Phablets score 21% of Q1 2015 smartphone sales in the US, Apple's iPhone 6 Plus leads the pack

Phablets score 21% of Q1 2015 smartphone sales in the US, Apple's iPhone 6 Plus leads the pack:

According to a new report from Kantar Worldpanel, phablets accounted for 21 percent of all US smartphone sales during the first quarter of 2015. During in the first quarter of 2014, estimates show that phablets represented just 6 percent of all smartphone sales in the US, meaning that phablets nearly quadrupled their slice of the smartphone pie in just a year. Although the term is now starting to lose its identity, any smartphone with a screen size of 5.5 inches or larger is considered to be a phablet.



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