iPhone 4S - Is it now behind the times?
- Thread starter mattyprice4004
- Start date
This. It's still one of the best phones out ATM, but iOS and the small screen make it very different to all it's competitors (note different, not necessarily worse).
/Richard Hammond face on/ aaaaa.. I might have...
but still - Note illustrates well how the large screen thing can be WAAAAY overdone
I have hands of a typical fat guitarist. Personally the bigger screen the better for me. But your argument, again - can be used the other way round. By the "girl" part alone, 48% of target customers have that hand size. Then add kids. Then add ethnic factor. Then add countries where people still text and operate phones while driving.
By young girl, I meant child.
I've yet to meet anyone (literally, anyone) who has had trouble using a phone the size of the SGS2. I've got pretty small hands myself, and I find it fine.
The Note would probably be too big for some people to use comfortably, but a phone the size of the SGS2 - Simply not an issue.
In that case, I will agree with you that the Note is an offensively large size for a phone.
For a mobile media device, it's fairly reasonable, and as there are quite a lot of people who don't actually make many phone calls, there is a market for the Note.
As Apple tend to stick to one device (just with memory size variants), they are always going to be cautious with things like the screen size. They won't want to run the risk of alienating a lot of buyers due to it being a bit too big.
I think that a 4" screen is the ideal size for the iPhone 5, and that's what I think it will be. I think 4.3" could work, but it might be pushing it a bit.
For a mobile media device, it's fairly reasonable, and as there are quite a lot of people who don't actually make many phone calls, there is a market for the Note.
As Apple tend to stick to one device (just with memory size variants), they are always going to be cautious with things like the screen size. They won't want to run the risk of alienating a lot of buyers due to it being a bit too big.
I think that a 4" screen is the ideal size for the iPhone 5, and that's what I think it will be. I think 4.3" could work, but it might be pushing it a bit.
Associate
- Joined
- 19 Jun 2009
- Posts
- 1,306
Iphone 4s has some decent hardware inside. Its GPU is in fact the most powerful to so far be put on a mobile device. Definitely one of the best phones.... so far!
The GPU itself is old hat it's the fact it has 2 of them that makes it fast.
Associate
- Joined
- 8 May 2007
- Posts
- 877
How is it overdone if there's a market for it? Thankfully there are companies providing actual choice in size, to suit a variety of different users.
Other people look for different things in a phone than you do, who would have thought it?
The OS is getting on a bit, they are a victim of their own success. Android is popular because of its diversity and UI, even though every Android phone has a slightly different UI. Apple will change their UI with the iphone 5, if they dont, they will be left behind.
i didn't have difficulty with my s2 but its certainly nowhere near as comfy to hold and operate with one hand as the 4/4s .
god knows why phones are getting bigger and bigger. whats the actual reason for it ?
Browsing and video would be the driving force i would say.
The yearly release cycle inevitably means that even if it is the best on release it will be overtaken.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5584/htcs-new-strategy-the-htc-one
Take the new HTC Tegra 3 and Krait phones for example.
However, it's not like it is that far behind, especially with Apple doing well to put in a powerful GPU which has taken half a year for Android phones to catch up to.
If you are talking about software, well that is so subjective I won't even bother to comment.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5584/htcs-new-strategy-the-htc-one
Take the new HTC Tegra 3 and Krait phones for example.
However, it's not like it is that far behind, especially with Apple doing well to put in a powerful GPU which has taken half a year for Android phones to catch up to.
If you are talking about software, well that is so subjective I won't even bother to comment.
Associate
- Joined
- 8 May 2007
- Posts
- 877
Because people are increasingly using their phones for more things than just making phone calls.
I switched from iPhone to Android precisely because the iPhone screen is now much too small for me.
I don't agree. The very design of iOS is what makes it appealing to a mass market in many ways. Certain aspects of it do seem dated and could be improved, but I think Apple will continue to improve and evolve it over time.
Android isn't massively different to previous builds either.
I think you are massively exaggerating android there. It's popular as its the only choice other than apple. It's on cheap, medium and high end phones.
Most people really don't care about such things. As long as its a smart phone with apps and intel right price range. Then people buy. Android will have proper windows competition by the end of the year.
