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The rumors are wrong...THIS is how the new 4 Inch iPhone will look

nickpro said:
Did a quick search and didn't find anything
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Yep, you're the first to start a thread about the new iphone and its screen. Congrats.

Anyway, that piece is nonsense. Why go to the trouble of redesigning the phone without increasing the pixel count. There's no benefit whatsoever.

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I think I'll just buy a factory unlocked 4S and be done with it
 
chambone said:
Yep, you're the first to start a thread about the new iphone and its screen. Congrats.

Anyway, that piece is nonsense. Why go to the trouble of redesigning the phone without increasing the pixel count. There's no benefit whatsoever.

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I think I'll just buy a factory unlocked 4S and be done with it
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i think everyone is underestimating Apple's focus on one-handed navigation and comfortableness when holding the iPhone. the "stretched-out" 4 inch screen that is on this site and others will hinder that considerably IMO.
 
I would actually prefer some semblance of a bezel, no matter how thin. I think edge-to-edge displays (especially on a white phone) look horrible.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I very well could be, but the iPad does not have the same aspect ratio as the iPhone as the article implies. And secondly, I don't mind Apple increasing the screen size in whatever way, but they need to up the resolution as well. I like my Retina, gentlemen. Something has got to give. Either we're losing some of the PPI, developers have to adapt to a new screen ratio, developers have to adapt to a new resolution, developers have to adapt to both a new resolution and a new aspect ratio, or we get the same screen size.
 
nickpro said:
i think everyone is underestimating Apple's focus on one-handed navigation and comfortableness when holding the iPhone. the "stretched-out" 4 inch screen that is on this site and others will hinder that considerably IMO.
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I don't know. I find one handed comfort quite important, but I don't think the concept on the page you linked to makes much of a difference. I just don't think it's worthwhile to spend r&d money on a screen that has the same resolution, but is just a little bigger. As long as they keep the phone's dimensions the same, I don't care what they do with the screen.

If Apple thinks one handed use is important, so much the better.
 
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I doubt it will have a bigger screen. Were on the 3rd version of the ipad and still on the same size screen, imo i dont want a iphone with a bigger screen, i think its fine just the way it is, i find it useless to carry a phone with a screen bigger than 3.5.
 
rgctx said:
I doubt it will have a bigger screen. Were on the 3rd version of the ipad and still on the same size screen, imo i dont want a iphone with a bigger screen, i think its fine just the way it is, i find it useless to carry a phone with a screen bigger than 3.5.
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Thank you. Have you tried to walk around with a bigger phone in your pocket? Makes it look like you have a bonner all day lol.
 
If that is the plan, and they did have the technology to make the bezel that small, I hope they make the top and bottom bezel smaller too. That mock up looks good, but the design is horrid..
 
Cripes, that old design? First off, there are components and frame under the screen panel, it can not go side to side. Besides, it looks like ass.

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cmChimera said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I very well could be, but the iPad does not have the same aspect ratio as the iPhone as the article implies.
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I don't see anywhere that it says the iPhone and iPad have the same aspect ratio.

Hell, they had their chance to do that with the iPad (a much better video consumption device), but decided the squarer 4:3 aspect ratio made more sense overall.
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I find it much more likely that Apple will just keep the phone the same width (as claimed in all the rumors), get rid of the dead space on both sides of the screen, and keep the aspect ratio 3:2.
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In any case, i do agree, something is going to have to change on the developers side. Even if they did just a taller screen every app would either have to have a default "blank" area which the developers could then go back and fix, or every app would have to get redesigned before it went on the new phone.

In all honesty i haven't seen anyone mention this point. If they do make a change to the phone, they will have to make a change to iOS, meaning developers would most likely want to know about it when iOS 6 is announced/betas start rolling out. Perhaps we could see an announcement at WWDC of both the new iOS and iPhone.

But hey that's just a personal "hope"/"theory" lol
 
You have to be able to hold the phone. It's a touchscreen, when your fingers wrap just a bit around the edge, you would touch the screen. There must be a small side bezel.
 
JAT said:
You have to be able to hold the phone. It's a touchscreen, when your fingers wrap just a bit around the edge, you would touch the screen. There must be a small side bezel.
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Completely agree. That small bezel edge in portrait mode is actually very important. Much like one-handed operations, it's a fact that we take for granted because we can just do it.
 
Be some interesting designed cases with THAT little bezel. And my gripe with one handed use is that back/cancel button it always at the far upper left.

If apple was so interested in one hand use everything would be toward the bottom. Any increase in height will make it near impossible for me to use one handed. I need to adjust my hand as it is now. The screen could be 5" as long as everything you need to touch is at the bottom the majority of the time.
 
JAT said:
You have to be able to hold the phone. It's a touchscreen, when your fingers wrap just a bit around the edge, you would touch the screen. There must be a small side bezel.
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True, although with the emphasis on small. The bezel could probably be a quarter the thickness it is now and still be OK.
 
JAT said:
You have to be able to hold the phone. It's a touchscreen, when your fingers wrap just a bit around the edge, you would touch the screen. There must be a small side bezel.
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I can see the internet complaints now, and Apple will fix it by giving a free bumper case.
 
-aggie- said:
If you don't mind; copy the text of the article, because my work thinks the site is bad for some reason, sp I can't open it.
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I got it for ya Ag... ;)

Article said:
After yet another round of iPhone 4" screen rumors that I simply refuse to believe, I've decided to throw my thoughts into the wild-ass speculation machine. I am not going to predict whether or not the new iPhone will be taller than the old one, that could be the case, but it's not really relevant to my argument. The claim I take issue with is the idea that the new iPhone screen will have a new aspect ratio.

The reason I don't buy the "It'll just be taller" argument is because it wouldn't really help with the biggest problem people face using tiny screens—making small text easier to read. Text in a website, PDF, or any other document that has content at a set width will appear no larger on a +height screen than on the current one. Kind-of defeats the purpose of giving people a larger screen. Not only that, but photos (4:3) would not display as well on a +height screen either. They would need to be letterboxed, or cropped even further. Pretty much the only thing that would benefit from a +height screen would be widescreen video in landscape mode. I can't believe Apple would be stupid enough to go that route. Hell, they had their chance to do that with the iPad (a much better video consumption device), but decided the squarer 4:3 aspect ratio made more sense overall.

I find it much more likely that Apple will just keep the phone the same width (as claimed in all the rumors), get rid of the dead space on both sides of the screen, and keep the aspect ratio 3:2. A 4" 3:2 screen would roughly measure 2.22" wide by 3.33" tall. (The current iPhone screen is 1.94" wide by 2.91" tall.) According to Apple's tech specs the iPhone 4S is 2.31" wide. This means they could keep the iPhone the exact same width as the iPhone 4S if they figured out a way to run the screen extremely close to the edge. I've illustrated this below…



The resulting screen would be approximately 0.4" taller than the one on the 4S (+1 for the rumor), and the phone would be the same width it is now (another +1 for the rumor). Not to mention it would make developers extremely happy by not requiring them to support a new screen resolution. Why would Apple unnecessarily complicate things? Makes no sense to me…
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