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Re:Bring Back the SE by anthonybsd on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:57PM (#20932932)
>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.

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Re:Bring Back the SE by dijit on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:04PM (#20933012)
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_

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Re:Bring Back the SE by anthonybsd on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:38PM (#20934078)
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.
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Re:Bring Back the SE by dijit on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:05PM (#20934333)
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.

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