Thursday, February 27, 2014

Handset Makers Go Big on Smartphones - NYTimes.com

Brisk business for phablets; also see Phone, Meet Tablet. That’s Phabulous.

"Demand for big-screen phones is clearly strong. IDC, the research firm, estimates that at least 20 percent of all smartphones shipped last year in China, the largest smartphone market in the world, were five inches or larger. It predicts that number will balloon to 50 percent by 2017.
IDC also recently predicted that the growth of tablet sales would slow this year, partly because many people are gravitating toward larger phones and shifting away from smaller tablets."
Handset Makers Go Big on Smartphones - NYTimes.com

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