IPhone feels weird after using iPad 2

[ravenas]

Your comment reminds me of the debates I have with a friend of mine who's a frequent iPhone 3GS user (looking forward to his iPhone 5 upgrade this summer). He doesn't have an iPad or any tablet but uses his iPhone regularly. I cannot fathom all the stuff he does with it.

After lugging around my iPad1 for a couple weeks I felt the weight of the device and wanted something much lighter and pocketable. The new iPod Touch 4g's came out then, so I picked one up. (Tricked it out with Skype Out, Google Voice and a MiFi to make it a pseudo-iPhone without the big contract.)

Going between the two screens I do feel the shock. I find the Touch near impossible to use for web surfing. All that pinching, zooming and scrolling around the screen. As a music player it excels. Much easier to use as a video camera. Videos are adequate. Games are so-so. (Angry Birds is so much easier to play on the iPad.) eBook reading is something to do in a pinch. Typing on that tiny keyboard is a pain. (Android's "swype" is much easier to use.) Specialized tool apps like calculator, timers, network speed, etc. are good as long as you don't have to do a lot of reading.

My buddy can't figure out why he'd use tablet. I can't figure out why he'd be satisfied with the tiny iPhone screen.

My SIL's Droid screen is just so much larger. (Makes you crave Android.) But on the whole tablets are a better reading/gaming device due to all the screen real estate.

I don't think you quite grasp the difference until you have both tools to use regularly.

 

[Mechinyun]

YEP

Iphone feels so jammed up and small now, but still super crisp which still wows me.

 

[qoo77]

My iPhone 4 feels like an iPad mini after using an iPad 2 lying in bed!

 

[Skika]

My iPhone 4 feels like an iPad mini after using an iPad 2 lying in bed!

+1

I got the exact same feeling. When i only had the iPhone, it was a big screened phone ( compared to normal phones ), now it feels like a tiny iPad.

 

[MasterHowl]

The iPad 2 is my first iPad, and been playing around with it for the last couple of hours.

Went to use my i4 and it just feels wierd...

Is it just me or anybody else get this sensation...

I agree. After using my iPad 2 for a week, I went to use my iPod Touch and it just felt... wrong

:|

 

[Synapple]

I must be weird.. it has the opposite effect on me.

When I'm on my iPad I feel like it's a big iPhone and everything looks too roomy, keybord feels too spread out and I like how compact everything is on my iPhone.
Obviously, surfing feels waaaay better on the iPad, no comparison.
All in all, since I spend much more time on the iPhone than on the iPad, I guess I'm just used to the smaller scale

Anyways, love both, can't complain.

 

[gtmac]

i agree the iphone 4 feels tiny now compared to the ipad 2, however, i also noticed how crisp the iphone is compared to the ipad 2.

its really noticable

Exactly!

 

[abriwin]

Iphone 4 or iPad 2

I think this thread might have inadvertently decided me on which would be more useful and I come to the conclusion that I keep my little Sony Ericcson flip phone as a phone and get the iPad 2.

 

[ChristianVirtual]

i agree the iphone 4 feels tiny now compared to the ipad 2, however, i also noticed how crisp the iphone is compared to the ipad 2.

Agree, that made me dream of a retina screen for iPad; at least higher DPI as today.
Many times I don't feel comfortable with font rendering, have some news apps where it just looks unsharp.

 

[BadaBing!!]

Same here

 

[ninerfan]

Funny, just ran across this thread while listening to music on my iPhone 3GS. I don't keep any music on my iPad, so this is just about all I ever use the phone for anymore, except calls of course.

I am addicted to my iPad2. I love everything about it, but have to say that even the 3GS screen looks much more vibrant than the iPad 2 does. I can't even imagine a next gen iPad 3 or 4 with the retina display.

 

[spiderman0616]

when I go from my iPad 2 to my iPhone 4, the iPhone feels thicker and clunkier than the iPad 2. You would think it would be the opposite, but it's not.

I really don't like the Playbook, but I think Apple should take a hint from their approach to the sync option--if there was functionality for my iPhone to push texts to my iPad, I would use it only for the phone part. I would replace everything else with my iPad 2.

 

[Pittbull76]

Yep. I got the iPad 2 a few days ago because I fell in love with my iPhone 4. After going back to the phone to google something it seemed like I was holding a toy. Everything was miniature and just felt weird! The love affair with the phone has ended but I still call on her when I need a good picture taken

 

[HappyDude20]

I've had my new ipad for 5 days. Today was the first time I pulled out my 2g ipod touch, and it felt almost unusable for anything other than music.

Though I agree with you on the iPad replacing your 2G Touch for day-to-day uses, I too have a 2G Touch and simply believe it's a dead slow toy now.

Music on the 2G Touch takes 3-6 seconds to open up. It's a nightmare.

I'm at the point of wondering if I should either purchase an iPhone 5 or iPod Touch 5th Gen, to replace my current 2G Touch...and keep living w/ a basic Verizon Phone.. Decisions, decisions.

 

[cwerdna]

Everything on the iPhone seems so small now!

+5

I thought the iPhone 4 felt very slow after using the iPad 2. The iPhone 4 screen got to amaze me again though.

Yeah, my iPad 2 feels so much faster than my iPhone 4 (which was already a huge step up for me from my former 3G).

Yeah, the low dpi screen on the iPad 2 is a bit of a letdown, in comparison. iPhone 4 screen is still amazing.

You look at the grid of icons and think, there is so little space between each one!

Before, I used to think the amount of spacing between icons on the iPad was comically large. I still think it's large but on the iPhone, it's the icons seems huge and the spacing tiny. Weird...