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Next iPhone Coming Fall 2012 with LTE, 3.5-Inch Screen
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How can a 3.5" screen possibly be considered outdated? Changing it from its ideal size would be a big mistake. Change for the sake of change would be stupid.
Just now?
I've been getting sick of it since the iPod. I had a 2nd gen. iPod, my first and last. After less than a years worth of use the battery lasted me only 30 minutes a charge, and Apple made an awesome decision to make it almost impossible to swap the battery on my own. Eventually the hard drive failed as well. I had 15gb of music on it, all of which I couldn't retrieve... my own music, was stuck on the iPod (though 3rd party apps did become available eventually). Then there was the forced use of iTunes. Back then, iTunes wasnt the bloated mess that it is today, but its ridiculous how there are *so many* restrictions on Apple's products.
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agreed, some of the android phones have some really nice size screen. I just hope its a completely new design.
Too small of a change to sell. Needs a tempting selling feature or two. If the article above is correct, all you would gain is LTE vs 3g, and as a result lose the ability to use your regular dock connector based peripherals. At the very least, the next iPhone will have an improved camera, perhaps an HD face-time camera, finalized version of Siri. Without those, it will be a tough sell.
Gee, and my 2012 Toyota Camery is only 5 months old and they're already planning for the 2013 model. Darn!
Not really. The 4S sold like crazy because of new buyers, largely switchers from either BB or new to smartphones. For those people, everything about the 4S was very very nice. But for people who have had iPhones or touch based smartphones? Not so much.
Essentially, Apple created an incremental upgrade and relied on momentum for sales. At some point, they are going to have to actually move the bar again. A 4" screen would do this. NFC (with an infrastructure to support it) would do this. LTE? Not really, that is only catching up.
And as a geek, I can quite easily tell you what the differences are between HSPA, HSPA+, and LTE. And how NONE of them are true 4g. And how that fact is utterly meaningless in real life.
And finally, as someone who has had an iPhone since day one, I want a larger screen. 3.5 is merely adequate. Sorry. You can say all you want about 3.5 being fine. To me, it is the same as someone spouting why anyone would want or need anything bigger than the 1" screen on a Nokia candybar phone. They could make the same argument that the increase in phone size would make it unpocketable.
FYI, the height and width of the phone are of little importance to the front pocket of an average male's pants. Its the thickness of the phone. Half the time, my current 4s ends up sideways in my jeans pocket, which is actually annoying. And even though there is plenty of space in my pocket, I can't actually put much else in there with the phone because of its thickness. So a 4" screen would essentially do nothing to transportability, assuming thickness remained the same.
Yep - no more compatibility with the chargers for my other i-devices? That alone might make it tempting to keep the old 3GS.
3.5 inches is hardly the limit of what even small hands people can handle. Why don't you trade phones with someone with a larger phone for a day and see for yourself. I have a galaxy nexus, my previous phone was a droid incredible which is similar in size the iphone although slightly taller and less wide. The nexus looked huge when I first saw it but it really works in the hand greatly. The suttle curvature of the screen makes it a pleasure to use as well. I can reach the whole screen with ease one handed.
Oh yes hell yes 
colour me happy, I am now praying for the same 3.5" retina screen as my iPhone 4 has
Still, you could actually say what they have predicted anyone could have guessed at, apart from the dock connector? It's a shame they haven't announced anything about the hardware or camera?
colour me happy, I am now praying for the same 3.5" retina screen as my iPhone 4 has Still, you could actually say what they have predicted anyone could have guessed at, apart from the dock connector? It's a shame they haven't announced anything about the hardware or camera?
The iPhones sales figures would disagree with your assessment
Are you sure that iPhone sells well because of the size? How about the fact that Android phones started later but now outsell iPhone by a big margin?
So your dock connector was broken as well? Battery life has nothing to do with transferring music, well not back then.
You can be sure that Apple spent a lot of time and effort evaluating the ideal size for the iPhone. What they need to look at is making a new phone the size of the iPod Nano so I could just attach it to my wrist and not have to worry about it fitting into my shirt pocket. Siri's evolution might eventually enable this to happen. Fat fingers be damned, just talk your way.
I'm not saying it sells well because of size. I'm saying size doesn't matter and is not a determining factor when people go to purchase their phones and that's why it sells. Yes, the android phones "outsell iPhone by a big margin"...android phoneS. When you lump all three hundred together hehe
Show me one individual android phone that comes even remotely close and then we can talk about whether people really care about screen size hehe
I'm holding out hope the new iPhone looks exactly like the Macrumors Mock design from last summer.
No, its because the battery was CRAP and Apple's specs at the time were more vague than Richard Simmons sexuality. The iPod's battery was rated as 'last 8 or more hours'
What the hell is 8 or more? 12 hours? 100 hours? In regards to iPods, Apple's been absolutely terrible with battery life. Cowon aka iAudio mp3 players are known to last as long as 60+ hours on a single charge. Apple never made it past the 40 hour mark, and even then it was never as long as they claimed.
I'm sure there will be a little adapter available. I think the dock connector could be replaced with something much smaller, and hopefully not symmetrical so that you know which way to put it in just by feel, unless it could be used either way. Magsafe would be fantastic.
I love that people are already mad at Apple on a "rumor"
I heard Apple might make the next iPhone only for people whose name starts with S
Damn You Apple!
Why can't we wait until it is confirmed before we start griping.