Those are not real phones. (except for the 5s obviously).
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Because resolution is the only important thing for a display
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Those are not real phones. (except for the 5s obviously).
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Because resolution is the only important thing for a display
Or not. I've used every OEM's phone of this size range and don't have any trouble carrying them around. Either do other people.
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Once again. False. When I use the 4" iPhone to read pdf's for schematics that I have to do, it's more painful to use than the Note 3 that I'm currently using. So much easier to read and use (and write on for that matter) than the iPhone 5S I have.
It'll be increasing less than if they made the aspect ratio less than 16:9. Personally, I'm not buying any new iPhones, especially not the big ones.
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Actually, I didn't bother doing the math. Now I checked, and the new screen sizes are nearly 16:9, so it's not an issue. It's not just about making things work. You're sometimes more limited in what you can do when you have to support both 3.5" and 4".
By the way, it's not that I couldn't figure it out. I only found the problem after it was released (since I had no 3.5" iPhone for testing) and didn't want to release an immediate update to fix the useless info page on 3.5" devices.
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In my opinion, neither will be the flagship, they will coexist as one iPhone 6 with 2 different screen options. The screen size will just be something you choose like the storage space. Think about the 21.5" and 27" iMac.
Yes, I was being tongue in cheek.
But Journalism isn't a licensed profession like CPA, lawyer, Dr., cosmetologist,etc. A formal education isn't required to sit for an exam & earn a license to practice, but sticking to facts and remaining objective is. (Or at least traditionally). A blogger can be a journalist if all he or she does is report all the facts available & properly sourced rather than pontificate their opinion. But most bloggers do just mask their opinion as fact. That's the problem. Unfortunately too many traditional journalist do too.
He's a useful idiot. He frequents a rumor site but when someone else actually provides a detailed breakdown of their opinion - they need to shut up.
Just like this guy - because you come across so many detailed posts here on MR with examples and analysis to back up their assumptions.
Except that is never true in real life...it is mentally and conceptually impossible to create a human being that doesn't have a bias. The very nature of journalism, reporting, is a bias. It's not a bad thing, its liberating.
God forbid you frequent a site that more often than not regurgitates things they know nothing about.
But that's exactly what Apple already did with the iPad mini.
We're only talking a slight increase in pixel density here. Much less, in fact, than the difference between the iPad and iPad mini.
Besides, legacy apps will presumably just be scaled up anyway - so their touch targets will be bigger than on the 5s.
Modern apps can use autolayout, dynamic type, etc to present the appropriate sizes of text and controls for each display.
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hah I know you were kidding but some other macrumor readers may believe he's a journalist.
he's an apple fanboy drunk on koolaid.
I can detect your sarcasm but tell me what is aesthetically pleasing about a protruding camera lens? Surely Jony Ivy isn't willing to sacrifice aesthetics for thinness. When's the last time you heard someone say "If only the iPhone was thinner."? Troll if you must, but I know I'm not the only one here that feels this way.
It has not made sense because you refuse to understand! A 5.5" iPhone will have a screen almost 100% bigger not 1.5".
Thats like saying I don't know why someone would buy a 16" pizza for 14$ when an 8" pizza are 10$ for two. They are so dumb and I can't see why they are paying 4$ more for no reason.
The answer is simple grade school geometry, for $4 more you get twice the amount of pizza.
For an extra 1.5" you get an 88% bigger screen!
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As both a developer and an iPhone user, I hope you're right about this. I'd be perfectly happy with it, I really don't think a phone needs ~2K resolution. Doing so has consequences for either performance or battery life which just aren't worth it IMO. In a year or two when supporting these resolutions has minimal negative impact, sure, bump it up, but for now 1472x828 would still look great and works for both new sizes.
No, read again my post. You can't expect to use comfortably current iOS apps with a sensibly higher pixel density than the current 326 ppi. You quote only one line.
It worked with the 9.7" -> 7.9" transition on iPads only because Apple exactly chose 163/326 ppi for the mini (coming from 132/264 ppi).
10% higher pixel density mean everything will display 10% smaller and touch target will all be 10% smaller. That doesn't sound like a good plan.
You can't compare with the two iPads situation: every apps were already written wrt to HIG for a 163/326 ppi screen but used until the mini only on 132/264 ppi devices.
And here you're going with a larger screen, not a smaller one.
Too complicated.
You'd have now with new pixel densities (you had 326, and you now introduce new ones on the 4.7" and 5.5") to redefine the HIG and minimal touch target, etc. Having to take the new 360 ppi as new reference, you'd have not 44 px but 48 px as touch minimal target, would design text and bitmaps accordingly to the new pixel density, etc. And then, it all would look like ass on the 4" with everything getting bigger and would lose crucial space for data on the smaller size (people will still use and buy 4" iPhone next year. They'll even still be the majority of the iPhone installed base).
You'd lose reusability of old resources although you stay at 2x, that's not really a great idea.
It's always far simpler to support a slight zoom in (and do nothing) than a zoom out. Here, all signs point to a 4.7" iPhone with similar or equal pixel density as now.
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It has advantages, as the 5.5" iPhone probably will, but isn't marketed as the leading iMac with the 21.5" being a cheaper alternative.
Bias is relative to where you are. Even neutral news which is straight in center of the political sphere would seem left wing to an extreme right winger. So, saying the writer is biased is a skewed assessment anyway.
Traditional journalism tries to stick to what is known and nothing else. But, reality itself has its own bias... It doesn't always agree with what we think it it is producing a uncomfortable cognitive dissonance.
And then, there is the selection of what of that reality should be covered, how long should it covered, what titles, etc. The editor in framing that info produces a certain bias that comes from what view we have of this reality.
Even if the news itself is perfectly neutral, its selection may present a bias; the journalists will show the public what sells : dramatic, polarizing events tend to sell more.
IF say you were reporting a on spate of violent white suprematist attacks; those that are pro gun and anti immigration will see that as biased. Often they would then point to some other crime, or subject that should warrant more attention, that they are "unfairly" targetted.
A journal like the New-York Times is a lot more neutral than Fox, but they still have to sell to their public. So, they tend to be much more progressive in what they choose to report.
How many of those got large Android phones because the smaller ones are basic models with much less power? Sony have started to buck the trend, but even that model didn't come out until the larger version was nearing replacement.
it's not another 1-1.5" which makes it sound like a small increase. as a percentage, it's a huge increase in surface area. the problem is that text is borderline too small on a 4" screen and fingers are too big for tapping. not every website in the world has its own iPhone app that makes it perfect
5.5" is the master race, it's better you small handed weaklings come to grips with this then be disappointed later
I want to hold both phones in my hand before purchasing.
I found my last (Android 5 inch) phone fatiguing to hold in hand, gave me a hand cramp when attempting to type one-handed. I'm a 6'2" male.
HIGHLY doubt Apple is going to pitch the 5.5 as the standard-bearer iPhone unless they make it easily used by 70%+ of the population. Holding back technology in the 4.7 device, making it "the new 5c" is a terrible mistake.
All that said, the sales of these phones is going to be astronomical and Apple will soon realize how stupidly they stuck to the TINY screens for far too long. All the grumbling and moaners on this forum - if you don't like the larger screens, go buy a flip phone and continue to live in the past.
I found my last (Android 5 inch) phone fatiguing to hold in hand, gave me a hand cramp when attempting to type one-handed. I'm a 6'2" male.
HIGHLY doubt Apple is going to pitch the 5.5 as the standard-bearer iPhone unless they make it easily used by 70%+ of the population. Holding back technology in the 4.7 device, making it "the new 5c" is a terrible mistake.
All that said, the sales of these phones is going to be astronomical and Apple will soon realize how stupidly they stuck to the TINY screens for far too long. All the grumbling and moaners on this forum - if you don't like the larger screens, go buy a flip phone and continue to live in the past.
We don't code in screen resolutions on iOS, but aspect ratios. I.e the iPad is 1024x768 in screen co-ordinates. 4 inch displays are 320x568 and the rest 320x480. As long Apple don't change aspect ratios, the apps will work fine, the only thing to be done is add higher resolution images for a more crisp look.
You are probably closer to the correct specs then the analyst who wrote the original post. all you need to do is look at the Galaxy lineup. The S and the Note are essentially the same phone with the same resolution yet the S models always have a higher PPI than the Note despite having the smaller display. 441 for the S5 vs 386 in the Note 3.
I think you're overestimating the difference that a 10% change in pixel density makes. A control thats 10mm in size now becomes 9mm. (that's assuming the app is updated to support the higher resolution but without making the controls dynamically sized).
But even so, 10% is really not a big deal. It's much smaller than the ~20% difference in ppi between the iPad models. The only time it will ever be an issue is where apps were badly designed in the first place with controls with touch areas that are too small.
Actually, from a developer perspective, having two new screen resolutions to support would be more complicated.
Two pixel densities, at least for the vast majority of apps, is really not a big deal. I suspect Apple added Dynamic Type in iOS 7 (and improved it in iOS 8) for exactly this reason.
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Not really. Legacy apps will scale up, sure. But Apple will encourage apps to support the new resolution natively.
That means making sure that your app can dynamically size itself correctly to handle a range of resolutions, not just adding new images.
There's a reason they added the "Resizable iPhone" device in the Xcode 6 simulator.