the world's first best-selling 4" smartphone.
because you KNOW they will say it
Well they can say that no matter the size they release it at, iPhone is the best selling smartphone on the market by a huge huge margin.
WSJ: Apple to increase iPhone screen size to 'at least' 4-inches
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Well they can say that no matter the size they release it at, iPhone is the best selling smartphone on the market by a huge huge margin.
The Galaxy Note is awesome, its size was only a problem when you tried to type,but Samsung solved it with an update to add a "One Hand Operation mode", still I can see that that size is not for everyone at all. In the iPhone case, I don't really see Apple going for more than 4", not even 4.3", but at 4" I'm pretty confident that iOS will still be a joy to use
mescalineeyes
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Yes, but so "the market has spoken" is bullshit, yes?
Rocket Scientist
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3,5'' is too small, good for them that they're moving on from it. Will be interesting to see how the size affects the design/look though.
I believe when they are saying that they mean the size of the phone, you could easily increase the screensize without making the phone bigger which would be perfect.
Boogalogist
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Been there....done that...Yawnn...a bit behind the times, aren't we?
Well IF Apple increases the size of the screen it surely will be because "the market has spoken"
Not necessarily. Because of Apple's brand equity factor, I consider the Android market to be a more reliable proving grounds for new smartphone features.
No one will soon be as successful as Apple, but you can successfully compare everyone fighting for 2nd and 3rd against one another, and they experiment more with the variables.
mugurumakensei
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The phone would have to have a really bulky frame at 4.3 inches to be unreachable to the common thumb.
Good Job Bob
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You have to consider that if Apple kept the iPhone screen ratio at 3:2 than it'd be considerably wider at 4.3" than your standard 16:9 4.3" Android phone.
The market can't have spoken when the top selling smartphones are dominated by 3.5 inch screen phones. That doesn't make any sense.
Same here.
My GF has an S2 and I love the size of that screen.
My 4S looks puny in comparison.
I don't think they'll ever move on from it entirely.
Its the trend, the iPhone still is and will be in the near future the top selling phone, but the demand for big screen phones is increasing at a fast rate (even the Galaxy Note sold more than 5 millions units).
By current standards, the S2's screen is actually pretty small... XD
Treefingers
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Chinner made this thread worth reading
iLounge reported on a 4-inch iPhone 5 last week and said it would be 10mm taller, 2mm thinner, and retain the same width.
robertsan21
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Oh how I hope the new iPhone is thinner than the iPhone4 is.
Do it like an iPod and I will buy it Apple, Oh I will buy it!
Do it like an iPod and I will buy it Apple, Oh I will buy it!
KO Traveling Hobo
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I'm reading this thread as a penis size discussion. It is much more entertaining.
So the 4"+ is actually a variant? They should call it "iPhone MEGA"
it's a play on "nano"
That one dude's girlfriend has a bigger dick than him. Haha, that's silly!
Good Job Bob
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Freud would definitely be interested in all these people bragging over the screen size of their phones.
AdventureRacing
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I find 3.5 is a little bit too small. It almost turned me off my iphone purchase. I'm happy with this.
VariantX04
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Pretty sure the Apple products we'll be seeing for the next couple of years were OKed by Jobs before he passed away.
Betta Lines
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So guess it will remain the same res (being a bigger screen, you'll hold it slighly further away, thus maintaining 'retina' spec)... right? Otherwise it's yet another res for apps to scale to...
I think the iPhone 4/S will go the route of the iPad 2 as a cheaper option, on the side. Assuming they're really going with 4-4.3".. A lot of people love their 3.5", I can't see them killing that off entirely.
That is bogus. No way they change the aspect ratio as drastic as that iLounge rumor is saying.. I think they have many options in front of them and certain models/prototype ideas are getting leaked.
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Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Weeks iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesdays Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes Ondcurtis said:I've been wondering why Apple chose to make the iPhone 4's screen 3.5-inches when other comparable phones with Android and Windows Phone 7 have larger, more inviting screens. When you first see a phone with a 4-inch or larger screen, it seems like a much better experience. I thought it was a technical decision, and it could be, but since switching to an Android phone a Samsung Galaxy S II, the best Android phone you can buy, anywhere 15 days ago, I have realized another huge downside of larger screens: when holding the phone with one hand, I can't reach the other side of the screen with my thumb.
Touching the upper right corner of the screen on the Galaxy S II using one hand, with its 4.27-inch screen, while you're walking down the street looking at Google Maps, is extremely difficult and frustrating. I pulled out my iPhone 4 to do a quick test, and it turns out that when you hold the iPhone in your left hand and articulate your thumb, you can reach almost exactly to the other side of the screen. This means it's easy to touch any area of the screen while holding the phone in one hand, with your thumb. It is almost impossible to do this on the Galaxy S II.
This is an example of one of those design decisions that you don't usually notice until you see someone doing it wrong. It's one of the things that makes Apple products Apple products.
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perhaps there is enough bitching between Apple haters who say they want 5" screens 'because android has them', and Apple fauners who spew 'can't be more than 3.5", our ickle fingers won't reach', that apple will make two phones with different sized screens to appeal to two different markets.
It is possible/likely that as market share grows they won't be able to sustain a 'one size fits all' single product.
Personally, I sometimes find 3.5" a bit small on my smartphone (not iphone) and ipod touch. But I wouldn't want to go much beyond 4". Galaxy note and the android screen size warz is getting a bit silly now.
so don't put important buttons in those areas? for google maps you can scroll easily around without reaching all the way across the screen. For heavy interaction you'd probably use your other hand anyway. Don't see it being an issue really. Quoting things like Apple user guidelines for developers, suggesting its locked in stone is a bit simplistic too - Apple change stuff all the time.
If they do bump the screen, I hope they don't change the resolution again, unless they somehow align with the ipad (but then the aspect ratio is messed up)
It is possible/likely that as market share grows they won't be able to sustain a 'one size fits all' single product.
Personally, I sometimes find 3.5" a bit small on my smartphone (not iphone) and ipod touch. But I wouldn't want to go much beyond 4". Galaxy note and the android screen size warz is getting a bit silly now.
so don't put important buttons in those areas? for google maps you can scroll easily around without reaching all the way across the screen. For heavy interaction you'd probably use your other hand anyway. Don't see it being an issue really. Quoting things like Apple user guidelines for developers, suggesting its locked in stone is a bit simplistic too - Apple change stuff all the time.
If they do bump the screen, I hope they don't change the resolution again, unless they somehow align with the ipad (but then the aspect ratio is messed up)
That's what it is huh? Personally, I still feel that 4" is too big. If the iPhone 5 has a 4" screen, it's less desirable to me. It's not thumb-related I should say. It's simply the fact that I don't want to carry around a large phone.
That article is total shit. I have TINY girl fingers (male btw...) and I can get my thumb on one hand to go to all four corners of my 4.65" phone screen without any problems at all. You must have seriously tiny hands.
Bomber Bob
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I won't. It's just I don't like the huge phone trend
Exactly. I don't see why this so hard to grasp. Screen size directly impacts the overall size of the phone. I'm worried about the latter.
Synth_floyd
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4 inches please!! 3.5 is too small. It's the main reason I don't have an iphone.
Indeed, we all know Jobs's vision was the main driving force there.
With strong rumours of a 7"ipad as well it does seem like they might be trying to cover all bases, 4-7" isn't that big a leap (penis gaglol) and people might not want a smaller iPad if they have a bigger phone.
They seem to be wanting to take on the Kindle Fire, Nook and coming Google tablet with the 7" form factor but many people would look at their 4" phone and think "it's good enough".
Hmmmmm, wanting a portable device to have a small form-factor sounds like fanboy talk to me. If you love Apple so much, why don't you just marry them?!
Don't forget it has to be 1280 * 1920. There are a million posts on this forum saying there's no way there'll be a size increase without a res increase and a million others saying that the only way that'll happen is if the res doubles, because tripling the original iPhone res is very anti-apple.
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Is 1280x1920 on a 4" screen even possible now?
What? Who said that? I think I'm one of the few saying there should be a res increase with a size increase (my argument is that its wasting useful space and making the icons into larger granny icons, but I think the latter argument is probably overblown since the iPad has tolerably large icons). Most seem to say that preserving the current res would still make it be between iPhone 4/4S and new iPad level of PPI.
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