Yup. The recent "OMG it's a tablet that can make calls!" movement in phones is pretty silly, and seems a case of the phone manufacturers blindly following a tr

Yup. The recent "OMG it's a tablet that can make calls!" movement in phones is pretty silly, and seems a case of the phone manufacturers blindly following a trend without a whole lot of thought. Apple, to its credit, clearly did think about the repercussions of a larger screen size. I wouldn't mind so much if only some phones were giant ones, but the last time I looked, there were like 30 different "giganto-phone" models, and only a few older models still left with more reasonable screen sizes. I'm in Japan, and there are a lot of phone manufacturers, but unfortunately they tend to move as a herd (you get a lot of variation in the details, but the overall form-factors tend to be pretty consistent amongst them). :( Indeed, it's Apple's thoughtfulness on very this matter that have made me think about buying an iphone for the first time. I want a phone that (1) I can use with one hand, (2) fits in my pocket, and (3) weighs very little. Although the original iphone seemed kinda chunky compared to other phones at the time, now even the larger iphone5 is looking very svelte compared to the competition! Unfortunately other iphone5 issues, like the whole maps thing and the camera problems, have put a bit of a damper on that idea... Wozniak's a good guy, but you go to him for crazy hacks that drastically reduce your chip count, not form-factor and usability advice...