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Anyone else not care about a thinner phone?
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There is value in thinness if you can do it without sacrificing functionality. I mean, imagine a phone that's as thin as your credit card but that still gets the same or better battery life than your phone today. So long as it doesn't snap like a twig too easily, who wouldn't prefer a phone like that?
But just given the tech we have today, I would rather have a slightly thicker phone that has better battery life. I love my iPhone and everything, but the battery life is just atrocious. I realize it's because I'm using it to its max, but I also realize that the phone could be even a millimeter thicker and provide slightly better battery life.
But just given the tech we have today, I would rather have a slightly thicker phone that has better battery life. I love my iPhone and everything, but the battery life is just atrocious. I realize it's because I'm using it to its max, but I also realize that the phone could be even a millimeter thicker and provide slightly better battery life.
Strongly disagree. A thinner phone means that people who want longer battery life can choose to use a battery case without making the overall package too thick.
While what you say is true you'd have to agree thinness with current battery technologies is a move of form over function would you?
As someone that has a mophie, I absolutely hate when it's on my iphone. I agree thinness is a selling point, and it has a certain wow factor for the morons on cnn, but I hope they don't provide a significantly thinner phone while providing the same "great 10 hrs" of talk time.
Yup. I would never, ever buy a Mophie. Never, ever ever. It completely ruins the feel of the phone.
I believe that Apple has reached the thinness threshold with the iPhone (and many of their products) but I think that when they reduce the thickness of a device so much that the camera lens has to stick out, or the headphone jack needs to be removedthey've crossed that threshold. I am happy with the thinness of the iPhone as it is, it's just about perfect.
I want it thinner. And with all the rumors of the next iPhone being bigger that means I want it even thinner then before.
Until iPhone, 2.5mm jack was standard on phones since the 90s, both cordless standard wall phones, as well as cell phones. I can't fathom why Apple put the 3.5mm jack in the iPhone, they were the only ones and it was a throwback standard, but it caused all the other phone manufactures to go back to 3.5mm.
Weird.
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I love thin too! My love of thin started especially with the RAZR flip phone. I was hoping for an even thinner RAZR at the time but it never happened.
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I miss the days when you could just stick a bigger battery on the back and it came with a bigger cover to cover the bigger battery. There was even one for the RAZR flip phone. That way when I needed lots of battery life I just snapped on the big battery and when I needed thin, I just snapped in the thin battery. I suppose battery case is the same concept but it seems bulkier and more complicated.
Weird.
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I love thin too! My love of thin started especially with the RAZR flip phone. I was hoping for an even thinner RAZR at the time but it never happened.
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I miss the days when you could just stick a bigger battery on the back and it came with a bigger cover to cover the bigger battery. There was even one for the RAZR flip phone. That way when I needed lots of battery life I just snapped on the big battery and when I needed thin, I just snapped in the thin battery. I suppose battery case is the same concept but it seems bulkier and more complicated.
Thats exactly what I use it for, calls and texts. Otherwise Im interacting with actual people and not just playing games on it like a toy :|
Same here, but I finally realized we are in the minority. They actual phone part is like an afterthought add on, hence the horrible voice quality of very expensive phones lately, especially the mic.
My 5S is already too thin and uncomfortable to hold without a case. Its time Apple used any extra space gained by increasing the size of the battery instead. Whenever people ask to see my 5S they never comment on how thin it is or any of that stuff, the most common questions are about TouchID and battery life. The average person isn't impressed by how thin the phones are getting.