets -- large-screened devices like the iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note that straddle ...

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 ...

The phablet—a hybrid name of phone and tablet given to smart phones with larger screens—has become a force to be reckoned with in recent years. The popularity of Samsung’s Galaxy phone series—and ...

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 ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

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 ...