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Apple's Next iPhone Needs A Wider Screen
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Lol. I remember when this forum was boiling over with opinions of the 3.5 inch iPhone screen never changing.
That being said, I'm not a man of large proportions especially in my hands... I owned several android 4.3 devices and as able to comfortably work the phone one handed when I needed/wanted to (checking notifications, composing texts, composing emails, face booking, twitter, and making phone calls). I didn't find very many thing that required two hands or a modified grip.
While my thumb couldn't cover every square inch of my screen, I really didn't find any if at all functions that I couldn't operate the phone one handed.
That being said, I'm not a man of large proportions especially in my hands... I owned several android 4.3 devices and as able to comfortably work the phone one handed when I needed/wanted to (checking notifications, composing texts, composing emails, face booking, twitter, and making phone calls). I didn't find very many thing that required two hands or a modified grip.
While my thumb couldn't cover every square inch of my screen, I really didn't find any if at all functions that I couldn't operate the phone one handed.
I wouldn't count on a bigger screen for the better part of 2 more years if not longer. It has become quite apparent apple is scared of change since Steve Jobs died. Their phones and operating system have had nothing but minuscule upgrades and nothing revolutionary. Scott Forstall was one of the few people left at apple that was willing to take risks (although he took the wrong risk with maps), with him gone I truly believe apple is going to become quite a stagnant company who will be playing catch up to other devices on the market. Of course I could be wrong but I see it happening already!
When 4.3 comes to iphone you will love it too and hate the other "larger" screens
No. I would still hate it no matter what but I could live with it since my hands are pretty big. I can ALMOST hold my iPad 3rd gen with one hand but it's 1 cm too large.
No. I would still hate it no matter what but I could live with it since my hands are pretty big. I can ALMOST hold my iPad 3rd gen with one hand but it's 1 cm too large.
Not sure how someone will live with something they hate
Not sure how someone will live with something they hate
Are you just trying to ''troll'' me?
OMG do you even know the meaning of "trolling" ? Or is that the only thing you can say when you choke ?
Apple made it taller because they HAD to. People were screaming about the iPhone's tiny screen and they thought longer was the only acceptable compromise for it's fans. Apple people were freaking out over even thinking about Apple increasing the screen size and yet after only a few months the refer to their 4s as a "stubby brick".
Yep, wider would be better, just taller was . . well it is just taller. I use a S3 and you will be shocked at how easy it is to navigate with one hand. That is if you get over the mental thing and just try!
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Get out of here.
I really like my iPhone 5 and think that the screen is perfect. I dont think it needs to get any bigger, its still a phone 1st and foremost. In all honesty they could have kept it 3.5 and i would have been happy. I have an iPad and an iMac for larger screens.
Samsung makes good phones. I still can't get pass the OS and the droid eco-system.
Don't see why devs updating their apps would be a problem. Inconvenient yeah, but They could run letterboxed until they do update, just like when the 5 came out.
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The thing is that lots of people use their smartphones for doing things other than making calls. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a large majority of people bought smartphones so they could do things besides make calls. I know I make calls pretty infrequently on my iPhone, don't know about the rest of you. So the argument that "it's a phone so it should be small anyway" doesn't hold much water these days. The phone is just another app on the device really.
I have an iPad and a Mac too, but I don't carry those with me wherever i go. My iPhone is with me all the time. If it had a larger screen, the use cases for carrying around an additional device becomes harder to justify. The best device is the one that you'll always have on you.
More horizontal pixels would be dramatically more difficult to code for, and I'm quite sure they're reluctant to keep foisting new expectations on their developers.
I'm in no way a dev, so I can't comment on the difficulty of coding for more horizontal pixels. But in this world of ever changing tech, adapt or die, right? If I was a dev, and apple told me to update my cash cow app for their new larger device that was again expected to sell in the tens of millions, you bet I'd hate doing the extra work, but gotta do what you gotta do.
Apple throws out the old as quick as anyone, and expects people to adapt all the time. Lightning connector is just one example, I'm sure there are others.
"Ditto" MikeyMike. Apple will not go wider, and no to some that think Apple is playing catch up. They are a company that takes their time with their product, proven by many years of doing same.
The 5 isn't perfect, that's the problem with it. The 4's were perfect for their time. The S3 is too big but guess what? A lot of people love that size. Apple needs to go bigger and come out with a mini. It's the recipe for success right now and for the next 5 years. Stock would have doubled and split if they did, instead it's tanking like a sack of bricks. Wake up. You might like the 5, I love it - but it's not the right move to continue dominating this segment.
Samsung sold 18M galaxy s3 phones last quarter. If I was in charge of apple, I'd be crazy to not want a piece of that market. If a buyer wants a phone with a larger screen, they have no choice but to go android. Personally I think the GS3 is too big as well, but clearly millions of other people don't.
This post is totally baffling, in particular the bolded parts.
1. He likes the wider displays from other phones to view 16:9 content. But the iPhone 5 is 16:9.
2. He really likes the iPad, and says it's superior for viewing Apple's 16:9 video content. But the iPad is 4:3, even the older iPhones have a 1:1.5 aspect ratio.