Galaxy Note?
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Hit the nail on the head. Exactly what i was thinking.
However, a little deviation would not be so bad. Apple's motto is "Think Different" after all. Just not "Think Android"
If anything, a nicely executed increase in screen real estate with about half the bezels compared to the current ones on the top and bottom will not hurt so much as long as the phone it self doesn't grow very wide or tall.
Well and as for size, as long as its not much bigger. I mean, we went years in the direction of smaller smaller smaller.....to too small.
Then, Apple released the iPhone and then we go bigger bigger bigger to the point we're carrying around a damn tablet now on our hips.
To me and Ive heard many say that Apple intended it this way, but the size of the iPhone isnt because they cant make a bigger screen, its because of the ergonomics. In the average hand, its too hard to operate a SGS2, and so is the Nexus and some of the others. The Razor feels horrible in the hand and nearly impossible to use in one hand.
The iPhone has a nice balance between screen size for usability and ease of use in one hand. The thumb can reach across the screen and not strain and feel like you are gonna drop it. Its that way for a reason.
Also, the battery life keeps getting worse because of idiots in marketing. They find a consumer spec and run wide open with it for the hills....."Look at us, we make the biggest screen of all" and that's their selling point.
Like camera makers and their pixel sales pitch.
I'm a professional photographer btw and this bothers me. We've dealt with this for the last 5 yrs of each major brand trying to one up the next in megapixels. Who cares. Give me better pixels. Thats what matters. The size and quality of the pixels, not count.
Instead, manufacturers like phone makers for Android and camera makers make these technological break throughs in pixel quality or battery management , only to negate the battery gains or image quality gains to be rewarded by adding more pixels or by adding a bigger screen.
So where by now, we should be able to get insane low light image quality we get ok quality because they keep adding pixels.
Where we should be able to get 2 days on a battery charge due to new screen efficiency, software and better battery technology, we get the same or worse usage time because they keep making bigger and bigger screens to chew it up.......or in some cases more and more crappy widgets etc.
We don't need screens this big. And if any of you guys think you need a phone screen that big, GO BUY A TABLET.
I have a Laptop, and a desktop with a 24" screen. My phone is a great add one cause in a pinch, it gives me lots of the same ability on the move.
The screens are fine, we're losing the convenience of these devices because we're becoming tethered to wall chargers due to all this stuff.
Disclaimer.......I'm perfectly content with my iPhone 4s battery life.
I can do whatever I want on it all day and still have 25-40% battery when I get home. And this doesn't show how much image viewing, and video recording done, there's been games played. Ive done quite a bit of iTunes syncing today as well.
I DO NOT WANT AN ANDROID. I want to see Apple keep Phone same size, if anything just a tad bigger, and I mean maybe 1/4" bigger. Its a good size.
Id like to see them concentrate on world class battery life. If they put all efforts towards this, I bet they could give us a 3day battery with else being equal. Then, when on LTE the battery wont be gone in 4hrs like all my 4G Droid brethren
And maybe a couple tweaks to make the existing iOS better where they see fit. But NOT to look like Android. I can buy any of those at any time.
