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What the 5-Inch iPhone Could Look Like
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come on, alot of ppl would love to grow taller but not phones, we need our iphone to get fat alil bit too 
Here's the deal
1) I know nothing
2) If I wanted to speculate on rumors, i'd try to make them sound more plausible, not less
3) More plausible is never repeating "math" again and begin referring to it as iPhone+. I'm sure there's some symbol based language where the + actually translates to "math". I'm probably wrong.
4) When Apple was running the advertisement about how the thumb of 1 hand holding the iPhone 5 stretched from one corner to the next without having to over extend, I thought, well, that's cool. But what if you're holding it sideways? Then there's a lot of extra room that's wasted and you can't stretch all the way across. So, I would bank on it getting wider (and maybe taller) but I would wager that they do something like "adjustable icons". Could be a handicap setting like "use larger icons" and it's 4x5. Or use smaller icons and it's 5x6. Eventually, I'd think they'd allow you to set a different icon size for each app individually based on your preferences and the importance of the app.
1) I know nothing
2) If I wanted to speculate on rumors, i'd try to make them sound more plausible, not less
3) More plausible is never repeating "math" again and begin referring to it as iPhone+. I'm sure there's some symbol based language where the + actually translates to "math". I'm probably wrong.
4) When Apple was running the advertisement about how the thumb of 1 hand holding the iPhone 5 stretched from one corner to the next without having to over extend, I thought, well, that's cool. But what if you're holding it sideways? Then there's a lot of extra room that's wasted and you can't stretch all the way across. So, I would bank on it getting wider (and maybe taller) but I would wager that they do something like "adjustable icons". Could be a handicap setting like "use larger icons" and it's 4x5. Or use smaller icons and it's 5x6. Eventually, I'd think they'd allow you to set a different icon size for each app individually based on your preferences and the importance of the app.
Exactly, I don't see any added value for a phone device - if they want more space for some apps, go get an iPad Mini.
correct me if im wrong but what if they used the ipad non retina's pixel size. I know its a different aspect ration, but isnt that what everybody's wanting?
I remember people saying that about the iPhone 5
Yes - but that was to accommodate a 16:9 (or near enough) aspect ratio, and the first screen size change ever for the iPhone line.
It would be ridiculous to change it again so soon after, and make the aspect ratio which is nothing near any kind of standard.
iOS is fine, the Android community would b*tch about it regardless. iOS isn't the problem. These are the problems:
1. It's very hard to distinguish between models yet owners are expected to upgrade regularly. If you want people to upgrade you had better give them something that's easily recognizable as new.
2. Marketing/Ads and sh#t. They need to go back to selling the brand and be exciting, rebellious, and cool. Instead, they show features, they have old people and kids in them. Seriously folks, they have an ad about a second microphone...a second microphone.
3. Return to a regular update cycle and don't do stuff like the iPad 3 which was only out a few months.
4. Wow people. Apple used to know how to blow people away with artistic design. I like my iPhone 5, it's the best iPhone I've owned, but it looks weird. The iPhone and iPhone 4 were obviously Apple and obviously cool/different. The iPhone 5 is half-as#ed.
There are too many iPhone users out there right now for Apple to stop selling it's brand as new and exciting. Old people and kids do own a ton of Apple products, but that doesn't mean you should change the brand image from young, hip, and outsider.
Here's hoping someone from Apple pulls a coup and gets Tim Cook fired...he clearly doesn't get it.
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Get used to it, the next iPhone design (hopefully this year, but likely not) will be 4.5-5.0".
So many people in these forums don't understand that for the great majority of people, their phone is their primary gateway to the Internet. Their primary form of communication is texting, email, facebook updates, and twitter. FAR down the list are phone calls and email.
There are plenty of small phones that already exist...go use one, they were invented in 1998. Today's smartphones are not phones in the traditional sense at all.
If you're simply looking at the homescreen all day... you're doing it wrong.
Open an app once in a while.
A bigger screen will show a bigger image. The keyboard will be a little larger. Movies will be larger. Games will be larger.
Or they just got it right the first time. The Mac Desktop looks largely the same since System 7 or so.
Isn't it rather pointless to show the size of something online without a known object (dvd case, iphone 4 or 5, etc) object next to it for comparison?
The trend towards smaller was a good thing, back when all you expected to do with your phone was make calls and maybe text someone.
These days, calling and texting are practically secondary features on a smartphone. Now, they're expected to be web browsers, movie players, document and ebook readers, game consoles...
...things that are (arguably) better done on larger screens.
But the internet gets bigger every year, and phones just have to get bigger, to fit it all in.
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Or at least an iPhone 5 beside it, instead of morphing into it at the beginning.
Just for fun, add a 4 beside the 5 and the Math - would show how far we've come.