Huawei has registered the trademark PhoPad, which is very suggestive given that there are references to two different formats, the phone and tablet. The mixture between these two so far has been approached mostly with the phablet format although there are some exceptions in which the tabletphone. We do not know what the Chinese company will have in hand, but it seems that that is where the shots will go.
CES 2014 is approaching in Las Vegas, which will be the scene of many presentations and where we can see the new paths that the industry takes regarding formats. The irruption of the tablet in the last couple of years has increased our comfort to a good size touch screen and we have seen how the idea of a tablet expanded entering the field of the laptop and the phone, generating hybrids and mixtures.
The registration in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which they showed us on the Internet, does not tell us anything concrete about the model, so we only have a suggestive name and the recent history of Huawei.
The Ascend Mate was for a few months the largest phablet one could get. Now there are other larger options, bordering on the exaggeration of the Xperia Z Ultra. Now we know that the experiment worked and we have heard of a second Huawei Ascend Mate 2 thanks to some recent leaks.
New solutions between phone and tablet
In short, they continue to bet on the idea of an oversized phone that provides some sensations close to the tablet. With Huawei PhoPad You may be betting on another idea or perhaps you are just looking for a marketing effect, as Asus has already tried with its PadFone and FonePad brands. For its part, Samsung has used another concept, Fablet, to refer to devices of the future that will resolve the conflict between the two formats with folding screens in between.