Re:Bring Back the SE
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:38PM
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Er, all of your examples except maybe the HTC and the Droid Turbo and the iPhone are labelled Phablets (and Apple only because they seem to be immune to the label); the Galaxy Note series is original phablet line and the OnePlus One was bigger than the contemporary iteration of that line.
Your list reinforces the point you are using it to argue against.
Re:Bring Back the SE
by anthonybsd on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:57PM
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>Galaxy Note series is original phablet line and the OnePlus One was bigger than the contemporary iteration of that line.
No it wasn't, check the specs. My point is at the point when majority of phones were released in "phablet" sizes no one considered them to be odd anymore. 3 years earlier, perhaps but not in 2014. I remember getting zero strange looks walking around with 6 plus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_series
> The Samsung Galaxy Note series is a series of high-end Android-based _phablets_ and tablets developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_One
>Type: _Phablet_
Re:Bring Back the SE
by anthonybsd on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:38PM
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I understand that when OnePlus One was launched it was in the "Phablet" category. My point is I don't recall anyone using that label on mine (or on my IPhone 6+) because larger phones were becoming a lot more mainstream at that point.
Then we're making the same point.
The overton window has shifted so much that things that used to look ridiculous and had to be labelled as a portmanteau look ordinary today.
Wait what? This doesn't make sense. I remember getting OnePlus as well (bought it for a friend in Europe) and the screen size was pretty mainstream at that point. It had 5.46" size. It got released the same year Apple released 6+ which had bigger screen, and in US it doesn't get more mainstream than that. In no particular order a list of other pretty successful smartphones released in 2014:
- Galaxy Note 4 (5.7")
- Google Nexus 6 (6")
- HTC One (M8)(5")
- LG G3 (5.5")
- Droid Turbo (5.2")
Where do you live?