I welcome the possibility of a 4" screened iPhone

[bearxor]

Yeah, I mean if your talking a dockable tablet, your talking about everything that's already in the iPad except for the logic board. We can make a good guess about how much Apple thinks the logics board is worth because they sell a 8GB iPhone 4 without the phone and without the LCD screen and stuff. The AppleTV 2. So, $100 retail. Just going off that logic, Apple might sell a main board free iPad for $400.

I thought about the whole second monitor as a airplay device. The main problem, as mentioned, is lack of control from the larger screen.

Still, there might be a market there. Imagine monitors that just looked like iPads, but were dumb AirPlay devices that connected to a system in the room that could output the airplay image of a main iPad across all of the connected dumb terminals. Might have something there for education.

Still wouldn't think itd cost significantly less that a standalone iPad, however.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

I got away from the iPhone 4S because I wanted better browsing experience. Flash and 4.3" Samsung S2 screen offered that. 3.5" doesn't cut it for me personally any more, thanks to competition I have options.

 

[Patranus]

Great image on thumb reach

 

[bearxor]

Great image on thumb reach

Read a couple of posts up. I totally disagree with the logic of that article.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Great image on thumb reach

My thumb reaches every part of the screen on my Rezound. I have much larger hands than the average person though. I tried the 4S and returned it after a day because web browsing was absolutely terrible.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

The person in the pic demonstrating thumb reach must have really small hands. I can reach all the way across the screen just fine with the Samsung Galaxy S2.

 

[manly]

The person in the pic demonstrating thumb reach must have really small hands. I can reach all the way across the screen just fine with the Samsung Galaxy S2.

Actually the graphic is poorly done, if you think about how people hold a phone and how the thumb pivots. bearxor is right there's more than one way to hold a phone, but the pivot point is close to the bottom corner. Nobody would anchor the base of their thumb at the vertical middle of the screen as implied by the graphic.

So it's easy to reach to the opposite side of the screen, but my thumb doesn't touch the top bezel of an iPhone. For many, a big screen would be trickier for one hand use but obviously have better Web browsing and landscape operation.

 

[Reckoner]

I'm selling my s2 for a 4s because I personally prefer a smaller screen. Personally I think it's time apple offered variations of the iPhone.one for people who prefer a bigger screen, and those who like the current size (iPhone nano?)

 

[Zaap]

If you look at the design of the iPhone, there's easily room for a larger screen, without making the device much bigger, if at all. Make more efficient use of the wasted space at both top and bottom, and make the screen fill more area and edge to edge. That would make for a nearly perfect form factor IMHO- which the Samsung currently comes much closer to.