I like the 4", just big enough to see and small enough to use and conveniently store in my pocket. I just don't get the phablet trend beyond niche yet.
I hate the phablet sizes too, but some would like 8 inch.
You're forgetting about the home button. Until the home button goes away the top and bottom bezels are always going to be as wide as necessary to accommodate it. And Apple will never go with asymmetrical bezels.
Actually there in iPhone 5, it could see a little bit less room below home button and a little less above, below camera, of course this will only allow maybe a 4.2 inch screen in same form factor, but will make a 4.5 inch less significant.
I did a little Photoshop work on it to take out the distortion and then resized it to 100% based on the measurements of a iPhone 5 and it appears to be 4.7" screen.
Almost every other smartphone on the market looks just as large when it is beside the iPhone. Of course, it's gonna look ginormous, because it is. It looks great, about time, and Apple will sell these as fast as they can make them. If current iPhone owners don't like the size, what will you do, go buy an S5 that's even more "ginormous?" How many other companies make a flagship smartphone under 4.7"? None.
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I don't get that. I don't understand why a designer would waste so much panel space at the top. What's the supposed payoff?
The 'payoff' probably is due to all the electronics that are in that spot:
Everyone looks at the front and thinks there's space for a larger display without taking the innards into account.
The 'payoff' probably is due to all the electronics that are in that spot:
Everyone looks at the front and thinks there's space for a larger display without taking the innards into account.
Some components obviously already reside behind the display, so the stuff at the top could, too. It's a design choice -- it could just as easily house a larger screen in the same height and width by making it slightly thicker and losing the "end zones" at the top and bottom.
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Actually there in iPhone 5, it could see a little bit less room below home button and a little less above, below camera, of course this will only allow maybe a 4.2 inch screen in same form factor, but will make a 4.5 inch less significant.
Looks like a copy of iPhone 5s, only bigger.
4.7" is good size; I love my 4.5" Lumia 920.
Bit it also appear that form factor has changed a bit? 16:10, sort of..?
Stop buying phones. Why would someone be dumb enough to buy something they don’t want?
Apple. For a reason.
The size difference of the fingers tells the truth.....
The 'payoff' probably is due to all the electronics that are in that spot:
Everyone looks at the front and thinks there's space for a larger display without taking the innards into account.
The 'payoff' probably is due to all the electronics that are in that spot:
Everyone looks at the front and thinks there's space for a larger display without taking the innards into account.
Some components obviously already reside behind the display, so the stuff at the top could, too. It's a design choice -- it could just as easily house a larger screen in the same height and width by making it slightly thicker and losing the "end zones" at the top and bottom.
…so the stuff at the top could, too. It's a design choice
Nope. Look at the inside of an iPhone sometime.
Does… not… compute…
Never mind that you NEED THOSE to have a device that actually works.