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Apple Rumored to Debut 4.8-Inch 'iPhone Math' in June
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If I couldn't wait, I'd own a Samsung Note.
I have to admit they are pretty awesome.
Not only the screen but the operating system might be buggy and crash but it looks better than the iOS and it practically doesmore too.
I am disappointed with the iphone 5. In landscape, it is unusable. The screen proportion is great for video but useless for anything else. Try reading a text
Message conversation in landscape. Only one or 2
Lines fit. Very limiting...
but, since I am an apple user since 1986, Once you go Mac, you don't go back!
1. The Note is hideous.
2. A bugging, crashing, good looking OS is NOT better then a stable one.
3. "does more" is 2 words.
4. The Note is hideous
go bigger and smaller
4.8 and 3.8
easy to remember and to market
also remember when apple was competing with licensed apple cpu builders?!
everyone gravitated to the newest latest that was offered by these other companies
made apple look like they were dated with their periodic updates
need to compete a little differently now that samsung is doing so well
???
4.8 and 3.8
easy to remember and to market
also remember when apple was competing with licensed apple cpu builders?!
everyone gravitated to the newest latest that was offered by these other companies
made apple look like they were dated with their periodic updates
need to compete a little differently now that samsung is doing so well
???
Remember Steve Ballmer's comments on the iPhone. Such an expensive phone without 3G and such was not supposed to sell. I think Steve Jobs was right about the iPhone, iPad, the walled garden iOS, and Flash. You can say that "Droid does" more because it has Flash and has no restrictions, but it's still worse.
Size is a feature
I for one would love a larger screen and so will millions of others.
At some point we are going to have a plateau on the CPU and the camera and the rest of the hardware. Apple then can always sell the new iPhone with a bigger screen. It's a feature that will make millions buy it. It's a no brainer.
I've carried much larger and thicker devices in my pocket. I used to carry a Sony Clie AND a cell phone for a while, a larger iPhone would be no big deal.
Bring it on Apple!
I for one would love a larger screen and so will millions of others.
At some point we are going to have a plateau on the CPU and the camera and the rest of the hardware. Apple then can always sell the new iPhone with a bigger screen. It's a feature that will make millions buy it. It's a no brainer.
I've carried much larger and thicker devices in my pocket. I used to carry a Sony Clie AND a cell phone for a while, a larger iPhone would be no big deal.
Bring it on Apple!
It's very hard to find a company that does anything like Apple does except for design copying (ahem Sony). If Apple starts following what other companies do, I'm going to dump all my AAPL on the grounds that Apple is dead without Steve Jobs and is no longer smarter than I am.
Still, Apple making a big iPhone would not scare me.
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Is it just me, or do a lot of "MacRumors newbies" say the same thing here?
Problem is, the current market isn't quite what it used to be. If Apple were to continue as is, they'd lose more and more marketshare to companies willing to expand beyond their original vision of it...which honestly hasn't changed all that much since 2007.
In short, Apple has to evolve in response to the competition as much as the competition has to evolve in response to them. They don't exist in a monopolized vacuum, sitting around, not doing much of anything besides the occasional incremental update a'la Microsoft back in the late 90's-early 00's.
Ballmer was actually halfway right. The original iPhone hardly flew off the shelves, and didn't become the huge success it is today until the advent of the app store and the subsidized pricing models that came along with the 3G.
Do you have sales figures to support your assertion? I don't think Apple needs to worry about app fragmentation if this larger phone runs iPad apps. I don't think it can run iPhone apps as it will need to be wider.
I wish all the people who claim they want a bigger phone would just use the ipad mini as there phone.
It's almost comical to see people with these huge screens, so why not the ipad mini phone?
From what I see they always have their phone in their hand anyway, as it doesn''t fit into pockets easily.
Maybe put it on a lanyard LOL
I wouldn't mind except I think Apple would also decide the smaller one should be the "economy" model with not as good processor or as good features (I mean the 13" MBP is like that, even the ipad mini has lesser specs). And, well, I just don't trust Apple wouldn't do that if they also introduced a big screen. Some of us like having a premium phone without having the big screen.
I call BS
I don't believe this for a second. The name is something Apple would never use.
In Apple's terms, this might be the big reason to bring more and more production back to the States: to be able to keep secrets again. Will they have a bigger screen? I don't know. I could live with a 4S size screen.
I don't believe this for a second. The name is something Apple would never use.
In Apple's terms, this might be the big reason to bring more and more production back to the States: to be able to keep secrets again. Will they have a bigger screen? I don't know. I could live with a 4S size screen.
1. The Note is hideous.
2. A bugging, crashing, good looking OS is NOT better then a stable one.
3. "does more" is 2 words.
4. The Note is hideous
You just lost credibility. At least with me. And I am sure many others.
But do tell us about your extensive Note and Android experience.
Well, why did Microsoft try to make Windows "pretty"?
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Please! I'm not a fan of the longer screen at all
Well, alright, it's not that bad, but I preferred the old one.
I see this a lot on both sides of the fence. Android is "complex", and iOS is "simple". You know, in the grand scheme of things, neither one of them are what I'd consider a rocket scientist's OS. Yeah, Android lets you choose default apps, lets you customize a little more (well...a lot more), and has access to a rudimentary file system. But as far as everyday usage goes, they're about the same. You see pretty picture of thing you want to use, you press pretty picture with finger, then watch as pretty picture changes into something that does stuff.