IPhone 5: Give me a bigger screen and i'll be a happy camper

I don't see apple doing anything over 4" for a while. That seems to be the perfect medium for people who still like the smaller screen and people who want a little bigger....4.2" tops!

 

4.5 isn't happening.


4" is the rumor. Perhaps in a generation or two the iPhone will setting in to a larger than 4" size.

 

Well if the rumours are true, longphone ftw.

I think you will just have to live with it for a while. It doesn't look like like they are in a hurry to give us anything over 4". LOL! That just seems funny when you read it!!

 

It needs to be taller and wider. But here on MR allegedly everyone uses their phones in landscape mode so it doesn't matter about width

 

you mean portrait mode? Landscape people would want wider....portrait...not so much. I'm in the portrait crowd so wide doesn't matter

 

4.3" would be ideal. Why bother upgrading from a 4S to get an elongated 4S.

 

LTE alone is worth it to me

 

Nope, apparently "landscapers" just want taller so then it becomes wider when you turn it if that makes sense? They don't want wider when the phone is standing up. iPhone needs to be 4.3-4.5in to get back the #1 ranking from the S3 imo, 4in just doesn't really make sense.

 

There was an article last year, I can't find anymore, but it said that Apple made a major Billion $ deal with LG & Sharp to produce 4.3" screens for a future Apple product.

I will not be shocked one bit, if we do indeed see 4.3" on the iPhone5, that will still look like a small screen compared to all Android phones, with the going size now being 4.8", an the upcoming Galaxy Note 2 at 5.5", and next Nexus said to be going close to 5" screen.

 

I feel like Apple is trying their best not to make the from factor any larger. They may feel like 4 in is as large as they can go to still keep the phone size reasonable. This is not necessarily my opinion though and just a guess as to Apple's thoughts.

Making the phone wider will definitely impact using the keyboard with one hand. I experienced that on my galaxy nexus.

 

4.3" screen with 3:2 aspect ratio FTW

 

If the rumors are true and the next phone is just the elongated 4" screen, then it would be 2 years before another form factor change.

To me it would be stupid of Apple to loose 2 years of sales from disappointed buyers. Yes there will be the fanboys still buying it but for people that have the blinders off and are able to see the value from having a larger screen, they will be leaving the iphone.

 

I don't think it's super hard to increase the size of the phone. They must not be doing it for a reason. The only reason I can come up with is that there are more people that prefer 4 inch as opposed to 4+.

 

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/02/sharp-president-confirms-shipments-of-displays-for-new-iphone-this-month/

You'll get a 4 inch screen.

 

This x1000000

I drew out a 4.3" 3:2 screen last week, and it would be absolutely perfect. In fact, apple would only need to make the overall width of the phone slightly wider. The 4.3" screen could fit in the current iPhones height specs if they get rid of the huge black bezels. Or at the very worst make the phone slightly taller as well.

Boom. It's solved.

F this only taller phone. It looks disproportional and unappealing

 

You will. I'm not saying no more.

 

I'll be getting a 4.8" screen

 

This was a iPhone thread so that's what I was referring too! Never mind.

 

screen size aside, these leaks are not anywhere near the same design as the 4/4S.

Different back, different band, different port, different speakers, something definitely different about that camera (the physical size), headphone jack moved (not really significant but still totally different from 4S).

And then yeah, the screen will be bigger.

The only thing staying the same is that god awful home button, and with it that god awfully huge bezel.