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This is an interesting opinion to me. My background: I had a "dumb phone" until Sept. 2012 when I bought myself an iPhone 5 as my first smartphone. I'm a large
by adt2bt 13y ago
This is an interesting opinion to me. My background:
I had a "dumb phone" until Sept. 2012 when I bought myself an iPhone 5 as my first smartphone. I'm a large guy (6'4") and have been more than pleased with the size. It fits in my pocket perfectly; I can use one hand to do everything; I don't have any trouble with the display at all.
However, I've noticed this general trend towards bigger phones as the future. In my mind, I always thought the larger the phone, the more the hassle. Phablets look utterly ridiculous. In your opinion, what are the benefits to a larger phone? Do you game? Is text larger/easier to read? I am genuinely interested.
As another note: I have my iPhone in a case. It's not an Otter Box or anything, but when I take it out of the case occasionally it feels ridiculously lightweight and small. After a few minutes/hours, the feeling normalizes and then suddenly the case, which was perfectly fine just a few hours ago, feels quite cumbersome. Could this be a factor in your perception?
- dba7dba 13y agoLarger percentage of people in Europe/Asia commute via public transportation, meaning they have more than an hour a working day where they can't do much else other than read something. With smartphones people started reading/browsing/watching/gaming. And of course for these, bigger phone is more attractive. They couldn't care less what they look like as long as they get the functionality they want out of the phones.
- adt2bt 13y agoI can see that use case clearly now. I, too, commute with public transportation and quickly started bringing actual books, and actually just recently bought a Kindle Fire for the commute. It's wonderful. Honestly (unrelated to screen size), I don't think I'll ever want to go back to paying money for a car to haul my own ass to work every day. I realized the other day that if I get a car that costs me $500/mo. for 72 months and commute to work on average 21 days a month, I'm spending $24 per round trip. Have the car for 15 years? Still $8/trip, not to mention maintenance, gas, parking and all of the other hassles. Sorry for the ramble, this is something I just realized after moving to a city in the States and realizing how freaking awesome public transportation is!
- dba7dba 13y agoHaha, awesome that you actually crunched the numbers. One reason the poor in US have EXTRA hard time getting out of poverty IMO is the requirement of a private car. If a poor American happens to lose use of a car (breakdown, gas price, etc), he/she immediately starts having hard time just getting to work. They could, but it takes 1-2 hr each way. The same commute would take half that time with a private car. And don't forget they have to pick up kids, go to medical care, grocery shop, etc. In other countries with well connected/cheap public transportation, no such barrier exists.
- babesh 13y agoSorry but round trip by train and bus would cost me $15 a day. Rather go by car.
- dba7dba 13y ago@babesh It's because you live in a place with no REAL public transportation. With a real public transportation system, you can go places at much lower cost.
- vacri 13y agoPart of the problem with the iphone form factor for me is that there are these great honking useless black 'tabs' off the top and bottom of the screen. The footprint of the screen is considerably smaller than the footprint of the phone. Widen the phone a little, shorten it a little, and you get the same ratio but in a larger screen taking up a greater proportion of the footprint. So much wasted space.