You mean that it will have a 4" screen, but it won't be wider since that would mess with the grip and usage.
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iOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display
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You mean that it will have a 4" screen, but it won't be wider since that would mess with the grip and usage.
Can someone explain to me why everyone always says that developers will need to reformat all of their apps to fit a larger screen? Doesn't Android have a bunch of a different size phones and somehow apps are able to work on all those different sizes. Am I missing something here-- why would Apple developers need to reformat apps based on screen size but Android doesn't have to?
I'm guessing that Android apps have to either come with many different sizes or they just scale it. And scaling could mess with the GUI.
Right on.
Lol I bet you Samsung will start releasing taller screened phones after Apple releases the "iPhone 5"
Lol I bet you Samsung will start releasing taller screened phones after Apple releases the "iPhone 5"
How many times in the history of iPhone releases have we gotten this close to the release without having a handful of known hardware updates already? We knew about the knew shape and size of the 4, we knew what Siri was going to do, and we knew about the A5 chip. Please have a seat.
I was being sarcastic
hence the ''/s''
/s is for ending a "crossed out text" thing. Except that somehow doesn't work here.
It has to do with Android developers. Since they have been used to many different screen sizes in the past, they are used to developing their apps for 'any' screen size, and resizing their components based on screen size. It's something they already do. (It's harder work - but they're used to it)
iOS developers have NOT been used to checking for screen size. They develop for 1 screen size for the iPhone and 1 screen size for the iPad (iOS takes care of resizing for retina). They have no need to worry about screen sizes.
If iOS truly resizes based on the new screen size, then iOS developers still have nothing to worry about here either. But if iOS developers want to use the extra screen real-estate, they have to re-code their apps to check for screen size to use the 'extra row' of pixels.
No biggie though. It looks like all the existing iOS apps will work the way they're coded. No fragmentation at all.
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Things like RAM and upgraded CPU are things that are always expected. I don't want to upgrade to just a faster phone or a better processor, I want to upgrade to a phone that can do more things than the one I have now. Exactly why most people didnt upgrade to the 4S, Siri wasnt enough. The NFC capability can completely change how people can use their iPhones. Very much looking forward to the possibility of this addition.
My new Retina Macbook Pro is 16:10. The two top-of-the-line Dell Ultrasharp monitors I just bought are 16:10. My iPad is 4:3 and my iPhone is 2:3. In fact, I can barely remember the last time I bought something with a 16:9 screen. Probably my TV.
Most content I see has to be cropped to fit 16:9. Almost all movies are 1.85:1 or 2.39:1. In fact, the only thing I can think of that's actually "optimized for 16:9" is TV shows. A pretty narrow market if you ask me.
The thing Apple does with every new version is make changes that aren't earth shattering but better. From one version to the next it is sometimes difficult to see much change. If you take the beginning item and compare it to the current item the change is more dramatic.
Compare Cheetah to ML
Compare IOS 1.0 to 6.0 beta
I was mistaken about the MacBooks. But regardless, on 16:9 the following is true:
Wiki suggests that 16:9 has become the standard for smartphone devices as well, though it's not a sourced statement. 16:9 is the future. It's the way to go, especially as Apple will face increased competition in the tablet and smartphone space. Don't want to be the odd man out. And you can benefit from scaling apps to the iTV.
That's what my friends said when the iPad was coming out. I laughed as I held while they sold.
Yes, Androids app in general just scale to any size. But the result can look somewhat weird and offer limited functionality. Remember when the first 7" Android tablets came out, running Android 2.3? You had the same UI elements you had on your 4" Android phone but just spaced out and stretched out much more.
Sure, for apps that display infinitely scaleable content (eg, images, movies), this does not matter at all. This applies largely also to text (though at some point text columns can become too wide to be easily readable). Good programmers change more when designing for different screen sizes (eg, add more buttons with more functionality on the larger screens though you then have a different UX because some functions are hidden in a separate level on smaller devices and might have their own button on larger devices).
Apple is simply trying to mislead copiers...
They are simply releasing a whole bunch of fake leaks to mislead scamscum. What scamscum releasing a whole bunch of "new" phones with an extra row of icons and bam! Apple comes out with a taller AND wider iPhone with 5x5 rows of icons. Now Apple's iPhone is the perfect size while the rest of the droids bask in Apple's fake leaks.
They are simply releasing a whole bunch of fake leaks to mislead scamscum. What scamscum releasing a whole bunch of "new" phones with an extra row of icons and bam! Apple comes out with a taller AND wider iPhone with 5x5 rows of icons. Now Apple's iPhone is the perfect size while the rest of the droids bask in Apple's fake leaks.
Yeah, I don't care about what specs my phone has. Most people don't need good phone hardware or even good PC hardware. A low-end MacBook Air can already do everything but high-end games (which only some play, not including me) and video editing (which not many do, but I do it). And this is a little phone, not a PC. What do you need on a phone that requires better hardware than my brother's iMac?
Does anyone know how they got the Simulator into the 1136x640 mode?
I've tried changing the resolution by editing the deviceinfo Info.plist's in:
iPhone Simulator.app/Contents/Resources/Devices/
But this causes the edited device to not show up in the device list. Did they post info on how they did this anywhere?
I've tried changing the resolution by editing the deviceinfo Info.plist's in:
iPhone Simulator.app/Contents/Resources/Devices/
But this causes the edited device to not show up in the device list. Did they post info on how they did this anywhere?
Taller iPhone 1136x640 WTF
IMHO, all these announcements or rumors and are not very convincing...
I don't know if a taller iPhone will be as ergonomic as the previous versions , wouldn't it be better to widen the phone with a display between 4 and 4.5 '?
1136x640 WTF IMHO, all these announcements or rumors and are not very convincing...
I don't know if a taller iPhone will be as ergonomic as the previous versions , wouldn't it be better to widen the phone with a display between 4 and 4.5 '?
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OK, you've asked for it. A screenshot of this will be posted on an article about the taller iPhone when it is released.
