I wasn't for it before, but I made a few mockups that swayed my position. I would love a blue one. But for those saying "NO", I imagine you'd still be able to get white and black, so what's the problem?
What about white? It's great
I wasn't for it before, but I made a few mockups that swayed my position. I would love a blue one. But for those saying "NO", I imagine you'd still be able to get white and black, so what's the problem?
The screen will be 4" for a LONG time to come. Possibly forever.
There doesn't seem to be much point putting out iPhones in multiple colors since so many people put cases on them.
I could actually see them offering 3.5" and 4" side by side... I know several people who got the 4S in the past few months just because they thought the 4" screen on the 5 sounded too big.
A lot of people (girls, anyways) just get the cases for the colors, from what I can tell.
multiple colors... ehhh, maybe...
Multiple screen sizes??? do these analysts even think before they post stuff? I can think of 3 reasons of the top of my head of why Apple would never do that.
Even assuming perfect compatibility an "iPhone nano" idea is idiodic. Nobody wants a smaller iPhone
"Sounded" too big? Did they actually hold one in their hands before deciding? I still have a 4S (I won't be eligible to upgrade until June) and have held friends iPhone 5's and the screen doesn't really seem that much bigger because the size only increased vertically, plus it is thinner and lighter.
I wouldn't mind if Apple offered something close to the 4.8” HD Super AMOLED™ display like on the Galaxy S3 has, but of course that would cause headaches for developers I am sure and cause more fragmentation.
Apple needs a 4.8" screen.
My 4" screen isnt cutting it, BUT I hate android.
If I could run the Apple OS on one of those beautiful Samsung phones, I wouldve left Apple already.
Make a 4.8" or 5.5" iPhone & a 4" model. Thats it.
No need for 3.5" anymore.
And I can think of 20m (the number of S3 sales in 3Q12) reason why Apple need need to seriously consider having a bigger phone. In a lot of countries, smartphone is used partially as a mobile video player. And 4 inches is perfect for using app on the run but not watching video on the run. There is really no benefit for Apple not to offer bigger screen. They need to figure out how to deal with Apps fragmentation problems but they have at least 20-30M unit type of sales opportunity that they give up by not tackling the problem.
I don't believe they have and I agree with you completely.
The best choice for Apple is going to be to nix the 3.5" screens as quickly as possible. As soon as they're all 4", developers won't need to worry at all about supporting multiple screen sizes.
I have developed for Android and iOS. Here's the issue with Android:
They have 6 separate resolutions. Google recommends that you support at least 3 (Medium, High, and Extra High are what they recommend. They also have Low, TV (meant to have a resolution comparable to a TV,) and Extra-Extra High.)
They have 4 "buckets" of screen sizes, which Google recommends you support all of. But really, the possibilities are limitless here.
This adds up to needing to make 12 - 24 separate layouts for Android.
On iOS, you need retina, with maybe some non-retina, and you need iPhone and iPad, with maybe separate files for 3.5" and 4".
That adds up to 2 - 5 (Retina iPhone, Retina 4", Retina iPad, old iPhone, old iPad/iPad mini.) separate layouts.
I don't worry too much about the different layouts though. The thing that really sucks on Android is the version distribution. Over 50% of Android users are still running Gingerbread, released in 2010. 20% of Android users are running, get this, not newer than Gingerbread, but older than Gingerbread versions of Android. So when developing for Android, you have two options:
- Develop for the cutting edge that 1/3rd of the users are actually on.
- Develop for everyone, and use the inferior APIs that are available for Gingerbread.
Meanwhile, on iOS just 2 weeks ago we had 72% of users running iOS 6. That was before Christmas. I'm sure when we get new numbers some time soon, they're going to be up past 80%.
The only change in iPhone screen resolution I can see happening is to match the iPad, and make the apps all universal across iOS.
I wasn't for it before, but I made a few mockups that swayed my position. I would love a blue one. But for those saying "NO", I imagine you'd still be able to get white and black, so what's the problem?
I wasn't for it before, but I made a few mockups that swayed my position. I would love a blue one. But for those saying "NO", I imagine you'd still be able to get white and black, so what's the problem?
I like the choice of additional colors. Thanks for the mock ups
However, there is no way I am upgrading again when the 5s comes out, I just got my 5 at launch. What is it worth to me to upgrade???
Better Display. I think the current screen is awesome....how much more you going to cram into a 4" display that I will be able to see at normal vision, but you will show me a 100X mag view of it and show me how what was once the best display (retina) is not better because it has twice the amount of pixels as before. Sorry to say, but 4" is still 4" no matter how many pixel you cram into it
Better Camera. Really, unless you give me Optical Zoom, 8MB is pretty damn good for a Phone camera. The phone already does 1080p HD record at 30FPS w/ audio.
NFC Support, if it does come, don't use it now and really doesn't affect my life without it.
128GB <- Now, if I could this for the amount i paid for my 64GB iPhone 5, this might be worth it
I wasn't for it before, but I made a few mockups that swayed my position. I would love a blue one. But for those saying "NO", I imagine you'd still be able to get white and black, so what's the problem?
omg i want the red one NOW