um. yeah. Why would apple release the same exact phone they've even selling for the past year with a colored plastic body and market it as new? They've totally never done that before.../s
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um. yeah. Why would apple release the same exact phone they've even selling for the past year with a colored plastic body and market it as new? They've totally never done that before.../s
Way to large, sorry but phone needs to fit in my pocket.
Way to large, sorry but phone needs to fit in my pocket.
Way to large, sorry but phone needs to fit in my pocket.
Keep the Current iPhone 5 Size
I agree! I hope this larger size is just an option/alternative and they maintain the current phone size.
For those of us who still use the iPhone as a "phone": that fits in your pocket and doesn't look ridiculous when holding it to your ear and making a call.
And for when I want a larger screen, that's what I have my iPad mini & iPad Air for!
I want a 4 inch iPhone 6 screenwe shouldn't be forced in order to get the next iPhone...to have a huge screen.
I agree! I hope this larger size is just an option/alternative and they maintain the current phone size.
For those of us who still use the iPhone as a "phone": that fits in your pocket and doesn't look ridiculous when holding it to your ear and making a call.
And for when I want a larger screen, that's what I have my iPad mini & iPad Air for!
That is if the 5s and 5c stay in the lineup. I think Apple should offer a smaller iPhone with similar styling to the iPhone 6, but with last year's specs to keep costs down, maybe re-branding it "iPhone mini" for women and some men who have issues with an iPhone approaching the size of a Galaxy.
Skinny jeans/small purses and this larger iPhone won't be a good combination.
Of course they will stay in the lineup, at least the 5s will. If it is going away in September, well, you still have plenty of time to buy one.
This concern reminds me last year's "oval" home button (touch ID) concern before 5S was released! Don't worry folks, Apple will figure out the best way.....
If that's your plan, you'd better upgrade before the iPhone 6 is released, because there will be no 64GB 5S after that. If it still exists it will most likely be maxed out at 32GB. More likely, it will be discontinued and the 5C will be upgraded with TouchID and an A7. It will probably come in an 8GB capacity model to replace the 4S in those markets the 4S still exists, and a 16GB and 32GB model as the mid-range offering. The 6 of course being the flagship may even extend to 128GB options, since iPads have had this for the last couple of generations, even the mini got it this time around.
My take, if anyone cares, on the 5.5" model is that it most likely isn't even an iPhone if it actually is a product coming to market. It could be a new iPod Touch, and if it is, it won't come with a cellular option, and will run the exact same resolution as the 4.7" iPhone. That would make sense given how the iPod Touch has been treated in the past, always a step below the iPhone generation it is released with. If it had cellular capability, it would probably have to be marketed as an iPad nano or something because it won't be given the phone app and that presents too many problems with consistency, because iPad apps on a 5.5" 16:9 screen don't work. The only place for a 5.5" anything is as an iPod Touch or gaming device.
Much more likely scenario is that the 5.5" device is a prototype that made it to an advanced stage but will never see the light of day. It was probably 4.7" or 5.5" and never both. 4.7" won out. Much like the teardrop iPhone 5 design that everyone was making renderings and mock-ups and case makers were making cases for in the build up to that release.
Too bad really, as it seems like 4" was a stop gap intermediary measure. I think we'll be seeing 4.7" as the size of the iPhone for longer than just one design generation, and if they could have just done it with the iPhone 5 right away, it probably would have had a positive impact overall, but it seems like there was a lot that just wasn't in place for it to happen from both component price and availability and software readiness perspectives. It's not like they haven't done well in any case, the financial results, sales numbers, and user experience speak for themselves, really.
Will be an interesting second half of 2014 in any case
Rumours coming very early this year, so for people like us that roam the tech rumours world, WWDC will probably be a let down as we have to wait even longer to hear anything official on hardware from Apple. Lots of stuff apparently in the pipeline, new product category rumours, new design generation for iPhone and possibly Macbook Air, wearables rumours all over the place, etc.
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Because that's exactly what they did last year???
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Sweden & California, nice, same here
Don't worry, the 5C will be upgraded with the 5S internals and will sell with capacities from 8GB to 32GB. 4" 5C and 4.7" 6.
Yeah whoops... I can't even believe I said that. Don't know what I was thinking! Haha
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Whoopsie. Don't mind me, just haven't had any coffee today.
Why not wider? Doesn't make sense
I just don't understand Apple. Why are they making it taller, but not wider? I don't know anybody who's been clamoring for a screen that is just taller. The major problem with the iPhone 5/5s - concerning readability etc. - is the width. A slightly wider phone would make it better to use in both portrait and landscape mode.
It really seems to me that Apple has lost what I would call an intuitive sense for usability. Previously, it was Apple that made the products that just made sense for all of us simple end users that just wanted our products to work. Not so any more. The form factor of HTC One, for example, is much more intuitive. It makes more sense. This "tall and slim" form factor might satisfy the increasingly strange taste of Jony Ive, but it isn't the most intuitive for users (except that people get used to everything, and end up rationalizing Apple's choices as making more sense than they actually do). Same thing goes for pursuing thinness over battery life: If there is one thing that people have been complaining about with the iPhones, it is battery life and the need for frequent charging. Then why isn't Apple doing something about this? Why? If their main goal was to make intuitive, ease-to-use products, they would surely put this higher on their priority list. But they don't.
I'm heavily invested in the Apple eco system, unfortunately, and rely on a lot of programs for my work that work better on the mac than on windows or linux (scrivener, papers, etc). And I mostly use Airplay for listening to music at home, which still functions much better than DLNA, bluetooth etc. So I'm not leaving Apple yet. But if they keep making products (and software) that sacrifice usability for bling-bling and what not, then I will one day make the jump.
I just don't understand Apple. Why are they making it taller, but not wider? I don't know anybody who's been clamoring for a screen that is just taller. The major problem with the iPhone 5/5s - concerning readability etc. - is the width. A slightly wider phone would make it better to use in both portrait and landscape mode.
It really seems to me that Apple has lost what I would call an intuitive sense for usability. Previously, it was Apple that made the products that just made sense for all of us simple end users that just wanted our products to work. Not so any more. The form factor of HTC One, for example, is much more intuitive. It makes more sense. This "tall and slim" form factor might satisfy the increasingly strange taste of Jony Ive, but it isn't the most intuitive for users (except that people get used to everything, and end up rationalizing Apple's choices as making more sense than they actually do). Same thing goes for pursuing thinness over battery life: If there is one thing that people have been complaining about with the iPhones, it is battery life and the need for frequent charging. Then why isn't Apple doing something about this? Why? If their main goal was to make intuitive, ease-to-use products, they would surely put this higher on their priority list. But they don't.
I'm heavily invested in the Apple eco system, unfortunately, and rely on a lot of programs for my work that work better on the mac than on windows or linux (scrivener, papers, etc). And I mostly use Airplay for listening to music at home, which still functions much better than DLNA, bluetooth etc. So I'm not leaving Apple yet. But if they keep making products (and software) that sacrifice usability for bling-bling and what not, then I will one day make the jump.
i hope the dont put the Sleep/wake button on the side like that, the Samsung Galaxy S2 i had did that, and everytime i went to adjust the volume i turned the phone off due to having to push the volume up on one side, and grip on the other, i always griped right where the damn sleep/wake was.
I didn't really see a need for the larger iPhone 5 screen; I was OK with the 4S size. But I tried the 5 and liked it. So even though I am satisfied with the 5S I'll give the bigger one a try. Apple seems to get it right almost every time.
The ratio of metric paper is not the golden ratio. The ratio is sqrt(2) while the golden ratio is (1+sqrt(5))/2
Obviously I was just nitpicking but the 2g and 3g in that photo are clearly smaller than the 3GS and 4 models. I know it's irrelevant but thought I'd point it out.
Hmmm...the 4.7" screen shown and talked about here is wider than the current 4" iPhone 5/5S. It gets larger and maintains the same 16:9 aspect ratio. Why did you think it was only getting taller again?
Because most cannot comprehend the jump from the iPhone 4/4s to the 5 was changing the aspect ratio.
You're right of course. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. My point is that the current form factor of the iPhone 5/5s is not ideal. I've heard many people wishing for a WIDER iPhone 5s, while I haven't heard that many people wishing for a TALLER phone. The main problem from a readability perspective with the current form factor is the width. That was my point. I think Apple chose that form factor in order to allow for one-handed operation, not because of how it would be to actually look at and read on the screen. And it seems like Apple is not giving up on "one handed operation", even though it will probably be difficult anyway with this larger phone. So they sacrifice the actual usability of the screen, imo.