元器件交易网讯  3月19日消息，据外媒报道，现在是时候应该重新定义智能手机，平板手机将是移动设备的未来。

　　原文译文如下：

　　平板手机是平板和手机结合成一个单词，平板手机是以5英寸大屏设备为标准的。在WP领域，诺基亚Lumia 1520遵循6英寸的规则，但是三星Galaxy Mega作为量产最大的设备配备6.3英寸屏幕。

　　平板手机不只是流行一时，2013年9月国际数据公司称2013年第二季度平板手机亚洲出货量超过笔记本电脑和平板电脑。服装企业也注意到这一变化，2013年4月，Dockers服装公司副总裁表示,他们已经注意到这种趋势并开始调整裤子口袋大小“适应智能手机的增长规模”。

　　不过，并不是每个人都使用平板手机，你可能是其中之一。你也许会盯着朋友的诺基亚Lumia 1520或三星Galaxy Note3，想知道是什么技术使他们沉溺其中。然而，这就是交易，我们使用智能手机的方式正在改变，市场就是适应人们所需要的。

　　想一下你如何使用手机。虽然你可能用智能手机打电话，不用上社会科学专业课就可以想到大多数消费者经常使用手机浏览网页，更新他们的社交网络状态(Facebook、Twitter等)、拍照、发短信、玩游戏等。

　　在这个世界上，智能手机除了打电话有多种用途，需要适应消费者如何使用他们的设备。平板电脑很好，但我们不能总是带他们到处走。但是平板手机可以放在口袋里，作为一个“迷你”便携式平板电脑。最大的问题是,一些消费者停留在苹果的第一个iPhone的世界。虽然许多智能手机之前最初的iPhone,苹果公司充分大小电容式触摸屏的新标准早在2007年6月。

　　然而，我们在使用智能手机的方式正在改变，我们应不应该适应?梦想拥有一个可以折叠起来放在口袋里的平板电脑并不是什么新鲜事。2012年，索尼发布了一个可折叠的Android平板电脑称为“索尼平板P”。虽然该设备销售失败以及存在一大堆的问题，但它确实让我们体验未来的到来。

　　如果你不懂我们想让你看看平板手机设备不同。想想你的智能手机最常执行的任务，考虑多大屏幕尺寸的设备最舒适。输入电子邮件、玩游戏、和编辑照片最适合平板或平板手机大小的设备。

　　外媒原文：

　　Not everyone has adopted phablets though, and you might be one of them. You might stare at a friend’s Nokia Lumia 1520 or Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and wonder when the technology market began to lose their minds. However, here is the deal, the way we use our smartphones are changing and the market is simply adapting to what people want.

　　The Thought Process

　　Think about how you use your phone. While you probably do use your smartphone to make calls, it does not take a social science major to realize that a majority of consumers use the devices more often to browse the web, update their social network statuses (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), take pictures, send text messages, and play games.

　　In a world where smartphones have become more than a way to place a phone call manufactures need to adapt to how consumers are using their devices. Tablets are great, but we cannot always take them everywhere we go. A phablet though, that is a device that can fit in our pocket and act as a “mini” portable tablet. The biggest problem is that some consumers are stuck in the world of Apple’s first iPhone. While many smartphones preceded the original iPhone, Apple made full size capacitive touch screens the new standard back in June of 2007.

　　However, the way we are using smartphones is changing – should we not adapt? The dream of having a tablet that we could fold up and put in our pockets is nothing new. In 2012, Sony released a foldable Android tablet known as the “Sony Tablet P”. The device was a failure in terms of sales and was plagued by a collection of problems including an awkward border between the two screens and lack of software support, but it did give us a taste of the future to come.

　　The Takeaway

　　So here is what we want you to do, if you are someone that just does not understand the idea of phablets we want you to look at the devices differently. Think of the most common tasks you perform on your smartphone and think about what screen size would make those activities most comfortable. Typing emails, playing games, and editing photos are all great activities for tablet or phablet sized devices.

　　Get past the notion of “phones” and start thinking of “tablets” instead  and what you may think is a ridiculously sized device might be the perfect day-to-day companion.

　　If we have piqued your interest in the world of phablets, you can checkout our full review on the Nokia Lumia 1520 by clicking here