how would a larger phone be lower cost? Will it just be a bigger screen in a cheap body.....making us again choose between size and current standars/form factor (mini/ipad comparison)
It's a lot easier to make a large phone than it is a small phone assuming they have similar tech inside. The smaller the size, the harder it is to design and engineer a solution because all that tech has to be stuffed into very little space. Also since the battery has to be smaller, you have to have better software design so that battery life remains good.
Hence the reason very few high end phones are made in smaller sizes. It's extremely difficult to accomplish something like the iPhone. Most other manufacturers don't even try. Even Apple had to go slightly taller to cram the LTE radio in there. Still amazing they were able to make it even thinner and didn't have to make it wider and still have top of the line battery life.
They should be able to make a big phone no problem. It's cheaper and much easier to do.
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