Unless your a chick with a purse or have a place to stash like a backpack or brief case phones with 5"+ screens are kind of joke. You can't pocket it, if you can squeeze it in you can't sit down without crushing it.
It's a diagonal measurement. The actual case size impact, while appearing dramatic in the OP image, is actually pretty minor- measured in cm. I know some people are tiny with tiny clothes and tiny pockets but the majority are probably not tiny and bigger phones along these lines will fit just fine. Bigger screen phones already exist. Go to a store that sells them and see if you can manage to fit one in your pocket. Unless you're one of these tiny people, it will fit just fine.
Hold one in your hand. If you can't see your hand underneath it, it is probably too big for you. However, unless you have very little hands, you'll probably realize that sight-unseen, "never really held one in my own hands" speculation is just that- speculation. I just hit a store yesterday that had 4.7", 5.5" and even one of those 6" screens. Yes, they were bigger than iPhone 5s… but not THAT much bigger. I found myself thinking how much better iOS use would be on them than a 4" screen (for my own purposes).
Sorry huge phone lovers. But seriously where is the line where a phone, a compact, transportable, personal device primarily designed to communicate with someone via voice becomes tablet with phone capability?
Is that (I bolded) the primary use of an iPhone? While my circle is not necessarily representative of all people, just about everywhere I go I notice iPhones being used down away from the ear- as portable computers- most of the time. Yes, people also make & take calls on them but it seems like most of the usage is texting, email, app use in my admittedly-limited, non-scientific observations. Then again, if you do some searches, you can find much more objective information showing that using "phones" for voice is declining year over year.
I can't help but get the impression they are more about "look at me" status than true functionaility.
Correct, but that's almost always the sentiment in the Apple crowd. Even a seemingly perfect design will get lots of posts begging for a new design. Why? A big chunk of people want to show they have the latest & greatest which is hard to do with only "inside the case" changes. A 4.7" and 5.5" iPhone will very obviously NOT be an iPhone 5s or 5. Apple will sell a lot of them to the "I have the latest & greatest. Look at me" crowd. And if they roll out a 4" version per rumored mockups, the iPhone 6 4" might look too similar to 3+ year old iPods to yield that same "look at me" punch.
