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Mockups of a 4.94-Inch 'iPhone Plus' Show Why a Larger iPhone Might Make Sense

Personally I thought the 4/4s was the perfect size & the 5 is just a little big to cover the entire screen with 1 hand.
 
mr.cook blows. Has no idea what he is doing. This guy just sits there and panic.. man... How did apple let this happen?
 
gogo

i like the idea
im a bigger guy with big fingertips
im in my mid forties, so the eyesight isn't what it used to be
a ppi equal to current would be nice, not required, but closer to retina than 3G/3GS is a much better idea
 
and those of you who think one size fits all.. man, please stop.. It's time apple come out w/ multiple sizes.. or bust
 
iPhone 5 screen size is perfect to me. After seeing the SIII in person, I think it's way too big. The note 2 is just obnoxious!
 
Drag'nGT said:
I seriously want/need an iPhone screen sized up to the Galaxy S. The screen is taller and not wider? After a week of using it I was annoyed that the phone was still so narrow.
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The Galaxy S is wider as it has better proportions for a 4 in phone.
 
smulji said:
What you gain in easy to read, due to decreased pixel density, you lose in reading experience due to decreased clarity & sharpness in text and in the content displayed. So even though a 4.9 inch 264ppi iPhone would be easier to read, the content will not look as nice.

At the end of the day, Apple will do what they do of course, but I prefer they at least remain at 326ppi.
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264ppi is still way better then desktop monitor ppi.

99% of people don't care and don't know of "Pixel Density". 99% of people can't discern the "clarity & sharpness" difference between 264ppi and 326ppi. Anyone however can see the big difference between 4" and 5" screen, the difference in text size and keyboard size.
 
maxosx said:
Obvious you've never seen one up close.

It's gorgeous & it's already in my hands, not just a "maybe we'll build one.

Thanks to Google :)
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I haven't, but from a distance I can tell it's not a very interesting design.

Hartmut Esslinger had some relevant comments when it comes to the design of HTC's phones and how HTC has yet to create its own coherent design language. If you see one of their phones from a slight distance, it doesn't stand out and is not easily recognizable, unlike an iPhone. They can easily be applied to the Nexus 4 and many other Android phones.

"You must recognize a brand without its logo," Esslinger said. "Products by Apple and Porsche can be identified on sight but HTC's phones look like the BlackBerry and all the other imitators. They should take time to develop their own fantastic and simple thing."

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20111026000051&cid=1206
 
I saw someone talking on a Note the other day. It was like they were talking to a pizza box. :D
 
The whole screen size thing

Just like the iPad mini, apple fans know that Mr. Jobs wouldn't want to follow the Samsung screen size, for more than one reason.

I actually don't mind that the iPad mini got released. I can see a slightly different market for it....younger, more mobile, etc.

I also don't think there's anything wrong with a 5" iPhone.

However, along side of this, I think that a lot of Apple fans would feel more comfortable if these releases were matched with more software innovation. Was Siri the last big innovation? iCloud?

I will breathe little sigh of relief if Apple TV comes out, and is cool. Or, if iOS 7 is radically cool. Until then, I think that a lot of people are just a bit worried.
 
I have pretty small hands. I'll be upgrading to iP5 when T-mob is on board and handing down the iP4 to the wife, but there's no way I'd get something bigger than the current phones. Just too big for me. Maybe I'd get used to it, but I really like the sleek, stealthy feel of the iP4 - iP5 size. I'm case-free too.

EDIT: But it does look like it will be happening. And I don't really see a problem with that.
 
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Avatar74 said:
This is why you use a higher dpi screen and intuitive features that make a soft keyboard more useful than a tactile one.... or voice dictation which I also have on my Macbook Retina that displays small text so crisply and clearly I can read it even with my lousy vision, much better than I can read on a lower dpi display. Voice dictation is extremely useful particularly when in situations where I can't type at all (in the car, for example)... where a physical keyboard wouldn't benefit me one bit.

You can implement creative solutions like that, what you can't do is make a person's hand bigger.
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It does not matter what dpi screen on 4" iphone: the keyboard is still the same tiny size. And whatever "intuitive features" you use you still have to use them on this tiny keyboard. Voice dictation is not reliable and not practical most of the time: you need noise free environment and privacy: imagine people will start talk to themselves on the train, bus, or in office cubicles.

I don't want to "implement creative solutions" on my iphone. I just want to type comfortably on my iphone.
 
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Amusingly, this is pretty much what happened the last time Apple found itself with Steve Jobs' leadership:

They complicated their product line and kept incrementally improving things instead of having blockbuster announcements and improvements.
 
Number 41 said:
Amusingly, this is pretty much what happened the last time Apple found itself with Steve Jobs' leadership:

They complicated their product line and kept incrementally improving things instead of having blockbuster announcements and improvements.
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You probably meant to type "without Steve Jobs' leadership" right?

Regardless Jobs was very much for complicating the product line, he just did it more gracefully. Case in point: iPod and MacBook. iPhone, even with a larger display, will still be simpler than the iPod line up
 
saturn88 said:
It does not matter what dpi screen on 4" iphone: the keyboard is still the same tiny size. And whatever "intuitive features" you use you still have to use them on this tiny keyboard. Voice dictation is not reliable and not practical most of the time: you need noise free environment and privacy: imagine would people start talk to themselves on the train, bus, or in office cubicles.

I don't want to "implement creative solutions" on my iphone. I just want to type comfortably on my iphone.
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I disagree. I think that "intuitive solutions" are precisely what would benefit the user in various situations. It's not the user I'm saying that has to "implement" creative solutions himself. It's the engineers that designed a device that I'm speaking of. The solution itself should be transparent to the end-user.

The keyboard was just one of many innovations along the way to trying to figure out a better form of input for the computer.

It was based on a typewriter, which is not necessarily the best form factor for a mobile device.

For example, right now I'm using voice dictation to dictate this reply. I have not made any corrections by hand. And I'm doing this in a noisy environment, my office.
 
jessica. said:
Oh FFS, no. I'd like a phone I can pocket ... it is getting absurd.
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Are you implying that 1 additional inch of screen real estate would suddenly make the iPhone unable to fit in a pocket?

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phillipduran said:
I saw someone talking on a Note the other day. It was like they were talking to a pizza box. :D
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I saw someone talking on an iPhone the other day. It was like they were talking to a box of tic-tacs. :D
 
saturn88 said:
I don't want to "implement creative solutions" on my iphone. I just want to type comfortably on my iphone.
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But for sake of argument I'm typing this reply using their keyboard in landscape mode. The autocorrection combined with reasonable typing skills don't slow me down much. So I fail to see what the argument is. At this viewing distance with this clarity I can read and reply comfortably in silence (300ppi is the threshold of perception; I didn't get that from an Apple commercial. It's what a graphic artist would tell you.).

I'm not arguing that some people wouldn't like a wider screen. I'm saying that Apples research found that the width chosen, which they kept for the iPhone 5, was optimal. "Optimal" doesn't mean the best solution for every individual but the most suitable solution that serves all individuals.
 

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So what many people here are saying is that Apple is unwilling or incapable of having more than one size phone? (the 3 and 4 will fall by the wayside in a couple years, to we'll be left with just the 5)

That's very short-sighted for a company that just lost 50 billion in stock.

I don't understand the iFan's resistance to offering people a choice. What's wrong with also offering a larger phone for that huge segment of the market Apple has yet to tap?

It's not like anyone is going to take away your 2" wide iPhone for crying out loud.

This line of thought is about as ridiculous as me demanding that you use a 5" phone simple because that's what I prefer.
 
At the risk of using the vastly over-used "Steve would have never" phraseology, I will mention that one of the things Steve did when he came back to Apple was cut way, way down on the product catalog.

I suppose we're now entering an era where each product category now has a "heavy" and "light" or "large" and "small" variant in it. iPod touch or nano, Macbook pro or air, iMac or mac mini. So now... iPhone big or small?
 
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