Many experts have predicted that in 2013 the year of "Phablets" is. The units with about 5 inch displays are selling well and more and more manufacturers produce the smartphone tablet hybrid. Some investors and analysts say makes Apple a huge untapped business opportunity, if not soon an iPhone with a larger display.
Not too long ago smartphones were with 5-inch screen and more of a rarity than Samsung Galaxy Note 2011 introduced its first doubted the success of the many smart phones with giant screen. Meanwhile, the critics are silenced, and the demand for "Smartlets" increases. Furthermore, display sizes up to 4.8 inches have become normality, what the sales of models such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 (4.8 "), Nexus 4 (4.7 ") or HTC One X + confirm (4.7 ") .
From left to right: iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, iPhone Mockup Plus, Galaxy Note 2 (M. Arment)
This week, some experts now signed up to speak, the call for an Apple Phablet. Among them, for example, Shaw Wu of the brokerage firm Sterne Agee who confessed that they had never expected such a success of Android smartphones with large to very large displays. In a note to investors, some Wu noted that Apple missed the time a huge business can be, as customers demand Smartlets but Apple does not get involved in this segment of the market can.
This opinion is not alone Wu, because also confirmed Ben A. Reitzes of Barclays that view. Reitzes believes that will be sold in 2015, up to 230 million 5-inch devices - for comparison: last year there were "only" 27 million.
Already in the last week delivered Instapaper developer Marco Arment suggested that Apple could develop a so-called "iPhone Plus" with a 4.94-inch display, without having to change the resolution. So app developers should not adjust their programs again, as it had 5 of the case after the release of the iPhone. The "iPhone Plus" would have. With 640 x 1136 pixels, the same resolution as the latest Apple smartphone, but instead of a pixel density of 326 ppi only 264 Arment also that a few days ago released the mockups of the oversized iPhones, assumes a considerable demand for the equipment of the Galaxy-Note-Class.
At this year's Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona in late February, we will probably have some new models get introduced to the category described. Especially Asian manufacturers seem the trend and demand for Phablets to have properly assessed and so HTC will soon bring the M7 , the ZTE Grand S , the LG Optimus Pro G or the Sony Xperia Z - all with 5-inch display. The former analyst Shaw Wu is the way, relying on sources from the supply chain of a Samsung Galaxy S4 and similar large screen, which should already be on the market in April.
What would you think about a 5-inch iPhone? You are the Phablets or Smartlets generally too big or could you imagine, in the future be the owner of a "giant smartphones" - especially if Apple made one?
[Via AppleInsider , images (Mockups): Marco Arment ]
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