What's happening with iPhone 5?

Well considering the iPad has a lower PPI but is a 'retina' display, they have some room to make the screen bigger and keep it 'retina',

Hell no am I going to do the maths though =)
 
oli356 said:
Well considering the iPad has a lower PPI but is a 'retina' display, they have some room to make the screen bigger and keep it 'retina',

Hell no am I going to do the maths though =)
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Well with the iPad they claimed the typical viewing distance was further away than with the iPhone, hence why it could drop below 300PPI and still be called 'Retina'.

Granted these are their own 'rules', so they could change them if they wanted but they'd look fairly stupid if they suddenly tried to claim that a PPI lower than 300 on the iPhone was still 'Retina' and you were supposed to just hold it further away :)

They have a bit of leeway as the current PPI is 326 but I think 300 equates to only around 3.8 inches diagonal so not too much. Frankly I think they might bump it up to this kind of size but no further. I doubt they'd go for a 4 inch screen as it impacts the usability of the device with one hand for many people.
 
Aha I see.

I think my old Samsung Galaxy S was 4". It was a OK for me, but I have quite large hands... compared to say my sister! What I did find is how much more room it tookup in my pockets.
Makes me wonder why people have that Galaxy Note as a phone.. 5.3" or something. Massive!
 
It's actually interesting to note how different people use their phones. I always use mine one-handed, typing with my thumb. If I have a lot of text to enter then I switch to landscape and use both thumbs to type. I've seen a lot of people however who hold the phone with one hand and then use their index finger on the other hand to select and type, which I never ever do. This is obviously easier with larger screens but I still see people doing it on small phones like the iPhone so a lot of it is down to personal preference or what you're used to.

If you tend to hold with one hand and type with the other then you'd be fine regardless of screen size but, if you use one hand like I do, then larger screens can start getting awkward. I find using my girlfriend's Galaxy S2 like this a pain tbh.
 
KIA said:
Heard of Flashback?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18390135
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A few thousand macs get infected compared to millions of windows users?

My point about security was more of the apple's process of doing things, such as programs have to be vetted by apple to be allowed to run a stock iOS product making it more secure than android or windows 7m. It makes it limited, but controlled and safe, which is what I want in a phone.
 
It's a fundamental fact that, the more open a system, the more susceptible to attacks and exploits it is and vice-versa. Whilst there are downsides to Apple's closed system, there are advantages and one of them is that the iOS platform is all but invulnerable to viruses and malware, certainly compared to Android. I'm sure I read an article not long ago saying that, whilst malware in the wild on Android was increasing massively, there's literally nothing in the wild that can fundamentally compromise an iPhone or iPad, for now at least. The unlikelihood of anything nasty getting through Apple's vetting and into the store, combined with the way iOS runs everything in a sandbox, makes it all but impossible.

As for Android, well frankly I wouldn't trust Google as far as I could throw them when it comes to security. One look at the fiasco that was Google Wallet shows what little grip they have on things.
 
Vertigo1 said:
It's a fundamental fact that, the more open a system, the more susceptible to attacks and exploits it is and vice-versa. Whilst there are downsides to Apple's closed system, there are advantages and one of them is that the iOS platform is all but invulnerable to viruses and malware, certainly compared to Android. I'm sure I read an article not long ago saying that, whilst malware in the wild on Android was increasing massively, there's literally nothing in the wild that can fundamentally compromise an iPhone or iPad, for now at least. The unlikelihood of anything nasty getting through Apple's vetting and into the store, combined with the way iOS runs everything in a sandbox, makes it all but impossible.

As for Android, well frankly I wouldn't trust Google as far as I could throw them when it comes to security. One look at the fiasco that was Google Wallet shows what little grip they have on things.
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Invulnerable? How do you think the 'jailbreak me' jailbreak was made? Magic?

Sure, Apple test the software of the apps, but they don't look at the code. Think about how many tethering apps have managed to get through the process. Apple have access to the app, they don't have access to the code.
 
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