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Rumor is that the Prime will have a 4.65 inch screen. Why stop there? The Galaxy Note is 5.3 inches. Android handsets are becoming ridiculous. We spent all thi

Rumor is that the Prime will have a 4.65 inch screen. Why stop there? The Galaxy Note is 5.3 inches. Android handsets are becoming ridiculous. We spent all this time trying to make things small, but in an effort to differentiate themselves, manufacturers started making things huge again. Most of the high end phones would not even fit comfortably in my jeans pockets.

vidarh 15y ago
The make things huge because it sells well. There's definitively a large market segment for whom the iPhone form factor is too small. Myself included - it was one of the big things that stopped me from getting one; I just can't type on the thing at a reasonable speed. My HTC Desire HD is more than small enough to fit in my pocket, and rests comfortably in my hand, and I love having a decent sized display and I can actually type on it at a tolerable speed. I could easily handle a device a bit bigger than that with one hand, I might just get one because it reduces the number of situations where the screen is "too small" for it to be nice to use.
ZeroGravitas 15y ago
The iPhone 4S has a 3.5 diagonal screen, but a 5.1 inch diagonal frame. Most Android phones are increasing the screen size while decreasing the bezel, but only the increased screen size gets quoted. The next generation using Ice-Cream Sandwich, such as the Prime you mention, can replace the capacitive keys at the bottom with on-screen buttons, just like Honeycomb tablets. The screen size alone doesn't tell you everything about the device size. This site shows a comparison (note you can click in the top right corner to resize the pictures to actual size) http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-prime-vs-apple-iphone-4-16gb http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-prime-vs-apple-iphone-4-... It's only slightly bigger, yet has nearly double the screen area.
- 2muchcoffeeman 15y ago
  You should really compare sizes by lining up edges. They have not really decreased the bezel that much either. But area increases as a square so you get good returns. http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-pictures-3621.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-pictures-3... http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_3d-pictures-3901.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_3d-pictures-3901.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-pictures-3468.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-pictures-3468.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_hd_lte-4198.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_hd_lte-4198.php I'd handled the HTC Desire HD a fair bit (someone at work has one). The opposite end of increasing as a square is that small increases are bigger than they sound. It's a lot of phone there. I am sure a lot of people are fine with it. If they could make everything edge to edge, I'l be right there with with.
  - ZeroGravitas 15y ago
    At least with Firefox you can drag the images and get a trasparent onion-skin image to move around and compare any edges you want. It's still not much bigger.
rsheridan6 15y ago
Different strokes for different folks. I would like a bigger screen and I don't wear jeans. If you don't want a big screen, there will be plenty of Android phones with smaller screens. That's one big advantage Android has over the iphone. Android can cater to different segments while the iphone is one-size-fits-all (literally and figuratively).

vidarh 15y ago

The make things huge because it sells well. There's definitively a large market segment for whom the iPhone form factor is too small. Myself included - it was one of the big things that stopped me from getting one; I just can't type on the thing at a reasonable speed. My HTC Desire HD is more than small enough to fit in my pocket, and rests comfortably in my hand, and I love having a decent sized display and I can actually type on it at a tolerable speed. I could easily handle a device a bit bigger than that with one hand, I might just get one because it reduces the number of situations where the screen is "too small" for it to be nice to use.

ZeroGravitas 15y ago

The iPhone 4S has a 3.5 diagonal screen, but a 5.1 inch diagonal frame. Most Android phones are increasing the screen size while decreasing the bezel, but only the increased screen size gets quoted. The next generation using Ice-Cream Sandwich, such as the Prime you mention, can replace the capacitive keys at the bottom with on-screen buttons, just like Honeycomb tablets. The screen size alone doesn't tell you everything about the device size. This site shows a comparison (note you can click in the top right corner to resize the pictures to actual size) http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-prime-vs-apple-iphone-4-16gb http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-prime-vs-apple-iphone-4-... It's only slightly bigger, yet has nearly double the screen area.

2muchcoffeeman 15y ago
You should really compare sizes by lining up edges. They have not really decreased the bezel that much either. But area increases as a square so you get good returns. http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-pictures-3621.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-pictures-3... http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_3d-pictures-3901.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_3d-pictures-3901.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-pictures-3468.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-pictures-3468.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_hd_lte-4198.php http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_hd_lte-4198.php I'd handled the HTC Desire HD a fair bit (someone at work has one). The opposite end of increasing as a square is that small increases are bigger than they sound. It's a lot of phone there. I am sure a lot of people are fine with it. If they could make everything edge to edge, I'l be right there with with.
- ZeroGravitas 15y ago
  At least with Firefox you can drag the images and get a trasparent onion-skin image to move around and compare any edges you want. It's still not much bigger.

rsheridan6 15y ago

Different strokes for different folks. I would like a bigger screen and I don't wear jeans. If you don't want a big screen, there will be plenty of Android phones with smaller screens. That's one big advantage Android has over the iphone. Android can cater to different segments while the iphone is one-size-fits-all (literally and figuratively).