tablet, “phablet,”

The bigger-screen phone was in tune with consumer tastes. When iPhones were shrinking in size, the Galaxy Note anticipated the shift to bigger handsets, which earned it the nickname “phablet,” a mashup of phone and tablet.

tablet

NOUN

• 1A flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription.

  ‘at the corner of the apse is a memorial tablet’

  1. 1.1Architecture
     another term for table
• 2British A small disc or cylinder of a compressed solid substance, typically a measured amount of a medicine or drug.

  ‘headache tablets’

  ‘ecstasy tablets’

  1. 2.1A small block or bar of soap.
• 3A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse.
• 4North American A writing pad.
• 5A kind of token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
• 6Scottish [mass noun] A traditional sweet made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, resembling fudge but having a hard, grainy texture.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tablete, from a diminutive of Latin tabula (see table).