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The screen size boom was later. Look at the iphone 5
Apple was slow to adopt larger screens. The Android phones of that time were roughly an inch larger. Apple rarely blazed any trails.
https://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/20/top-10-android-phones-of-2012/
Exactly. Apples biggest success has been looking at all the options being tested by other manufacturers, choosing the option they want, then completely eliminating all other options and convincing people in droves that what they are offering is what you want.
and that it was their idea
To be fair, until about a decade ago, they did generally ~~steal~~ pick the best of available options.
Phones with large screens used to be called phablets, nobody calls them that anymore because they're all phablets now.
It’s unfortunate. I’d love a small, privacy respecting phone. Bonus points if it has an eink display.
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I must have been in a coma for that. When was this?
Roughly 2010-2015
Phablets were larger than modern screens; in the 8-9" range. You were lucky to fit one in a back pocket.
Phablets were in the 5-7" range, everything above that was definitely a tablet.
No, I saw 4" media devices be called media tablets (hello Archos) whole phones were stuck on 2.5" to 3"
And after that as phone sizes grew, 6-7" screens were called phablets
Tablets started at 7 or 8 inches. Phablets were in the 5-7 range somewhere generally.
The HTC EVO 4G was the first phone I remember being called a phablet. It had a 4.3" screen.