GearNuke: "After smartphones, the next mobile devices that were going to sell like hot cakes were tablets. However, there are several reasons as to why the tablet industry had suffered a decline in the year 2013."
Apple Inc. is preparing to release a trio of new smartphones later this year: the largest iPhone ever, an upgraded handset the same size as the current iPhone X and a less expensive model with some of the flagship phone’s key features.
Larger smartphones, also known as "phablets", continued to increase their popularity in 2017, with over half of all mobile devices in use now belonging in this category, according to Flurry's State of Mobile 2017 report.
55 % of devices fell into the "phablet" category, compared to 41 per cent in 2016. Small and medium phones, as well as small and full-sized tablets, all saw declines, with medium phones in particular ceding ground to the more popular phablets, and dropping from 44 per cent in 2016 to 35 per cent in 2017.
The V-series of phablets was conceived as a novel take on the phablet with a secondary ticker display. Well, that lasted for two product cycles, and the secondary screen is no more. Instead, the LG V30 is all screen.
