Just because people are trying it en masse doesn't mean it's here to stay. There are three things we know from experience: 1) Tablets seemed like a lovely ide

Just because people are trying it en masse doesn't mean it's here to stay. There are three things we know from experience: 1) Tablets seemed like a lovely idea, but after a while we got tired of their limitations compared to laptops combined with their portability compared two phones. They're useful on occassion, but they didn't quite hit the sweet spot. And we still need an e-ink device for comfortable reading. 2) Smartphones are really cool, but they have limited usefulness when trying to do something a bit more complex. An improvement over dumb phones and feature phones, but not quite the sweet spot either. 3) We would really, really like to be able to stop carrying 4 devices around. So "phablets" (I hate that name) are the next attempt to be all things (or at least more than one thing) to all people. And everyone is trying them out, just like tablets before them. One hint that they're not here to stay is the pathetically desperate way people try to justify the clumsiness of their expensive purchase. Seriously, I constantly see people messing with these huge things going "no, it's not too big, really, I love it!" while they're desperately trying to operate it without dropping it. It's kind of tragic, and really emphasises it as a fashion driven fad.