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Apple Reportedly Developing iPhones with Large Curved Screens for 2014, Enhanced Touch Sensors for Later Models
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That's more a tablet than phone, right now the iPhone has a great screen size for a phone, if you need bigger get a tablet.
That said I can't wait to see what Apple ends up doing with the next iPhone, and not believing most of the rumors until it's made official by Apple in about 11 months.
That said I can't wait to see what Apple ends up doing with the next iPhone, and not believing most of the rumors until it's made official by Apple in about 11 months.
Choices = good.
Some prefer small screens, some prefer larger. I reckon the 5" screen on the Samsung S4 is a great size. Normal use is no issue with one hand, i can unlock it, phone , check messages, check email, check websites etc, not many worries there. The iphone screen just feels a wee bit tiny these days.
Anyways, i want more access, which is my main concern when it comes to the ipad and exactly why i went over to an android tablet. With the amount of travel i do, i'd love to get the battery benefit that comes with the ipad, but i'd be missing out on the more user friendly way of transferring videos. I don't want to go via itunes when i want to transfer movies. I want to be able to plug it in via usb and just drag files over to the folders that i want to use.
Issue2: storage space, way to expensive when you can't add extra storage space using micro sd cards.
Some prefer small screens, some prefer larger. I reckon the 5" screen on the Samsung S4 is a great size. Normal use is no issue with one hand, i can unlock it, phone , check messages, check email, check websites etc, not many worries there. The iphone screen just feels a wee bit tiny these days.
Anyways, i want more access, which is my main concern when it comes to the ipad and exactly why i went over to an android tablet. With the amount of travel i do, i'd love to get the battery benefit that comes with the ipad, but i'd be missing out on the more user friendly way of transferring videos. I don't want to go via itunes when i want to transfer movies. I want to be able to plug it in via usb and just drag files over to the folders that i want to use.
Issue2: storage space, way to expensive when you can't add extra storage space using micro sd cards.
Most of the time when I'm not using the keyboard (for which I use two thumbs). It just seems natural to me to use one hand and I prefer it, even when both hands are free. As I said above though, 4" is worse than 3.5" for one-hand use and if Apple are set on not returning to 3.5" (as they seem to be) I'd rather they went for something significantly bigger - 5" would be good I think - much larger and we might be getting toward the limits of acceptable pocketability.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Apple cannot and must not change the size of the iPhone screen.
The iPhone screen size is PERFECT and is dictated by God. Can't ever change it.
Smaller screen = better.
If people want bigger screen because of eye sight problems, they should wear glasses.
All phones should be able to be operated by ONLY ONE HAND.
We must not have any bigger screen phones that require TWO HANDS.
Anyone who asks for a bigger screen iPhone is a traitor.
This analysis does not make any sense at all. These guys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with this crap. Talk about adding 2+2 and making 5. 
This analysis does not make any sense at all. These guys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with this crap. Talk about adding 2+2 and making 5.
And yet it generated over 400 posts on MR. Of course the majority of which aren't questioning the accuracy of the story but arguing over screen size.
Must be a lot of iPhone 5 people out there that are traitors then, that went from the iPhone 4 screen size
If Apple release a 4.7 inch iPhone, Tim Cook and his band of merry men will all declare the new phone "Magical", and everyone will want it.
Carrying a bag, holding to a hand rail, unlocking a door, opening a door, closing a door..
Are you really asking that question?
The solution:
Why not ending this... strange problem by giving phone ability to the iPad Mini? This device would be big enough for working as a personality-crutch on every schoolyard. The virtual keyboard would be usable with sausage-like fingers. And the device would even fill the grateful pocket of oversized trousers
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"Choices are good".
Okay with me. I WANT THE 3.5 SIZE.
Why not ending this... strange problem by giving phone ability to the iPad Mini? This device would be big enough for working as a personality-crutch on every schoolyard. The virtual keyboard would be usable with sausage-like fingers. And the device would even fill the grateful pocket of oversized trousers
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"Choices are good".
Okay with me. I WANT THE 3.5 SIZE.
I understand that there are times when you may be required to use your phone one-handed. For me, those times are few and far between. I have watched people use a S3 or S4 one-handed without any problem. It may be easier on the smaller screen but it is do-able on a larger screen as well.
I say again, I think Apple is leaving a ton of money on that table by not at least giving users a choice, but more importantly driving some people who would otherwise be iOS users, to the Android ecosystem.
If you feel the need to be using your phone while opening or closing a door or going up/down stairs, then you have some phone addiction problems.
Personally I'm not sure this would be the right direction for Apple. Perhaps if they kept the current size iPhone and also release a second larger size it could work. The problem is they may cheapen the experience; people will want the bigger one to be *cool* and have the biggest but they would loose the real satisfying experience the current size affords them.
Bigger isn't always better. At this rate, throw a Qualcomm chip into an iPad Mini and call it a day.
While the iPhone has had impressive hardware improvements, it's stretching out developed tech by creating more variations of the same product.
I believe Jobs' biggest contribution to Apple wasn't the iPod or the iMac or the iPhone, it was Jobs' business model. By cutting production of lackluster products, Apple was able to focus on quality, not quantity. In fact, Steve Jobs' "Four Quadrants" in 1997 is so well regarded, among the first search results is a Harvard Business School article from 2012 by Walter Isaacson, "The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs"
It's rather ironic that Apple cut their successful and stellar desktop products such as their three CCFL LCD Cinema Displays to 1 iMac LED LCD panel, "thinned" and lightened a desktop system by removing technology many still require and adding back mobile parts for some models, and left their most expensive power system sit untouched for over three years. Yet, we have last years iPhone 5 in new colorful poly shells, a $499 "iPad Air" next to a 2011 $399 iPad 2, with more sizes on the horizon.
Arguably, Apple needs the new Mac Pro to be a success or it may cut it after all. Further iOS device fragmentation while taking focus off proper and timely desktop systems has some weary without Steve Jobs, Apple may get lost in iOS "Candy Land".
I remember when Apple used to have a 3-tier system as well. It's a shame they cut it down to two in the interest of "focus". I feel that there is really no reason for them not to go back to it; they're products are focused enough. The issue now is scaling. A three tier approach like they used to have provides a broader spectrum of products that target more customers.
To me, it seems like they're doing it backwards: at the height of their popularity (and financial success), they're still cutting down. Back in the day this would make sense, as Apple was still building momentum.
But I feel this is the time to expand, not by providing new/different/wildly-left-field products, but to extend the choices of current products by scaling them up (iPhone +, MBP17) and down (21" TB display). They are ceding these categories now, because it's clear there is a market for them, and Apple is wildly popular now-much more so than ever before.
I would love for them to have the following lineup:
-iPhone mini (3.5"), iPhone (4"), iPhone + (5")--kill the pointless 5c type
-iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro (13")
-11" MBA, 13" MBA, 15" MBA (would be nice with the hi-res screen on the defunct CMBP, but even the standard screen would work)
-13" MBPr, 15" MBPr, 17" MBPr,
-21" TB Display, 27" TB Display, 30+" TB Display (4K?)
-21" iMac, 27" iMac, 30+" iMac(4K?)
-good, better, best Mac Pro (start with 1 graphics card model vs 2)
As they've said before, if you are to cannibalize sales, it's best to cannibalize from yourself than to cede to the other guys..
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And I laugh at the people squinting at their tiny screens on their iphones, so what's your point? SOu7nds like you need to go back to a flip phone.
plus the whole thing not working with one hand is fixed too!
There's a 3rd party device for that!
http://www.androidcentral.com/hold-any-device-one-hand-just-6-bucks
honestly, I moved up from my iPhone4 to an iPhone5S, and I do miss the smaller form factor of my iPhone4. I think that if Apple offered the iPhone5S in a 3.5" form factor I think I would take it, I miss that form factor, it was small sleek and easy to use one handed. Not that the iPhone5S is not, but I've had to get used to holding the phone differently to reach all the areas of the screen, or holding it in the other hand to reach certain controls (ie, Feedly the back button at the left (or i guess i could just get used to flicking the screen up)).
Waiting until Next Year
I think I'm switching to an Android device at X-Mas. I've been on the 4 and then 4s for quite awhile and am tired of the small form factor. Not to mention iOS7 really doesn't work all that well. Despite what people say, the larger screens - even the 4.5 inchers just feel nice in the hands and on the eyes. Realistically it'll probably be at least another 12 months before I could even get one of the larger screen ones and that's assuming one is released next summer - with a 6 month wait before I can walk into a store and get one without jumping through hoops.
I think I'm switching to an Android device at X-Mas. I've been on the 4 and then 4s for quite awhile and am tired of the small form factor. Not to mention iOS7 really doesn't work all that well. Despite what people say, the larger screens - even the 4.5 inchers just feel nice in the hands and on the eyes. Realistically it'll probably be at least another 12 months before I could even get one of the larger screen ones and that's assuming one is released next summer - with a 6 month wait before I can walk into a store and get one without jumping through hoops.
If your just curving or tapering the edges of the glass around the corners does that not make the unit like a hundred more times susceptible to breaking when dropped?