They can easily add 0.3" just by shrinking the wasted space above and below the screen and making it a little wider like the 3G/3GS, but I'd hope they actually eliminate the wasted space because it doesn't look like it in the photo.
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Sketchy Report Claims iPhone 5S Delayed Until Late 2013 Over Switch to 4.3-Inch Display
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Bigger screen is nice for content consumption. But mt iPhone lives with me. It's gotta fit in my pocket in whatever clothes Im wearing. If I wanted something lots bigger, I'd get an iPad mini. But that would be too large to take everywhere.
I agree that a larger screen would make watching videos and looking at web pages, and just about anything you do while looking at your screen that much better. But for the times I'm not looking at my screen, it needs to be as small and thin as possible.
I personally wouldn't want it much bigger than the iPhone 5 form factor.
I agree that a larger screen would make watching videos and looking at web pages, and just about anything you do while looking at your screen that much better. But for the times I'm not looking at my screen, it needs to be as small and thin as possible.
I personally wouldn't want it much bigger than the iPhone 5 form factor.
A stupid rumour for this year at least
This is a bonkers rumour, the iPhone 5S will keep its present shape/size and have a few tweaks internally - the iPone 6 is a contender for a larger screen and Apple may reduce its launch cycles from every 12 months to 9 months to keep pace with the competition - as such, we cannot expect a 4.3in screen until late second quarter 2014.
Further, think of the damage such a move would do to the ecosystem that the iPhone 5 inhabits, think cases and covers - one reason for investing in Apple products is they are well serviced by third-party producers, all of whom desire payback.
A larger screen would be welcome though, particularly from older git's like myself with failing eyesight - indeed, about the smallest form factor I can now cope with is a Nexus 7 or iPad Mini - an iPhone is just too small for me to use apart from an actual phone, in which case I'll stick with my old chocolate bar Sony Ericsson circa 2003 - still working I add!!!!!!!
This is a bonkers rumour, the iPhone 5S will keep its present shape/size and have a few tweaks internally - the iPone 6 is a contender for a larger screen and Apple may reduce its launch cycles from every 12 months to 9 months to keep pace with the competition - as such, we cannot expect a 4.3in screen until late second quarter 2014.
Further, think of the damage such a move would do to the ecosystem that the iPhone 5 inhabits, think cases and covers - one reason for investing in Apple products is they are well serviced by third-party producers, all of whom desire payback.
A larger screen would be welcome though, particularly from older git's like myself with failing eyesight - indeed, about the smallest form factor I can now cope with is a Nexus 7 or iPad Mini - an iPhone is just too small for me to use apart from an actual phone, in which case I'll stick with my old chocolate bar Sony Ericsson circa 2003 - still working I add!!!!!!!
Hahahahaha gotta love this site, 'it is highly unlikely to be true'. Yeah because a finger print scanner is sooooo much more true, or anything else they say on this site, is so much more true or fact. Just like the vaporware Apple TV set which no doubt generates a fair few hits.
Actually, this is exactly what I personally bet that they do [next year]. It's what would make the most sense to appease customers who we must conclude love the phoblets pioneered by Android device manufacturers.
Except that you're wrong about the retina part, because I am betting they correlate an increased screen size with their announcement of Super Retina, the phone equivalent of 4K TVs. They could make a larger screen, say 4.3" or even 5", keep an effective resolution 568x320 like the iPhone 5, but double the density again for a literal resolution of 2272x1280.
Devs win because the only coding change necessary is higher res art assets. Customers get a ginormous screen that retains crisp pixels. And marketers can finally claim Full HD 1080p.
That's not very different from the retina iPad, and on a screen possibly not much smaller than an iPad Mini. By the time they have the technology to make retina iPad Minis, they can probably make this too.
But the connectors are the same.
I call this rumor wishful thinking for some.
On a side note, 9to5mac had some pictures of back plates which looked like 5S has some different pattern inside the back plate. Possibly NFC. Not sure why macrumors is slow on that rumor but that is more likely than a bigger screen IMO.
Given that "Retina Screen" has no real definition, Apple could still call the screen a Retina Screen, even with a somewhat lower pixel density.
But given that the other top tier phones have 1080 screens, it would be a mistake.
Anybody do the math to see what sort of pixel density a 4.3 inch, 1080 screen would have?
Jobs imagined a world where people could afford both phones and tablets. A world where he could sell both a phone and a tablet to every person. And in this world, everyone had the optimum device for the task, and thus were the most happy.
But in the real world, people will settle for a suboptimal phone experience and a suboptimal tablet experience in order to spend less money and keep up with less devices.
Try the Galaxy S4. The HTC One would also be a good choice. And Motorola is coming out with a new flagship which might be wotrh considering.
Not so. If this was true. They don't have to increase the number of pixels in any way because likely the display would stay at 16:9. So 640x1136 still works.
The decrease in density wouldn't really matter because its such a small drop, it would only go down to 303 PPI.
But also if this was true maybe the rumor of Apple doubling the resolution on the iPhone could also go along with it.
Far from it, Tiger. It's the tick-tock cycle. Intel do it; new gen one year, upgrade that gen the next, and then go to a new gen the following year.
And Apple have been doing it with the iPhone since its inception.
- Original iPhone
- iPhone 3G (Added 3G, new look)
- 3GS - Updated internals
- iPhone 4 (new look)
- 4S - updated internals
- 5 (new look)
- 5S - updated internals
The only exception to this rule is the original iPhone & the iPhone 3G; IMO that's mainly because the step between the two was so huge, and I think they learnt so much in the first year of production & design that they knew they could make it considerably thinner, lighter and better designed with the 3G.
So it's not something new, it's Apple's phone cycle.
I may be in the minority, but I am so tired of reading iPhone rumor articles every day. Don't misunderstand, I like my iPhone and iPad, but I miss the days when MacRumors posted on Mac's. Currently, iPhone's, iPad's, and iOS are the main "rumors" focus (a new camera cable? that's amazing!). It's trifling.
/end rant. Carry on
The idea is that we're getting ever closer to a new iPhone release, and these rumors tend to be a little more rampant around new iPhone releases. The new Mac Pro is coming, I'm sure we'll be flooded with those stories soon enough!
I wouldn't be surprised if someone spotted a 4.3" iPhone 6 test unit (for Fall 2014) in some kind of small production and this rumor stemmed from that.
I haven't taken direct measurements, but I wonder if all this talk of "bezeless" ipads could eventually make its way into the iphone. As in, if you take the current iPhone 5 chassis and extended the screen to the very side edge, would it be 4.3"?
I haven't taken direct measurements, but I wonder if all this talk of "bezeless" ipads could eventually make its way into the iphone. As in, if you take the current iPhone 5 chassis and extended the screen to the very side edge, would it be 4.3"?
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Not true. The iPhone 5 wasn't just a "new look." It also has updated internals over the 4S. Whereas the 4 was, like you said, only a new look; it retained the same internals as the 3GS.
Because...?
Or you don't have any palpable reason rather than being another irrational Apple hater/doom and gloomer.
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