Now they have said that the screen size is the same as the original iPhone. However if you look at the gallery pics of the new one on the Apple website, the borders at the side of the screen look decidedly larger than on my current iPhone.
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Is the screen size different?
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3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
Straight from the Tech Specs page on Apple.com
There is no way that you could make a truthful comparison of those two images. They are the same.
They wouldn't put the wrong specs on there. And Steve wouldn't have said "Same great 3.5 inch screen"
The difference in images may come from the fact that the form factor of it is different. More tapered on the back. If you have an iPhone now, look at how the back panel starts to curve back around to the front before the chrome bezel. If you look at the side images from the page you linked to on the 3G. The back goes straight up to the chrome and doesn't curve before it. That would make up for the approximately 2mm of extra space you are noticing on the front.
The difference in images may come from the fact that the form factor of it is different. More tapered on the back. If you have an iPhone now, look at how the back panel starts to curve back around to the front before the chrome bezel. If you look at the side images from the page you linked to on the 3G. The back goes straight up to the chrome and doesn't curve before it. That would make up for the approximately 2mm of extra space you are noticing on the front.
The chrome border looks a lot thinner, the actual screen size is exactly the same as the previous phone.