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iPhone 6: size comparison with Android phones
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ok you've repeated the lesson learned on the web. Now please try with something yours, something from your real experience.Some Android phones have powerful hardware for sure. Octocores and 4gigs of RAM. And yet it still feels laggy to me.
For once in your life actually use an iPhone for awhile. Browse the web, run apps, look up documents, etc. Then go back to your octocore android phone with 4gigs of ram and yet it still lags. Applications crash all the time. One phone will get the newest game while your 1 year older phone doesn't (fragmentation). You can only get on average 1 update for your phone. Where apple you can get the update when it comes out.
Explain to me how that is? Because I'm just going to say that iOS is the better operating system. I want the best and the iphone is the best. Do I want larger screens? Yes. I'm not going to sacrifice quality and the best operating system for a larger display however.
Well i am hoping Apple ditch symmetry in favour of going for the smallest form factor with that 4.7" size.
In line with this i have updated the original posters image with my vision of how this could be possible and i think it looks very nice.
Top and bottom areas have been reduced more and now its not much bigger than the iPhone 5 and of course it will be slimmer too.
The side buttons have been moved in line with the power button on right side too.
I think ditching symmetry is the only way Apple can address adding a larger size screen without drastically making it look too big.
Thanks.
In line with this i have updated the original posters image with my vision of how this could be possible and i think it looks very nice.
Top and bottom areas have been reduced more and now its not much bigger than the iPhone 5 and of course it will be slimmer too.
The side buttons have been moved in line with the power button on right side too.
I think ditching symmetry is the only way Apple can address adding a larger size screen without drastically making it look too big.
Thanks.
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But the Nexus 5 lacks Touch ID and the bottom portion of that screen is not usable screen real estate so it's a little deceiving... Google just moved what used to be capacitive buttons into the display.
If Apple removed the home button, they'd still need to replace that functionality somehow... I can see them possibly moving the home button to the side when they figure out how to incorporate Touch ID into the screen.
Ok, but let's put things in perspective... 300 ppi is print quality. Anything above that is just overkill.
Nice to see the phones side by side with the 'expected' size of the iPhone 6 to compare. Its a little larger than I would have hoped but pleasing to see its still smaller than most of the Android offerings. I think its the sweet spot for phone size at the moment and glad Apple have not strayed too far into 'massive' territory. If they produce a 5.5" version it will surely be too big for most I would have thought. 
Am I alone in not actually wanting anything larger than the current 5S-size? I have a 4S myself and that, for me, is the perfect size. 5S I *could* get used to I guess, but anything larger simply doesn't interest me.
After all these years, I'm still not sure why no one has completely get rid of DAT bezel. As for Apple, that is currently not necessary as 3.5/4" is not wide at all. But, with all those Android flagships being wider and wider for normal people to handle, is there a technical problem with producing edge to edge display? Anyone in the industry for this question? BTW, I've notice that iPhones and iPads have an extra slim black stripe around the screen, while it doesn't seems to exist on my HTC One.
Yes, I totally agree. Not everyone wants to drive an SUV.
I get annoyed by all those super big smartphones, when turned on they produce so much light.
and they all wear these ugly big jeans to accommodate for that big smartphone.
this is the new 'belt + cellphone' combination, we are only missing sandals and socks now...ugly as hell.
I believe this forum thread is proving what is wrong with a larger iPhone.
If we stick at symmetry (top/ bottom). And so far all iPads and iPhones did. And all new iPhone mockups do.
I really don't mind a larger screen, but I really do when that means the new iPhone is going to be larger again. And it only gives you more vertical real-estate, if you want to look at a picture, you still need to zoom in.
A friend has the Galaxy S2 and the length of the S2 and iP5 are the same. But not the width. The screen is larger, its a 4.3. But you do have that little bit of more real-estate on your screen where everyone is talking about.
if the phone gets larger again. I am seriously considering to purchase the - hopefully still in the make after releasing the new iPhone - an old model (5S or even the 5C).
To come back to the symmetry:
Lets take a look at another product Apple has sold a few of. The iMac. And lets look at the front. Apple can go for the same form factor. Larger on the bottom than on the top. This means when making the iPhone just a little wider, we all can have our bigger screen and we all still have a small enough phone to handle.
Just my thoughts. I really don't hope for a phone as rendered above, It just doesn't seem right and you have a lot of space but still no screen.
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Agree.
I still didn't get used to the size of the iPhone 5 which I purchased the day it came out in Europe. I wanted it, because of the weight and speed it had against my iPhone 4.
As I said in my other post. A wider phone, makes so much more sense. The screen can be bigger still. The phone doesn't need to.
If we stick at symmetry (top/ bottom). And so far all iPads and iPhones did. And all new iPhone mockups do.
I really don't mind a larger screen, but I really do when that means the new iPhone is going to be larger again. And it only gives you more vertical real-estate, if you want to look at a picture, you still need to zoom in.
A friend has the Galaxy S2 and the length of the S2 and iP5 are the same. But not the width. The screen is larger, its a 4.3. But you do have that little bit of more real-estate on your screen where everyone is talking about.
if the phone gets larger again. I am seriously considering to purchase the - hopefully still in the make after releasing the new iPhone - an old model (5S or even the 5C).
To come back to the symmetry:
Lets take a look at another product Apple has sold a few of. The iMac. And lets look at the front. Apple can go for the same form factor. Larger on the bottom than on the top. This means when making the iPhone just a little wider, we all can have our bigger screen and we all still have a small enough phone to handle.
Just my thoughts. I really don't hope for a phone as rendered above, It just doesn't seem right and you have a lot of space but still no screen.
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Agree.
I still didn't get used to the size of the iPhone 5 which I purchased the day it came out in Europe. I wanted it, because of the weight and speed it had against my iPhone 4.
As I said in my other post. A wider phone, makes so much more sense. The screen can be bigger still. The phone doesn't need to.
Compact cameras use 4:3 and DSLRs use 3:2 aspect ratio, the latter is what the iPhone started with. Only videos use 16:9, and I don't really see why every device with a screen should adapt to this rather stretched size when it's a bad choice for just about all other use cases. So 16:9 should be relegated to TVs and everything else should use at least 16:10 or 3:2, if not 4:3.
I have a 2013 Nexus 7 and it's definitely behind any iPad in terms of smoothness of the UI and touch response throughout the OS. And zooming, panning, resizing in the browser, viewing PDFs, anything similar is still pretty poor compared to iOS.
So its looks like I've got no choice to but to carry around a device thats on par with the size of other 5 inch screen sizes in my pocket.
Either that or stay with old tech. Sigh.
I'm going to hugely miss the iPhone 1 to iPhone 5S days...
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Yeah, its depressingly sad. It annoys me that my iPhone 5S is already too tall.
Either that or stay with old tech. Sigh.
I'm going to hugely miss the iPhone 1 to iPhone 5S days...
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Yeah, its depressingly sad. It annoys me that my iPhone 5S is already too tall.
My bad - I meant his video presention.
Either way it'll be interesting to see him justify the new design after what he said during the 5 launch.
Sadly I'm afraid they are going to make exactly that mistake, to please the whiners of "I want a bigger screen!".
Apple can't trash the touchid, they are actually going to implement it on iPad also, so they need relatively big bezels on top and bottom. Add a 4.7" and you'll have a phone that in the best scenario is as big as a Nexus 5.
Everything above the Moto X is too big for me ...........
There's a saying that one size does not fit all.
The popularity of larger phones shows that Apple is missing out in a larger segment. I don't think people who want a larger phone should be characterized as whiners but rather consumers who feel a larger device better fits their needs.
When it comes to hardware, the screen size is the only thing letting the iPhone down.
Other than RAM, maybe, I guess. But I doubt anyone who's bought an iPhone 5S would consider it slow.
Other than RAM, maybe, I guess. But I doubt anyone who's bought an iPhone 5S would consider it slow.
Even with a 4.7, that'll be a little tough for people to turn off with one hand. I would definitely drop it.
I didn't see that before, looks like it.
I posted the picture, because of the front panel layout. Those buttons at the bottom are not a thing I want to see on a phone.
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