Hate the word phablet? Well Nokia isn't too sure of it either

If you guys haven’t heard, Nokia is working on a new device for the release of GDR3. The Lumia 1520 will be a phone of many firsts on Windows Phone. It will come with a 1080p display, quad core processor, and much more when it launches sometime in the near horizon – possibly early November on AT&T.

The device will also be 6-inches, making it the largest Windows Phone ever. Devices in that range straddle the line between smartphones and tablets, so naturally the media attached the name “phablets” to machines like that. Most of you really dislike that word. And so might Nokia.

Like any good company, Nokia does their market research before making plans with new devices. Sometimes that market research comes in the form of surveys sent out. A handful of you have been sending in surveys that point to upcoming researching from Nokia. They’re focused on the name of new products that are larger screen smartphones. So something like the Lumia 1520.

Here are some of the questions being asked:

Pretty straightforward. Nokia isn’t sure quite sure how to market a smartphone with a larger screen. Something they’re going to be doing pretty soon.

So what do you guys think of the word phablet? Hate it? Love it? Sound off below.

Also, can you think of something better?

Thanks for the tips/screenshots Matt and everyone!

242 Comments

Tablone lol
+1 for Tablone.
Palmpad.
Smartscreen.
Smartpad.
Padlet.
Smartglass would be an awesome name... but is already taken.
+1 Smartscreen
+ Tobleron :p
lol
LSD (large screen device)
Some of the flower power generation may get excited about this name ;)
Chill, don't go nuts ;)
Haha all I can think of is Toblerone. Aaaaaand now im hungry.
Sonofabitch now I want a toblerone too...
Phablet used to bother me, but not anymore. Also it's just not that important to me what people call them, I'll keep calling them phablets.
The word still bothers me, sounds like a Tablet with a Phallus.
But maybe it's just my brains being corrupted.
Smarblet?
Tableau?
Moblet
Tabile
(sarcasm alert) Yeah, why call a laptop a laptop? I never use it on my lap. Never. It's a computer. So just call it a computer. Why refer to vehicles as trucks, semis, cars, etc? They are all vehicles. Just call'em vehicles. Why call a mug a mug? A pint glass a pint glass? A goblet a goblet? They are all glasses. Just call any of the differing form factor of glasses - glasses. Make it simple. Sure, it seems absolutely pointless to delineate products in the same family with a somewhat realistic name of how the product is actually being used. Don't you think? A "phablet" is a phablet. That's what it is. The name doesn't bother me at all. But the form factor does. It is not to my liking one bit. Those darn "Large Phones" are just too large. :) But to those who like'm more power to you.
I have to disagree! A mug would only fit into the category of a "glass" if it were made of glass, otherwise it would be in the cup category. Although thinking about it cups may or may not have handles, mugs always have handles, so maybe they are deserving of a separate category.
:) A mug by any other name is still a mug. Lol! To Nokia and others. A Phablet is what it is, a phone in a tablet form. There are digital phones, there are satellite phones, there are cell phones, there are car phones, there are rotary phones. These are all specific genres of phones. But they're phones. And there's a reason why we refer to them by a specific description versus just - phone. The sooner we get use to the term phablet the better off we'll all be. :)
Is a stein a mug?
Dinner plate.
If it has Gorilla Glass and is waterproof, you can call it Cutting board
Ha! XD +1520
I don't really see the need for a unique name for a bigger smartphone. The name Nokia Lumia 1520 itself makes anyone see that it's a higher end phone.
When Nokia released the 920 they didn't put "new windowsphone, buy it." in the name. The glory that Nokia products have is that it's clear which one is better thanks to clear product names unlike "experia z" becase with that name you have to do research if it's actually better.
Nokia should market it as the new Nokia Lumia 1520 and from there use some fancy slogan like "WindowsPhone reimagined" but don't use that because Nokia are masters at marketing and i think they can comeup with something awesome :)
Its a bad word, but its functional
It really is. I almost want to start using slab instead. Slab - a phone with a screen smaller than 7 inches. "The Lumia 1520. Time for a slender slab of your own." ... I'll show myself out.
+1 for SLAB!
We can call bloated Androids Flabs... Trolololol
I was gonna say the same thing. That and phonetab.
PhoneTab it should be the name covers everything
Just call em bricks. Like the old cell phones from the 90's.
Or the original 30 GB Zune.
BFP
lol
That's a good-un.
LOL....
Love it!
+1520
Nice!
"Phablet" sounds like something that should have VTech on the box. Don't worry though, Apple will "invent" one soon enough and name it.
Yea, they will call it the iPhab...
Better than the iPhap. Granted, the iPad's pretty bad too.
Remember all the tampon jokes when the iPad first came out.
Why not just call it a smart phone. That's really all it is.
This, why even bother
Yep
Most that work in the cell phone industry do
Heh. I already doing this. I even call those Galaxy Notes smartphones (except for 7" or larger screen :p).
Exactly.
Yup. It's not like we have names for different size screen laptops. A 13" laptop or a 17" laptop. So this is just a 6" smartphone vs a 4" smartphone.
Maxiphones.
lol
LOL a have a very similar name for iPads
Haha yeah - it's funny how many people don't get that joke.
I joked when the iPad Mini came out that it was a tablet for your "light" days.
Mini TV
Two hander?
Zweinhander maybe?
BSD "big screen device" LSD "large screen device" zetta?
LSD or just Acid. LOL
Or WEED
Wide extra enlarged dislay
Now you're talking!
I'd have a couple of those
"What's that in your pocket ?!"
"Officer its just my WEED!"
BAP
FAP
Fabulously Annoying Phone
Phablet sounds like shit
Smartphone Is better
I can't stand it, and said so in the questionnaire...but I was unable to think of what I WOULD call it...other than just a large screen phone. Why confuse it all by making up a new word for the device based on one of its many features...? Every smartphone (which one would assume is unique in some way) cannot have an equally unique device name. No, like I say, it's better to just call it a smartphone, and if more specifics are needed, just describe it... It's a large screen phone.
People who own and use these as phones look ridiculous and should be mocked. Its like they are answering some comedy joke giant phone in a play school skit.
Times will change. Same could have been said about 4inch screen not long time ago.
There were 25 milloin phablets sold last year and sales doubled compared to last quarter. Phablets made 35% of all smartphones sold in India and takes over 20% of phones sold in world largest smartphone market, China.
That just means more people will look ridiculous than we thought.
Maybe you're the ridiculous one for thinking they're ridiculous? My Note 2 works fine as a phone and I'll never go for anything smaller than 5" again.
Anyone who is holding their phone up to their ear instead of using a BT device should be mocked anyway.
What's your Bluetooth device? I tried many and couldn't be used with it... Nokia triangular is the worst I tried
Bt headsets suck ass
No, Javier, only having one hand free while you're on the phone sucks. But then, I guess it depends on whether or not productivity is in your vocabulary.
The issue that I have with bluetooth hands-free headsets is that they are very impersonal and make for awkward social situations. Holding a phone up to your ear sends a message.
Having a headset on 24/7.... well it sends a message too, but it's usually not a nice one :)
Like Google Glass?
Yes, exactly :)
I've got a Motorola H730. Looks like a mini-chainsaw, but I've had 12-hour convos using it... Flat speaker rests against ear instead of jammed into ear canal, so it's very comfortable. Best battery life of any BT I've seen.
Using it with my Lumia 920. Also works with my laptop for Skype.
If you're talking about sitting at your desk then a BT device is fine. If you're walking around with a douchebag identification device in your ear while you walk around talking to yourself then not only should you be mocked but you should be rounded up and dropped off on an island so you don't mess up the gene pool here.
^^^now that's some funny s**t^^^
I can't, ppl will think I'm a schizophrenic. (seriously)
+1 People holding the Note, & other phablets, up to their head look ridiculous. It's like taking photos with an iPad :P
Call it the Nokia Lumia 1520 and forget about what group of device it falls into it. People will call it what they want to.
How about " Megacell " :D
If it is a smartphone just call it what it is :the xlphone
Slab! I'm gonna make it a thing, you bet your bottom dollar friends!
Phone-ormous? Giganti-Phone?... Or maybe, Phonezilla.
All of the above.
MegaPhone?!
I say Comp-U-Tab....computab seeing the functionality Microsoft gives its users with the ability to perform work with the inclusion of office, one note, and even SharePoint if you have a server & market it highlighting that functionality and while working, someone calls in using Skype pointing out it can always be used as a phone.
Like Dan and Jay said once, LSDs (Large Screen Devices).
We could call them "Enormoes"
I say keep it real simple and to the point.. Nokia 1520 "Jumbo"
Jumbo it is
Big Smart
BS, I like it.
Smartphone Tab
(medical terminology)
Lol
LLADWU
Looking Like A Dumbass While Using
You win!
Idgaf what they wanna call it .. I just want it.
Me too!
Tabletphone, phablet sounds the same in all the 10000 non-English languages out there spoken by 80% of the world population.
Awful.
I'd rather call them by their name: dinner-tray phones. =P
I like BFP and BAP, but to truly market to people's vanity, call it a smarterphone.
How about OFS ("Overcompensating For Something")?
Poor eye-sight? Large fingers? :P :P
Most likely yes
The Hulk should get that
"Nokia isn't sure quite sure".. Gotta love proof reading. lol.. I don't really mind the name phablet.. At the end of the day, it explains what it is, just go with the flow
^This
Slate.
+1 for Slate
When cellphones where the size of a brick, we had no problem calling them cellphones.
*mobile phones. Only Americans called them "cellphones"
I really liked when Microsoft called their original tablets "slates." Could we repurpose "Slate" for these phones?
When I hear slate I think about the slate roofing
I think about lying on the beach with at least 50 beautiful women and a small team of experts...
Extra Smart Phone
Phablet is wrong, but all I can come up with so far is "slab". This is a toughie...
the iphone with a 3.5 inch screen was a smartphone. the galaxy s4 with a 5 inch screen is a smartphone. the galaxy note is still a smart phone. i think as long as it can be used as a phone, it should be just a smartphone. but they all have different screen sizes. so what. no 2 smart phones have the same screen size. whats the big deal
Don't really mind calling them phablets really. That's how names evolve sometimes.
Yup. It's an established name by now. Maybe informal, but works.
Mega Phone!!
Well, Samsung Galaxy Mega comes to mind... so... no.
Exactly, Megaphone. Its a word that is already familiar to people and would/could be quickly learned by the masses.
Phone 6 Inches. What's wrong with telling like it is?
Half-a-foot-phone
Demi-Foot phone
My daughter says that since it is a Nokia, it's indestructible. So maybe we should just call it a weapon. Or as the WowHead in the house says, BFS.
"Weapon" it is. The Nokia Lumia Weapon
Clown Phone and you need to ride around in a tiny car when using it.
Ha ha, made me laugh ☺
i vote for Slate
Dear Nokia... if rumors are correct... that it doesnt have a stylus or special applications to take advantage of large 6" screen... you should call it a phone/smartphone with 6" display and nothing else... because its nothing more than a big phone :)
Otherwise...
SmartPad or LumiaPad or somehting else... But definitely not Phablet
However... whatever it may be called I am intersted in this device :)
Good point.
How about....Surface?....nevermind.
Fine with every name as long as I get it ASAP. I would call it the LLumia... The first L for large :)
Just ridiculous!
Call it Nokia that says it all
BFS! (Big Fu**ing Smartphone)
+1
How about Ultrone
Like ultron from marvel made by tony stark ironman
John Phones

"Why yes, that's a phone in my pocket."
The Nokia Bulge - Everyone will be happy to see you.
I'd call it boner because it's bigger than the usual one.
MiniTab or MinTab or Milet
Call it mini-tv Phone! MTP hahahaha
I never liked phablet. It not a tablet. It a phone albeit a large one. Find a name and call it a day.
Go go SuperPhone
LumiARRRRGH!
Or lightab?
It's a super phone. The size & specs proves it all. "super phone"... The Ad would go something like, "the windows phone super phone Nokia Lumia 1520"
Tween
Call it the Lumia " 'Murican 'dition".
Tricorder! Oh wait that's probably copyright protected. Bunker Buster. Nah, too violent. WTTW-Window To The World. Nickname-Whatwhat! OMG - cuz that's what she said. JIB - Jesus Its Big - cuz that's what she said. CHOKER - cuz...oh, nevermind. Seriously, its not just a phone anymore, but what phone is? Call them global or universal communication devices (unicomm? glocom?) or live with the damn phablet, though saying it feels stupid.
They should throw out the name 1520, and actually brand it the Nokia Phablet with Windows Phone 8...this way, whenever someone else calls their phone a "phablet", Nokia can cash in (or get notoriety, either way).
Simply continue calling it a smartphone. Its a smartphone with a 6" display.
Phonezilla. :)
Lumina---- cause so many folks apparently think that is the current way to spell the Nokia line. This ain't 90's Detroit!
Notepad? Padphone device? I like the sound of these, but that's just me.
PHulk
Aw, just submitted this tip to WMPoweruser an hour or two ago!
Call it Luminati
Lumizilla
My suggestions:

- Lumia G
- Lumia XL
- Lumia +
- Lumia Tane (TAblet + smartphoNE)
- Lumia Bag
I would support a Lumia XL or Lumia +. Even a "Lumia One"
Nintendo have their DS and XL range, so it will sound acceptable.
I like the Tane, sound pretty nice.
I want a Lumia Tane
Why not call it a "smartphone+" to differentiate it from a smartphone?
It's a More Phone.
Just call it a 6inch smartphone. Period. Or like Blueiii said "Smartphone+"
BAP
(BIG ASS PHONE)
LOL
"All-Smart" smart in everything! Only if new and exciting apps that make use of this much real-estate.
Nokia Lumia 1520 - A freak phone engineered for the Hulk.
Megaphone!
Mega Lumia!
How about "Phone" ?
Those are my screen shots :) my name isn't Matt though (I know, nobody cares) :-P
Hermaphrone - The best of both worlds...
actually Nokia loves the name it just letting knows that a phablet is coming
LSDs (Large screen devices) would be my pick. It's addictive though.
Phablet is uninspiring and dumb (to me) but the unpunctuated contraction does convey its meaning just fine.
SuperPhone is simple enough
I love phablet
BBP..Big Beautiful Phone :)
How about call it the Nokia Lumia Surface Phone 8? Nokia's being bought out by Microsoft anyway, wouldn't make a difference with the copyright. It makes sense since Windows tablets are called Surfaces, & basically it's a mini-tablet with a built-in phone. This can be the Surface Phone that never was.
YES
Brick House