How Big Will iP6 Be?

[jcpb]

If anything 4 inches. Don't want a Phablet.

A phablet is 5.5"+. My SGS4 is nowhere close to being a phablet at 5". The 4" iP5 is too small however.

Why would you want a phone you have to get accustomed to?

My brother had a Galaxy Note 2. He lives in China now, though, so his has the obligatory dual-SIM slot version. Anyways, I saw what he had, then looked at what my 4S had. iPhones really are too small. The SGS4 I can feel its absence if I don't have it in the pockets, the 4S is nearly invisible unless I add a big case to it. The latter + less than friendly locals = a loss waiting to happen.

 

[Bear]

If the iPhone 6 doesn't at least go to 4.3" (preferably 4.5 or bigger), I'm switching to Android.
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Would you be happy if Apple made a phone with a 4.3" or 4.5" screen, but it was the same resolution as the current 4" screen?

One of the reasons that iOS works better than Android for app developers is the limited screen resolutions that you need to design the app to work with.

 

[bjb.butler]

Would you be happy if Apple made a phone with a 4.3" or 4.5" screen, but it was the same resolution as the current 4" screen?

One of the reasons that iOS works better than Android for app developers is the limited screen resolutions that you need to design the app to work with.

Yeah, I would be fine with that. I'm not a resolution freak, as long as the text is still sharp I'm happy!

But I'm sure Apple has (will have) APIs for proper scaling for different screen sizes and resolutions. For android developers, it's really easy to get your app to scale properly for different phone sizes.

 

[chrisaster]

Over in the IOS forums, some developers have suggested that the real reason for IOS7's switch to text-based elements (which scale) and the elimination of bitmap-based graphics and toolbars (which don't scale well) is to create a vector-based UI that scales to any resolution and any size screen, so developers can design once for any sized phone.

Cool thanks for that! Very good to know...

Could mean that apple could produce a number of different sizes iphones in the future.

 

[ET iPhone Home]

A full redesign.