wraggster
May 7th, 2015, 18:36
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Extra-large phones have been hot stuff in some countries for a long while (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/01/the-ever-expanding-smartphone-screen/), but not so much in the US. The country must have had a change of heart in the past few months, however. Kantar Worldpanel estimates (http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/US-phablet-market-soars--) that gigantic devices jumped from 6 percent of American smartphone sales in the first quarter of last year to 21 percent in early 2015. Why? If you ask Kantar, the launch of the iPhone 6 Plus (http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/16/iphone-6-and-6-plus-review/) was partly responsible -- it racked up 44 percent of all supersized phone sales despite being just a few months old. The analyst group isn't saying much in public how other brands were doing, although it's safe to say that category pioneer Samsung grabbed a large slice of the pie thanks to high-powered behemoths like the Galaxy Note 4 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/15/samsung-galaxy-note-4-review/).
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/06/giant-phones-take-off-in-us/
Extra-large phones have been hot stuff in some countries for a long while (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/01/the-ever-expanding-smartphone-screen/), but not so much in the US. The country must have had a change of heart in the past few months, however. Kantar Worldpanel estimates (http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/US-phablet-market-soars--) that gigantic devices jumped from 6 percent of American smartphone sales in the first quarter of last year to 21 percent in early 2015. Why? If you ask Kantar, the launch of the iPhone 6 Plus (http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/16/iphone-6-and-6-plus-review/) was partly responsible -- it racked up 44 percent of all supersized phone sales despite being just a few months old. The analyst group isn't saying much in public how other brands were doing, although it's safe to say that category pioneer Samsung grabbed a large slice of the pie thanks to high-powered behemoths like the Galaxy Note 4 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/15/samsung-galaxy-note-4-review/).
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/06/giant-phones-take-off-in-us/