Apple plans to waggle iNormous 4½-incher in fanbois' faces Apple is preparing to unveil a new iPhone with a larger screen, it has been claimed. Fruity sources suggested to the Wall Street Journal that the new phone will come in two models. The first will have a screen of 4½ inches (11.4cm) measured diagonally, and a second version will boast a display of up to 5 inches (12.7cm). The …
Unlike some 'small' men who drive 'big' cars, wear 'big' watches yet have small feet and small hands, I don't need a phallus symbol of a large phone to pull out to try to impress the ladies.
Women are wise to the fact that large techno accoutrements are a strong indicator of small penis size.
That is why I have a small phone. The initial discomfort always leads to complete satisfaction.
A) NOBODY cares about what you like, what you think. NOBODY.
B) My smoking hot gf in her twenties with a fancy for expensive hair and nails, stockings and high heels has a VLP, and calls my 5 inch xperia z1 too small. I'm soon to upgrade her and she wants a Nokia 1520 at 6inches. That is what she will get.
C) Thankfully she deems my member a perfect size of just slightly larger than her upcoming screen.
D) Phabulet.
"Should Apple only ever sell one iPhones size at the time?"
According to the iFanboys who are prone to ridiculing anything not of the sacred fruit..
Yes.
Because apparently the holy aspect ratio of magnificence is one handed down by the Steve himself. And it optimises the user experience in many shiny shiny ways..
And apparently, "Nobody wants a big phone"
"Some people have small hands…"
Then they need to get bigger ones..
Sorry, but this is Apple. Choice is not an option. I mean.. how are you going to know you have the best one, if there are choices.. Think of the market confusion.. think of the FRAGMENTATIION!!!!
What next.. You want colours other than the classic turtleneck black, or the virginal white?
Don't forget blingtastic "champagne".
Some have argued that the 5C is a backdoor way of bifurcating the product line. It's not unimaginable that the 5C equivalent (6C?) would get a slightly larger screen and the 5S a much larger one.
What would be surprising is if anything happens before June at the earliest, or more likely September. I expect the same people who are taking a strong interest in the next iPhone now plan to start their Christmas celebrations this year in March.
Im a self confessed fanbois, i have been an Apple owner since 1979, but if Apple do this I think they are losing their way (but not of the first time).
Apple's USP, if you like, is not that it follows market demand (thats what Lenovo, Samsung, HTC etc do) but that they create market demand. The iPod and the iPhone show this. Sure there were similar products before hand, but the market exploded when Apple led the market to them. The same could be said of WIMP interface on computers. Before the Lisa and Mac, nobody knew they wanted one.
To start to become consumer led is to lose your lead, and that, for Apple, is a dead end. They will never compete on price and they are not commodity mass market producers. I foresee a repeat of the Scully 90's coming up, with failed attempts to licence products or services to OEMs and little innovation from Apple themselves. Sell your stock now.
Take it with a pinch of salt. the WSJ only says it got the info from "people familiar with the situation"
Which probably means the Digitimes article last week. And THAT one cited "sources" in the manufacturing plants, but no one specific.
And it's been proven that a Digitimes articles are nearly always wrong:
http://www.tuaw.com/2013/12/30/2013-rumor-retrospective-all-the-leaks-were/
Who says the 4.5" phone would be bigger? There's room to shrink the bezel on the 5/5S and increase the screen by 10% without increasing the size of the phone at all.
Then they can have one that is genuinely larger for those who want something bigger.
Saying that being "consumer led" is a terrible thing is kind of ridiculous. Apple does lead the market in a lot of ways, but even Steve Jobs couldn't see everything - he was willing to admit he was wrong about the size of the iPad. If he were still around Apple
At present, if I want a iOS device with a screen greater than 4 inches then I'm out of luck.
Similarly, if I want a Android device with a screen smaller than 4.3 inches (that isn't decidedly mid-spec) then I'm also out of luck.
If Apple do launch a "small" and "large" size then at least we can finally work out what the market actually prefers - rather than what the market is pushed to buying, whether they like it or not.
And yet again.
Since you are incapable of settling the debate without ACTUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE MATTER, I will settle it.
I am on my 9th, count it, 9th, flagship phone in 3 years, because I can, and buy what I WANT, and what has the best feature set, SoC, etc, not what anybody else tells me to buy. I'll tell you what the perfect screen size is, because I have had phones with screen sizes ranging from 3.5 inches all the way up to 5.7 inches. The perfect size for my average sized hands? (I'm 5'8") It's around 5.2 inches. Do I have the LG G2? No, I'm not a fan of the phone. I have two xperia z1 phones instead.
For what it's worth, when apple finally gets around to that size in around 2018, you'll call it perfect and forgot this debate was going on for years, in order to justify using that almost unusable paltry pathetic little screen for so long.
"Similarly, if I want a Android device with a screen smaller than 4.3 inches (that isn't decidedly mid-spec) then I'm also out of luck."
Wait until next month when the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact comes out. The first "mini" premium phone that has no features downgraded - apart from the somewhat unavoidable screen size & resolution and battery capacity.
Incidentally premium Android phones used to have screens smaller than 4.3 inches (The Z1C is almost exactly the same size as the then-premium Xperia S from 2 years ago) but they grew as that was the direction the market went. If the smaller screened phones outsold the bigger ones, the manufacturers would focus on smaller screened phones.
... Before anyone retorts, I'm not Sony obsessed but I have the S and was looking at upgrading to something that's pretty much the same so have had my eye on the Z1C since CES). I own/use consumer electronics from pretty much every major manufacturer including Apple.
When did polycarbonate become "cheap?" And why wouldn't someone want to avoid having to buy an aftermarket polycarbonate case for a phone because their life/work/play was likely to include dropping or smashing the phone from time to time? (Or just because they were a klutz?)
So let me get this straight: Apple is evil when it only sells expensive bling, but also evil when it sells a mire durable, lower-cost product? Not like you lot are biased or anything....
When did polycarbonate become "cheap?"
Er, since always? Injection moulded plastic parts are far cheaper than CNC'd aluminium parts, if you are making enough units. Moulded polycarbonate may be slightly more expensive than moulded ABS, but not by much - and we're only talking about a part that weight a few dozen grams.
Extruded skylight roofng panels and compact discs are also made of polycarbonate.
By eliminating the bezel, there's just enough to get to a 4.5" screen. With the same size body, those who like the current size won't be forced to stick with the 5S forever.
The other will be larger, probably an inch larger I'd bet to keep those with phablet envy happy.
Just give me more storage and an extra days battery use, Couldn't give two shits wether it's iphone or android anymore or 2k,4k,8k resolution or whatever they are trying to push these days, Have had both and they are just as good as each other. 128gb on device(before sd card) would be nice for a lazy bastard like myself who doesn't like deleting their podcasts and other media just to make room!
Ohhh and most importantly seeing as it is a phone after all how about adding a decent antenna instead of the shit from both lately, signal quality seems to be getting worse each new generation, Not sure if it's because of all the BS and bloatware installed or what but it can't be my phone company, The towers don't move!
Every 8 GB memory costs about $100 from Apple ...
From Apple, yes. The cost to Apple is much less. They charge the customer much more than it costs them in order to make what they call a "profit".
It would cost them very little extra (compared with the total price of an iPhone) to make 64GB rather than 16GB the standard capacity of the entry-level phone, but doing so would make it impossible for them to make massive profits on the top-end phones while keeping the low-end phones cheap enough for normal mortals.
It would also cost them very little in manufacturing terms to provide a micro-SDXC card slot, as many -- though sadly not all -- other manufacturers do, though this woud also make it hard for them to sell large-capacity phones at inflated prices.
"Samsung owners!
You don't need creaky plastic! Now you'll be able to see how it's done properly."
I don't use a samsung phone, but even I know you're talking bullox! Your assertion that Apple could do something right is laughable. Don't mistake huge profit from a smaller user base as success, or you would be mistaken.
If Apple "did it right", there would be no need for constant, insignificant, incremental changes.
Apple wonks have no right for grandeur, but always believe they have.
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