What's with all these people complaining about screen size? I understand that most numbers should go up with new tech (like megapixel count, storage, battery life, processor speed, etc.) but the screen size doesn't. It's like being disappointed that the new Nissan Altima has the same size wheels as last years... duh... they're going with what makes sense. I could understand being mad if the car has the same horsepower, nav system, and gas mileage as last year, but the wheels? Who cares... same for the screen. Your hands didn't get bigger did they?
I'm most likely going to be going from my Droid X to this so it's not like I have no experience with a larger screen... 4.3" has its benefits but its mostly drawbacks. One thing I noticed though strikes me... pulling down the android notification bar on a 4.3" screen is rather annoying, having me shift my hand and reposition my phone to grab the top of the screen. Trying the same action on my 3.5" iPod touch, and it's fine; no maneuvering at all. There's a reason they have a 3.5" screen. Even with the 4" screen on the Incredible 2 I had for a while required some moving around... and it's not like I could type any faster really. I could only type so fast on my X before the usual Android slowness caught up and prevented me from going any faster and the keyboard on the Incredible 2, while less laggy, wasn't really too big of a difference... I can type just as fast on the 3.5" as I could on my X with the 4.3" and, with the better overall keyboard of iOS, it's a better experience overall and typing is quicker. Would it have been nice to have a 4" or at least a 3.7" screen on the IP4S? Yeah, but it's not like .5 or .3 inches are that big of a deal... and if the form factor means a bigger phone, I'll take the smaller screen.
... not to mention that I'd take the resolution on the IP4S' screen over a larger screen with a lower on anything else.
One little thing I noticed, the 4.3" screens that are on many Android phones (like my Droid X) are 16x9 screens, where as Apple's 3.5" isn't... so typing in portrait, which is when I type the majority of my messages, the keyboard is the same size on my Droid X that it is on an iPhone 4 or 4S... no difference... the display on the X is taller... that's all. So movies are nicer, and landscape typing is nicer, but other than that, it's not really any different...
The one thing I'm a little irked about is that they introduced a 64GB model, something very appealing to me considering my music library alone is 70GB, but didn't decrease the prices (ie. 32GB iPhone 4S for $199 and 64GB iPhone 4S for $299). This would be the deal breaker for me... I'd get a 64GB in a heartbeat to facilitate it... but 400 is a lot of money...
Another thing is of course 4G LTE capabilities and I know, I know, I wasn't expecting it at all and wasn't surprised when there wasn't LTE included, but considering my area has 4G and I often travel back and forth to NYC, an area also blanketed by 4G, I'm still considering whether or not I should jump the android ship to the iPhone ecosystem... my thought is that, since I'm in college for 2 more years and happen to be blanketed by WiFi anyway, I might as well just get the 4S and use the WiFi and 3G together to get the same speeds anyway.
Decisions decisions... only question I have is whether or not the Verizon iPhone 4S can get the quicker 3G speeds that the dual antenna switching offers, or of it is only for the HSDPA networks. If not, that'd be disappointing, but definitely not a deal breaker...
iPhone. Now using touch.
