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iPhone 5 is definitely too small...
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I'm hoping the next revision to the iPhone (hopefully not 2 years away) will have a 4.5" higher res screen with a similar sized body. I feel like that would please the most amount of people, myself included.
Did. Tried a S3 4.8" for two months. Was fun phone, but overall too big, so I traded it for a Razr M 4.3" screen Edge to edge - so the size of the phone is about the same as the iPhone 5. Love it so much more and willing to give up some features of the S3 for the size of the M. I wish I could get a iP5 for a decent price now. Oh I moved from a 4S to the S3.
Nobody prefers having an operating system whereby you have to jump through thousands of hoops just to achieve basic tasks.
Nobody
I'm sorry which operating system are you talking about?
Nobody prefers a fragmented, inferior ecosystem. Nobody.
So why do you care if Apple comes out with a 5" phone anyway?
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6"
Then get yourself an iPod Touch and an Android phone and be done with it.
Or wait forever for something that isn't going to happen.
Yea I mean they are only on pace to sell 50 million iPhone 5 by end of this year. 50 million phones in 3 months? Such an epic fail right? LOL
I think the RAZR-M is very well proportioned. Apple could learn something there. Outside of that, there is nothing about these typical platter android phones that Apple should be eager to emulate.
Most of us have 2 hands so a 5" iPhone is completely feasible, and would get me back on the iPhone bandwagon.
Yes I think Apple made a mistake by sticking with its current size.
The market has shifted and many have chosen to switch rather than to live with the same old same old design.
Most of us have 2 hands so a 5" iPhone is completely feasible, and would get me back on the iPhone bandwagon.
I don't want to have to use both hands every time I operate my phone.
You are SO right.
I had this chat with some orange but also apple store employees lately and all of them agree that iphone 5 is just too small with so weird screen...
Anyway holding Note 2 these last days was just a relief that descent screen is at last available!
I too agree apple should expand a little bit and provide for the other percentage or users that actually want a larger screen phone from apple.
I see the panorama changing quite a bit, still cannot be said that it's a DRASTIC change, but if apple continues the route they've chosen lately, the ball will for certain change sides.
With high mobile internet speeds now (LTE) and faster WIFI connections as well as more and more free hot spots, a lot more users are consuming more and more multimedia, specially streaming videos (youtube, netflix, etc), these type of stuff demands a bigger screen. There will for certain exist a lot of people that want a "normal" size phone but the amount of people that are demanding bigger phones are growing exponentially (look at Samsung's success, and now Google's).
Not too long ago the iPhone was considered a BIG phone (when we made the jump from flip nokia and motorola phones to the smartphones world. Same thing will happen as people get used to bigger screens. Hell I've even seen A LOT of people say that the Galaxy Note 2 is AWESOME and the size is incredible, and that they wouldn't go back to not even a Galaxy S3.
Apple NEEDS to think OUT OF THE BOX again. Samsung is doing it with products such as the Note 2 and the inclusion of the S-Pen (again, A LOT of people bashing this at the beginning and now they love the thing because of how it's been re-engineered)
I for once am switching from a 4S to a Note 2 in the upcoming days, I wanted a Nexus 4 but it's not being sold in my country, still I wouldn't go lower than 4.5 - 4.7 inches anymore (and I own a Nexus 7, so I'm not looking for a PHABLET) I just want a big screen that won't hurt my eyes too much.
P.S.
I'm not even gonna talk about iOS (has become boring and a bit stale. There's just so much you can add to the same OS until it starts acting glitchy) A lot of apps, sure, but Android is catching up incredibly
I see the panorama changing quite a bit, still cannot be said that it's a DRASTIC change, but if apple continues the route they've chosen lately, the ball will for certain change sides.
With high mobile internet speeds now (LTE) and faster WIFI connections as well as more and more free hot spots, a lot more users are consuming more and more multimedia, specially streaming videos (youtube, netflix, etc), these type of stuff demands a bigger screen. There will for certain exist a lot of people that want a "normal" size phone but the amount of people that are demanding bigger phones are growing exponentially (look at Samsung's success, and now Google's).
Not too long ago the iPhone was considered a BIG phone (when we made the jump from flip nokia and motorola phones to the smartphones world. Same thing will happen as people get used to bigger screens. Hell I've even seen A LOT of people say that the Galaxy Note 2 is AWESOME and the size is incredible, and that they wouldn't go back to not even a Galaxy S3.
Apple NEEDS to think OUT OF THE BOX again. Samsung is doing it with products such as the Note 2 and the inclusion of the S-Pen (again, A LOT of people bashing this at the beginning and now they love the thing because of how it's been re-engineered)
I for once am switching from a 4S to a Note 2 in the upcoming days, I wanted a Nexus 4 but it's not being sold in my country, still I wouldn't go lower than 4.5 - 4.7 inches anymore (and I own a Nexus 7, so I'm not looking for a PHABLET) I just want a big screen that won't hurt my eyes too much.
P.S.
I'm not even gonna talk about iOS (has become boring and a bit stale. There's just so much you can add to the same OS until it starts acting glitchy) A lot of apps, sure, but Android is catching up incredibly
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I'm a huge fan of the jump up from 3.5" to 4".
Is 4" still not big enough? It's hard to really say, it's a very subjective topic. I definitely wouldn't mind it if future iPhones continued to get larger screens but I don't think it's as essential as some make it out to be.
I do however think that the iOS UI needs to be revamped to help optimize the relatively smaller screen real estate iPhones have compared to their competitors. The rows and columns of chicklets are way too outdated.
Is 4" still not big enough? It's hard to really say, it's a very subjective topic. I definitely wouldn't mind it if future iPhones continued to get larger screens but I don't think it's as essential as some make it out to be.
I do however think that the iOS UI needs to be revamped to help optimize the relatively smaller screen real estate iPhones have compared to their competitors. The rows and columns of chicklets are way too outdated.