Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? 330
dkd903 writes "According to reports from Macotakara, Hitachi Displays Ltd and Sony Mobile Display Corporation has started shipping the screens for the iPad 3 and a 4-inch LCD screen for an unnamed iOS device. It would be fairly safe to assume that the 4-inch display will be for the next iPhone – the iPhone 5."
Here We Go.... (Score:4, Insightful)
I kinda hope not. (Score:5, Insightful)
I like a phone I can use with one hand easily. This whole post was typed with my right hand only, on my iPhone 4.
apparently iphone 4S doesn't bring in enough hits (Score:3, Insightful)
God, we've been talking about the iphone 5 every week for over a year now. I know blogs are desperate for page views, but this is getting old.
Re:Won't sell. (Score:5, Insightful)
except... if the next one is 4", then that would make the "current iScreen" 4", so they'll be happy. Don't you know how Apple works?
Re:I kinda hope not. (Score:2, Insightful)
Didnt' this get released last month? (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously?! (Score:5, Insightful)
Not to mention the rumour is that the screen is for a _NEW_ iOS device. If you're going to rumour-monger, at least get the rumours right...
Garbage like that is what gives good Apple fanbois like me a bad name...
Re:It would be dumb to replace the smaller one (Score:5, Insightful)
The headline should really read: "Rumour that next-gen iPhone may have incrementally larger display, similar to competing devices already doing well on the market". Not exactly a big deal, here.
Re:Here We Go.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Can we just agree that Apple hardware articles are flamebait by default, especially the ones about the mere possibility of new Apple hardware, and stop frickin posting them?
Plenty of the more popular things posted on this site are polarizing. Look at some of the things that aren't polarizing, how many comments they get, and contrast with the number of comments here. I'd argue it'd be irrational to not run stories that *always* get a large number of comments.
I love the theoretical physics posts, for instance, but they usually average 30-50 comments. This Apple post, though, might run 100 comments (or more) and it's just on screen size!
Re:I kinda hope not. (Score:5, Insightful)
that's interesting because there's a bit of truth in it.
it could be argued that Apple can't refine it's interfaces beyond a certain point because users adapt to Apple while Apple adapts to it's users.
perhaps we need competing products so Apple can watch people's complaints about their competitor's interfaces in order to get some fresh ideas for their own, because feedback about their own devices would be tainted by sycophant users who say "doubleplusgood" to everything they buy.
So the daily Jobs bowel movement posts keep comin' (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought we were done with those, but, /. post.
every rumor,
every idiosyncracy,
every non-newsworthy, trivial, bieberite thing about it,
is a front page
The integrity of the process (yeah, I know, have I read /. lately) is in jeopardy. Please stop, before Netcraft gets involved.
Re:So the daily Jobs bowel movement posts keep com (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I kinda hope not. (Score:5, Insightful)
Not true at all. If Apple makes a screen that makes their device unusable to me, I will a.) not buy it and b.) move to another device that IS usable. Why do you start out presuming that most people inconvenience themselves by using Apple products? Let the market speak for itself. If I find the device unwieldy, I'll skip it and buy one that isn't. Presuming I even need to replace this sucker anytime soon.
Re:Here We Go.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Your "flamebait" is my "topical", "interesting" and "discussion-worthy".
It is a sad world-view that sees any topic that engenders a lot of comments, even argument as necessarily "flamebait".
Re:Here We Go.... (Score:5, Insightful)
That's the sort of attitude that leads to news stations reporting meaningless scandals and outright fabrications, instead of real news. It's like offering a recovering alcoholic a beer. On some level they may want it, but it's bad for them and you'd be an ass to do so.
If you just want to rack up a bunch of comments, make Slashdot into a 24/7 "discussion" board for global warming and religion. That might rake in the advertising dollars in the short term, but the site would suck.
I don't think so. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Won't sell. (Score:0, Insightful)
Android supporters constantly claim that these kinds of people exist, yet they are never seen. Are they some kind of bogeyman invented to have something to mock? Real Apple fans are even bitchier than Android fans when it comes to criticizing Apple, as any visit to an Apple forum will prove. It seems Android has become a rallying point for two kinds of users--budget buyers not interested in phone quality and cross-armed, spec-obsessed techies who hate things that are popular.
I have tiny hands, seriously small. (Score:3, Insightful)
and I still switched to Android partially because of the availablility of 4.3" screens, they are SO much better.
Yes yes I know pixel resolution blah, however they are still quite competent screens. Infact I'll go as far as to say, the reason people think the iphone 4 screen is so good (it is) is heightened due to the 3G and 3GS being so bad.
No seriously, plug the specs in to a calculator, the 3G/S screen is AWFUL.
I have 800x480 on my 4.3" screen and yes the iphone looks better at fine stuff but mine still looks fantastic and it's big, nice and big. If I was a public transport user, this is actually an acceptable size to catch simpsons or southpark etc on in the morning on my phone.
While I'm at it,........ the iphone has only ONE button, all the other buttons MUST be drawn on the damn screen. Options, back, etc - all on the main screen. You might be used to it but I've trained myself off it now, I think the one button philosophy is an utter joke. 4 buttons is not unmanagable in the slightest. This frees up even MORE real estate - and it's consistent (hello apple!) because I can find my options (menu) button in the same location /EVERY/ time.
Best technical decision I've made in years. Iphone 3 -> 3GS -> 4 -> 4.3" Android phone, never, ever going back. â(TM)¥