Even worse than lack of 3G, the phone is too large...

[omegaphil6]

This is a fact. Four years ago, the most advanced smartphone ever, Sony-Ericsson P800, failed to be a mass product because it was too large. Same thing will happen to Apple iPhone


Here in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, ...) people hate large phones. What about in the USA?

Its shame, I really liked the iPhone, too bad it never caught on!

 

[eaglesteve]

When iPhone was first designed, there was no plan to run third party applications. I wonder if the intention was to anticipate all kinds of applications to run on it right from the beginning, I wonder if Apple could have made a different decision regarding screen size.

 

[Sedrick]

This is a fact. Four years ago, the most advanced smartphone ever, Sony-Ericsson P800, failed to be a mass product because it was too large. Same thing will happen to Apple iPhone


Here in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, ...) people hate large phones. What about in the USA?

You're joking, right? The iPhone is the smallest smartphone on the market. I think you want the 'Droid forums. And in case you haven't noticed, smartphones (3.5" and up) are already massively popular and widespread. If you want to browse the web or anything else on a 'phone', you'll need at least a 3.5" phone. Otherwise, you don't need a smartphone.

 

[peterjcat]

The little box at the top of the post tells you when it was written.

 

[decafjava]

You're joking, right? The iPhone is the smallest smartphone on the market. I think you want the 'Droid forums. And in case you haven't noticed, smartphones (3.5" and up) are already massively popular and widespread. If you want to browse the web or anything else on a 'phone', you'll need at least a 3.5" phone. Otherwise, you don't need a smartphone.

2007 thread.

MultiMediaWill needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.

 

[Night Spring]

2007 thread.

MultiMediaWill needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.

He has annoyed me before, but not this time -- seeing that OP from back in 2007 is hugely entertaining! How quickly we've gone from "too big" to "too small." LOL!

 

[jcorbin]

Oh, you mean we're not in January 2007?

woops, just saw the thread at the top of the forums. meaning it was still active because people were updating it today.

honestly if a thread is no longer relevant (i.e almost 5 years old) it should be closed. but w/e its still entertaining

 

[bbplayer5]

Its a real shame it never caught on, I agree... This blackberry sucks.

 

[Interstella5555]

Yes, most people do, more than twice as much people who don't want a larger screen do want a larger screen. I've posted a poll and that proves what I said that most people do want a bigger screen.

Here's my thread that proves it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1258541/

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

 

[Obscurelight]

If the Op thought iPhone was big, then the op might've fainted when he saw an android phone

 

[spades1412]

OP nailed it in 2007. The iPhone has turned out to be a huge failure.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

OP nailed it in 2007. The iPhone has turned out to be a huge failure.

The sarcasm...

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

We drive SUV's, you drive matchboxes. Iphone is small by US standards.

 

[Namji]

This thread is proof to show how many people actually pay attention...

Too many fails.. lol

 

[lilo777]

This is a fact. Four years ago, the most advanced smartphone ever, Sony-Ericsson P800, failed to be a mass product because it was too large. Same thing will happen to Apple iPhone


Here in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, ...) people hate large phones. What about in the USA?

Here in US, where the prevailing method of transportation is a car, larger phones work very well. In my own experience, there is a huge difference between city living (Europe) and small town/suburb living. When in cities, people tend to talk on the phones a lot. For us here, the media/computer part of the phone is much more important. Phones are used more for video, gaming, web browsing than for voice calling (obviously this varied from person to person but compared to Europe in general this is the case). For this type of usage larger screen becomes a must. And if out pockets need to grow to accommodate this life style - they will.

 

[HeatherA]

The original post in this ancient thread just made my day. Love how the OP was so dead on in his prediction!

 

[Givmeabrek]

Ha, ha, made my day too. Really funny. Can't fit it in my pocket because it's too big!! LOL

 

[MultiFinder17]

Oh goodness, I love it when one of these necrothreads rises from the before times, the long long ago and haunts our present.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

I wonder if the OP has a change of opinion now.

 

[andyprit]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

I (honestly) belive my iPhone is the perfect size. If a bigge one came out, I wouldn't buy it.

 

[Cuneyd]

Here in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, ...) people hate large phones. What about in the USA?

Thanks for telling us which countries are in Europe.

 

[xraydoc]

Man, I really wish that the iPhone caught on. I've had like 5 of them now and I can't make anyone else get one...!!


/ah, July 2007... those were good times.

 

[szolr]

This is a fact. Four years ago, the most advanced smartphone ever, Sony-Ericsson P800, failed to be a mass product because it was too large. Same thing will happen to Apple iPhone


Here in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, ...) people hate large phones. What about in the USA?

This is brilliant! I remember when people used to say this sort of thing. And now people are complaining 3.5 inches is too small to be competitive. What a joke... I still think, like I did in 2007, that 3.5 inches is a very nice size for a phone-it fits in my pocket; sorted.

 

[Mr.C]

I wonder if the OP has a change of opinion now.

I wonder when people will stop resurrecting old threads that don't need to be because they are ridiculous and pointless.

 

[ericrwalker]

I think a 3 inch phone would be awesome.