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Two New iPhones With Screens Larger Than 4.5" and 5" Coming This Year
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Not really if they were to copy Samsung, they would release a new phone every other week with a different size and configuration. Then stop supporting the old phones within a year or two. That would be copying.
At least Apple is seeing that the market wants a bigger screen and is responding. Samsung is not the only one with a bigger screen.
iPhab Pro! It's gonna be 12.9" AND a phone too! Then they'll add an iPhab mini at 8" that's a phone too...
Come on Apple, you can win this phone size thing once and for all! They need to float a rumor and demos of a 17" iPhab just to mess with folk.
So there shouldn't be any problem if samsung does it better, right? (ex: osx..maybe making it more improved and smoothed.)
that ad always baffles me, ive never seen anyone hold their phone like that. id get cramps in my hand after 1 minute lol i hold it with both hands and type with both thumbs most of the times but again thats just personal experience and obvs doesnt give much of an insight
i love your sarcasm
it was sarcasm right?"With Tim Cook as CEO, everything is possible."
Cook may have an engineering degree BUT he's a bean counter at heart!
Cook may have an engineering degree BUT he's a bean counter at heart!
Remember the "Brick"
Are we going back to the old days of the cellphone where the phone was the size of a brick? Fortunately, since then cellphones became smaller and smaller until they fit into the palm of you hand and were easy to carry in your shirt or pants pocket.
Now is the trend to revert back to the brick? I can understand that people want larger screens for games or videos but come on! This is a cellphone/smartphone!
Apple could appease this "bigger is better" trend by just adding the Phone app to the Ipad Mini or if really want to "go REAL big" to the IPad Air? Then you wouldn't have any size envy. Repackage and rename?
Are we going back to the old days of the cellphone where the phone was the size of a brick? Fortunately, since then cellphones became smaller and smaller until they fit into the palm of you hand and were easy to carry in your shirt or pants pocket.
Now is the trend to revert back to the brick? I can understand that people want larger screens for games or videos but come on! This is a cellphone/smartphone!
Apple could appease this "bigger is better" trend by just adding the Phone app to the Ipad Mini or if really want to "go REAL big" to the IPad Air? Then you wouldn't have any size envy. Repackage and rename?
I wish my girlfriend thought the same thing
Hahahahahahahaha....
I am looking forward to the larger screens. Bring them on. That is the one thing that I am envious of with the samsung and other phones. I want a larger screen!
Perhaps it's time to consider the possibility that your personal preferences are not only not universal, they aren't even close to being a majority.
iPhone 5 and 5s have outsold their predecessors by a large margin and even larger phones from other manufacturers have sold even better.
Instead of thinking you're the norm, think of yourself as the elite. The downside, of course, is that Apple doesn't make products for the elite. They like making things they can sell in the millions.
So now we'll have a 3.5 inch phone, 4 inch phone, 4.5 inch phone, and 5 inch phone? Developers are gonna have their hands full.
BTW, I'm getting the 4.5 inch one.
BTW, I'm getting the 4.5 inch one.
What I really want to see is how they will take advantage of the new screen area. I hope they just do not make a bigger screen to make the same things in much more space, but to make new things and enhance the user experience. Time (or maybe Tim ) will tell.
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Do you know the batting average of the WSJ reporters involved in this story?
When these reporters used the quote "people familiar with the situation" they were correct in the past.
The WSJ might have been wrong when quoting third-party (Wall Street) analysts, but this is their own, original reporting.
I would like to see links where the WSJ had been wrong after having used that quote for sources in their stories. I don't recall a single indicent.
Bloomberg and WSJ have the best rumor hit rate on original Apple reporting in my experience - after the old "ThinkSecret" website was closed down (old timers may remember) following threats from Apple Legal.
PS: That said, the two larger phones might be variants used for tests and Apple may decide on one size, see my earlier comment.
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Yeah, that still gets me with the MBP. They have in the past dumbed down the 13" model (still no quad core, no discrete graphics) in favor of the 15". I prefer the 13" form factor and even at the same price for the same other specs I would chose it over the 15".
Screen size is copying? Come on. Offering different screen sizes is inevitable.
The reasons why Apple didn't do it sooner is more related to screen quality, battery/power requirements, cost, and processing.
Samsung uses the AMOLED technology which Apple stays away from due to AMOLED doesn't hold it's color very well. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages from Apple's perspective.
Now, there are newer screen technologies that Apple can use which don't require as much power as the older screen technology. Plus then there is a cost issue and Apple needs to keep their profit margins where they are. The problem with the Android market is their margins are awful and they can't survive with low margins. Something we don't have as much insight on.
It's not widely known, but since the introduction of Android smartphones, there have been companies that have either sold off or dropped making Android products completely due to lack of profits/sales.
Here is a site that goes through every company and if you investigate, many companies have actually dropped out of the Android (tablet and/or smartphone) market and they've gone out quietly as to not bring much attention that there really is only one Android mfg that actually makes a profit, but Samsung may have profit erosion this year because they are selling mostly cheap phones.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/manufacturers
I Call BS on this mostly because it's coming out two days before Apple's quarterly earnings call.
I couldn't agree more. I do NOT want a bigger phone!!!!! I mock people with huge phones! If they want to turn the 5C into a phablet, be my guest, but leave the flagship where it it. I know there are 10 million 20 something geeks that are dying for a giant iPhone, but they are not the majority of Apple buyers!
Come on, you and I both know, that people only don't like a larger screen as Apple don't make one.
Let the larger screen come, give it a year or 2 and then ask how many people feel the screen size it wrong