Most people have two hands, admittedly for those amputees who have been in an accident and have only one hand it can be slightly more difficult.
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Mass Production of 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Set for July, 5.5-Inch Version Beginning in September
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Most people have two hands, admittedly for those amputees who have been in an accident and have only one hand it can be slightly more difficult.
Good question... but I just thought of something.
You know how the iPhone 5S has those glass panels on the back to allow the antennas to work?
Well... the entire front of the iPhone is made of glass. Maybe they could put antennas towards the front of the phone on either side of the earpiece and home button.
Just a thought.
Don't understand what your saying.
Double tap is "specifically" useful for newspaper and other column type layouts. That's it's main use.
Not necessarily iPhone folks, but larger screens are what people want and Apple knows it.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1723508/
Dynamic layout of gui-elements to fit the screen is one thing and something I assume (hope..) the average developer by now understands and applies.
More challenging is making optimum use of a given space by creating the perfect user-experiance for any given device. That's a design tasks which ideally is done for every screen size and resolution. A 'one-design-fits-all' approach typically creates poor user experiences on all supported devices. At the moment iOS comes in three 'layout' flavors, I'm wondering if the iPhone 6 will adopt one of the existing flavors or adds a new one? If so, for a serious developer it requires an additional design task and adds development/test overhead to deal with the different screen real-estate and user experience.
ya but if they got rid of the bezel, increase the width slightly, you could easily fit a 4.7" screen. It won't be that big I bet and you could still use one hand. The 5.5" or 5.7" screens whichever it is is probably the iphone 6c models with last gen processing and technology.
NO! iPhones not being able to surf and talk simultaneously is a CDMA issue (Verizon and Sprint use this for their network) . If you want an iPhone that can do that, I suggest you get yourself on board with AT&T which use GSM (aka SIM card).
I hate to invoke the specter of Jobs while shaking my fists at the sky... but Apple made its reputation by focusing on giving people things they didn't know they NEED, vs. what they say they WANT.
Back in the day, people said they wanted Windows on a Mac, and eventually "hell froze over"... but really how'd that turn out? Did it just tick a box or somehow move the needle? Seems like capitulation that dumped a lot of cash down a hole...
Compare the price of an iPhone and an iPad. The iPad is massively larger but still cheaper.
This is me as well. I didn’t mind the small size of the iPhone 5s but the limitations iOS made me switch back to Android. Having a nice high quality phone was a good change but it only lasted a few weeks before I traded it for a Note 3. I hope Apple does more with iOS to try to at least catch up to Android but I doubt it.
I have a feeling that people that had Android for years making the change to a larger iPhone will be disappointed in the iOS.
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I'd rather see the larger one first just because I'm more interested in that
People will buy what is available not necessarily what they want.
If the good one came out first then a slightly poorer version later, who would buy the poor one?
But can it kick Sony Xperia Z1 (/Compact)'s 20-megapixeled, 2.1GHz quad-cored, glass and aluminum-enclosed, waterproof ass?
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You obviously haven't read the front page much.
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/06/consumers-want-larger-iphones/
What are you going to do in 10 years when technology keeps evolving? Earn to adapt. I welcome a larger screen and I have small hands. I've had ever single iPhone besides the first gen.
People complain way too much. Growing up with no phones and having a pager I'm
Retry happy where technology is right now. 5.5 is big but that's because we aren't used to it. It's nowhere as big as a mini.
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/06/consumers-want-larger-iphones/
What are you going to do in 10 years when technology keeps evolving? Earn to adapt. I welcome a larger screen and I have small hands. I've had ever single iPhone besides the first gen.
People complain way too much. Growing up with no phones and having a pager I'm
Retry happy where technology is right now. 5.5 is big but that's because we aren't used to it. It's nowhere as big as a mini.
Meanwhile, Sammy execs are crying themselves to sleep tonight. 2 larger -screened iPhones will cut Sammy's premium smartphone sales by at least 30%
Shame you're wrong about the people not wanting larger iPhones, Apple THEMSELVES did a case study that found people wanted cheaper and larger phones. I shall attach a link below and will give you two hours to apologise to that other gentleman for being an opinionated and incorrect lout.
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/06/consumers-want-larger-iphones/
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How dare Apple even THINK about making a larger phone when I dont want a larger phone!!
And now the thought of TWO larger sizes infuriates me!
I love this ^ Sums up what most of the tiny screen lovers feel when there's a possibility of a larger phone, I have an HTC one and an iPhone 3gs and family members have a 4, 5, 5s and the HTC one's screen size makes reading articles, writing texts and watching videos so much nicer.
iPhone 6 better have at least 2GB ram and quad-core. Seriously Apple, you skimped out on the 5S. Don't do this to me again or I'll have to wait another year.
What exactly are you not able to do that the extra gig will allow?
Multitask as well as should be possible, have multiple tabs open on the internet without having to load them every time I change a tab, not have to wait 60 seconds every time I switch to a game after replying to a text, etc etc
Thank you! She inherits my old phones. I see nothing wrong with that.
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Using a standard Apple case. Not a scratch on it.
It was purely out of interest as I haven't used iOS for about 4yrs so wasn't even sure if that was possible. I guess I've got used to Android's slightly more open way of doing things.
Sorry, when I read things like this it isn't a knock on the poster who says it, but rather just the mindset. In the additional context you provided, I can fully appreciate now your point of view, which is different from the normal circumstances that this type of mindset comes from.
For example, I know plenty of Apple and iPhone users. When something doesn't work, or the phone crashes, or a feature isn't there, they blame themselves, or a third party app for the problem. Because it COULDN'T be the phone itself, right? "Oh, my device rebooted - must have been that app I was using that caused it."
Now, those same Apple users, when a similar device reboot would happen with an Android device, are quickly to point out how terrible and unstable the OS is which obviously caused the crash. "Device reboot? Must be all that malware!"
It's a hypocritical way of thinking. Same result, two devices, root cause for one not the OS, the root cause for the other device, must be the OS.
All that being said, yes, downloading another camera app with a timer certainly would make sense