Why are they called phablets? They are no bigger than most cell phones my kids and wife have. I confess to woeful ignorance, probably willful too. When I buy though, I want to understand a bit more than what some pimply faced kid tells me, or my children who buy advertising, not quality.
"Phablet" is a contraction of Phone and Tablet coined by the reviewers of smartphones in a sort of derogatory appellation, as they filled the niche between tablets and smartphones. They are a tablet with phone capabilities. There were jokes going around about people holding iPads up to their ears, mimicking phones being used to make calls and showing how ridiculous it would be to use a tablet as a phone. . . and some did look pretty ridiculous (there were some phablets with 7" screens).