They're oversized, bulky and discriminate against those with smaller hands or tighter jeans.
But according to the latest figures, as well as being big physically, they're also big in terms of popularity in the Asia-Pacific region — where Chinese, Korean and Indian consumers can't get enough of the devices that are too large to be dubbed smartphones yet too small to be classed as tablets.
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