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Can't believe they didn't make bigger screens. iPhones seem so tiny these days. Also, just 33 votes on HN atm - made me realize that probasbly people are alrea

by Tichy 13y ago

Can't believe they didn't make bigger screens. iPhones seem so tiny these days. Also, just 33 votes on HN atm - made me realize that probasbly people are already using HN votes as input for their stock trading aslgorithms :-)

dave1619 13y ago
I agree that Apple is missing out by only making 4" screens on the iPhone 5s/5c. If they really want to keep the 4" screen, they need to add another phone with a bigger screen, ie., 4.7" screen.
sytelus 13y ago
I disagree. The iPhone 4 had (and still has) the perfect dimension of any phones for holding in to adult average human hand and carrying it around in average sized pant pockets or strapping it on arms while jogging/hiking. The iPhone 5 ruined it a bit in trying to copy competition and not knowing that it actually had it better. I see people using large android brick sized phones all the time uncomfortably carrying it around in their relatively tiny hands and unable to hold anything else even when they are not using it because it's too big to put in pocket. I know Jobs had obsessed over iPhone dimensions a lot and arrived at the best compromise for a device you can actually live with without being felt lugging it around.
- acchow 13y ago
  HTC One is my daily carry. I miss the iPhone 4's smaller size... My hands always hurt from stretching to use the "back" button.
- Tichy 13y ago
  By that logic, Apple should have never published the iPad because it is too big to hold in a human hand. Carrying bigger phones in a pocket isn't really an issue either.
NamTaf 13y ago
I can't believe anyone wants a bigger screen. It's a phone, not a computer. I use it to quickly check email/web pages on the go, not write an essay. A bigger screen just means it ties up more room in my pocket.
- batiudrami 13y ago
  The only real use for a bigger screen is that using the internet is considerably more usable. The easiest way to see this is to compare the internet on an iPhone vs iPad - even though you have exactly the same inputs (assuming you don't use a stylus), the iPad is orders of magnitude easier to browse the web on. There is a similar effect (though obviously lesser) to interacting with web pages on a 5" screen vs a 4" one - much more so than the extra inch would suggest.
  - NamTaf 13y ago
    Of course, but if I want to do more than passing browsing then I would want to do it on a device other than my phone. My phone's net connection is for finding out quick info, like transport schedules or the current score in a sports match. It's not for doing extended browsing. Hence to me, a bigger screen is detrimental.
    - Tichy 13y ago
      You'd want to do extended browsing on another device precisely because the iPhone is too small. Your mind is stuck in "faster horses" land and you can't imagine what use you could get out of a better phone :-)
      - NamTaf 13y ago
        Disagree completely. My mind isn't stuck in 'faster horses' land. I just live in a winding medieval city full of laneways too narrow for a car. (That is to say, my use case is such that I want a small device, and that is more important to me than the ability to have a big screen - it'd be useless to me because I would not want to take it with me, destroying the 'mobile' in mobile phone.)

by Tichy 13y ago

dave1619 13y ago

I agree that Apple is missing out by only making 4" screens on the iPhone 5s/5c. If they really want to keep the 4" screen, they need to add another phone with a bigger screen, ie., 4.7" screen.

sytelus 13y ago

I disagree. The iPhone 4 had (and still has) the perfect dimension of any phones for holding in to adult average human hand and carrying it around in average sized pant pockets or strapping it on arms while jogging/hiking. The iPhone 5 ruined it a bit in trying to copy competition and not knowing that it actually had it better. I see people using large android brick sized phones all the time uncomfortably carrying it around in their relatively tiny hands and unable to hold anything else even when they are not using it because it's too big to put in pocket. I know Jobs had obsessed over iPhone dimensions a lot and arrived at the best compromise for a device you can actually live with without being felt lugging it around.

acchow 13y ago
HTC One is my daily carry. I miss the iPhone 4's smaller size... My hands always hurt from stretching to use the "back" button.
Tichy 13y ago
By that logic, Apple should have never published the iPad because it is too big to hold in a human hand. Carrying bigger phones in a pocket isn't really an issue either.

NamTaf 13y ago

I can't believe anyone wants a bigger screen. It's a phone, not a computer. I use it to quickly check email/web pages on the go, not write an essay. A bigger screen just means it ties up more room in my pocket.

batiudrami 13y ago
The only real use for a bigger screen is that using the internet is considerably more usable. The easiest way to see this is to compare the internet on an iPhone vs iPad - even though you have exactly the same inputs (assuming you don't use a stylus), the iPad is orders of magnitude easier to browse the web on. There is a similar effect (though obviously lesser) to interacting with web pages on a 5" screen vs a 4" one - much more so than the extra inch would suggest.
- NamTaf 13y ago
  Of course, but if I want to do more than passing browsing then I would want to do it on a device other than my phone. My phone's net connection is for finding out quick info, like transport schedules or the current score in a sports match. It's not for doing extended browsing. Hence to me, a bigger screen is detrimental.
  - Tichy 13y ago
    You'd want to do extended browsing on another device precisely because the iPhone is too small. Your mind is stuck in "faster horses" land and you can't imagine what use you could get out of a better phone :-)
    - NamTaf 13y ago
      Disagree completely. My mind isn't stuck in 'faster horses' land. I just live in a winding medieval city full of laneways too narrow for a car. (That is to say, my use case is such that I want a small device, and that is more important to me than the ability to have a big screen - it'd be useless to me because I would not want to take it with me, destroying the 'mobile' in mobile phone.)