KDT
On Monday, July 7, 2014 3:40:42 PM UTC-4, Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy wrote:

Harry Mudd the Anti-Fanboy
I mean really, c'mon. Those tech sites have hopped on an industry

buzzword regardless if it is inaccurately used. As if that is the

first time it has ever happened... ...imagine that.

KDT
So where do you think the industry buzzword originated -- it wasn't from the manufacturers -- it was from tech sites.

http://www.androidauthority.com/phablet-history-279494/

Who is to blame?

Cast your eye over the chart above, taken from Google Trends, and you'll see the search term "phablet" began to gain real interest in January 2012. It has generally been associated with the surprise success of Samsung's original Galaxy Note, first unveiled in September 2011. But references to the term go further back than that. Tech journalist Ian Scales used the word phablet to describe the Dell Streak in a Telecom TV article back in 2010. But on Twitter, Dan Warren of GSMA claims that it was him who first coined the term. Regardless of who said it first, it definitely came after the form factor.