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I wish the coming new iPhone will have at least 4.1' screen
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What problems has the 4S experienced? I'm not exactly clear on this here.
Changing the back casing and the size of the screen is all they can do besides removing the home button and moving ports/buttons around the frame.
The things they can do to change that back casing are fairly limited. They could make the back a teardrop shape like a bunch of renders from last year, but then you have to ask yourself how practical that is for component placement. I don't know if you've opened an iPhone recently, but they're pretty well crammed into the space that exists as is. They make it much thinner and they'll have to sacrifice room for the battery, and although battery technology improves every year, I'd be very surprised to see it increase substantially enough to drive the same resolution on a faster processor with an LTE chipset using a physically smaller battery. They could curve the back like they did with the 3G or 3GS, but again, a curved back leaves far less usable space than a flat back of the same depth. They can bevel the back so that there is more of a grip when picking it up from a desktop or table (which is what I see when I look at the "leaked" case). Show me a phone that does something different than one of these three approaches to rear case design on a touchscreen phone.
For each of those possible changes, they can play around with materials. Plastics are pretty much out of the question now, considering that Apple doesn't have a single plastic product that isn't a mouse anymore. They've used glass for two generations, but there's a limit to what can be done with that glass aside from maybe curving it. Everything Apple currently does, with the exception of the iPhone, uses a unibody aluminum construction, so it would make sense for them to go that route. Of course, I suppose they could use a wooden case, but that isn't going to be a great dissipater of heat. Carbon fibre might be an option if it can be done at a reasonable price and produced at volume easily enough.
I know what more can be done. My argument is that, from a practical standpoint, most options don't make much sense and would do little more than change for change's sake.
Loyalty to any corporation is misplaced anyway. Use what works for you instead of worshipping at the altar of some brand.
Most professionals find Apple's OS useless these days? These NASA employees beg to differ. Staying on topic with the iPhone, I'm happy with the current size. I can see everything fine, fits well in the hand, easy getting in and out of my pocket. I don't want or need a gigantic phone. If that's what people need then those people need to shop elsewhere.
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Yes. your picture totally destroys my points Perry Mason.
Apple is lucky to have someone like you watching their back.
Congratulations!
I carry an iphone 4 in my front pocket and I put a Galaxy S3 in there to see how it fit and it was less noticeable than the iphone somehow. Maybe because of being thinner and tapered edges. The overall length and width seemed to matter less.