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iPhone 5s same screen size?

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Rakehellion said:
I use one hand. That's kind of the whole reason smartphones are portrait-oriented by default.
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They're portrait oriented because they started as phones, and guess which orientation works best for phones? 😛

I find it more comfortable to use two hands, and it doesn't matter what device I'm using. I browse on my Note 2 the same way I do on my wife's iPhone 5.
 
WelshBloke said:
I'm just wondering why that's humorous that's all.

I can navigate just with my thumb fine, I just prefer to use both hands and have even with smaller phones than iPhones.
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One thumb? You must be Lebron James. Lol.

When I said humorous, I was referring to the fact that you're forced to have a second hand free while using the Note. I've seen people having to let go of a bar while standing on the train to use their phone. The humorous part comes when the train stops. Lol
Oyeve said:
The fact is most people use 2 hands on any given gadget. Even the iphone.
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Is that a fact?
 
I always laugh when i see people whip out their Apple iPhone 5, which literally looks like a matchbook
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I guess when you get to be that age, you eyesight isn't what it used to be.

I don't see the point of a five-inch phone except to watch movies, which I don't plan to do on a park bench or on the subway as it is.
 
What's funny is that on the iPhone 5, while using it one handed the experience slows to a crawl anytime the keyboard pops up, whereas on my Note 2 or any other Android phone I can continue speeding along thanks to one handed gesture typing. Apple seriously needs to license the technology.
 
Red Storm said:
They're portrait oriented because they started as phones, and guess which orientation works best for phones? 😛

I find it more comfortable to use two hands, and it doesn't matter what device I'm using. I browse on my Note 2 the same way I do on my wife's iPhone 5.
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And they're still phones. I don't see any that are in landscape mode by default or with hardware buttons rotated at a 90 degree angle.

It's much more convenient to use a phone one-handed. Maybe you're just clumsy.
 
Rakehellion said:
I guess when you get to be that age, you eyesight isn't what it used to be.

I don't see the point of a five-inch phone except to watch movies, which I don't plan to do on a park bench or on the subway as it is.
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Simmer down guy, it was a parody of his post.

And like i said i have owned both.
 
MrX8503 said:
Android devices were low res for a while during the iPhone 4's release. Now high res is all the craze.
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Nice revisionism.

Actually, Apple was still stuck on 480*320 when the OG Droid raised the stakes to 854*480. They finally caught up eight months later with the 4. Then they stood pat until 720p becaume Android standard *in 2011*. They still haven't caught up, and sub-720p now that the flagship standard is 1080p is a big gap.
 
Rakehellion said:
And they're still phones. I don't see any that are in landscape mode by default or with hardware buttons rotated at a 90 degree angle.

It's much more convenient to use a phone one-handed. Maybe you're just clumsy.
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Yes, that must be it. 🙄

Phones are just one of the many, many things they are now. I do hold it one-handed when making phone calls, as I'm sure everyone does.

I can browse one handed, but I find the two hand approach more comfortable and relaxing, and it doesn't matter if it's an iPhone or a Note.
 
s44 said:
Nice revisionism.

Actually, Apple was still stuck on 480*320 when the OG Droid raised the stakes to 854*480. They finally caught up eight months later with the 4. Then they stood pat until 720p becaume Android standard *in 2011*. They still haven't caught up, and sub-720p now that the flagship standard is 1080p is a big gap.
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The OG Droid's screen wasn't all that sharp.
 
MrX8503 said:
The OG Droid's screen wasn't all that sharp.
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Isn't it relative? The Android phones with WVGA/FWVGA screens were more sharper than the Iphone 2G/3G/3GS screen than the iPhone 4 screen was sharper than the WVGA/FWVGA screen. WVGA increased pixel count by 2.5x from HVGA, while iPhone 4's DVGA only increased pixel count by 1.6x from WVGA.

Many manufacturers were already pushing phone resolutions, not just Apple.
 
MrX8503 said:
The OG Droid's screen wasn't all that sharp.
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It was ~260 ppi, which was incredibly good for the time. There weren't many other devices that pushed beyond significantly beyond that resolution for quite some time, and there were a lot of flagship phones from other manufacturers (such as the Evo and Galaxy SII) that had much lower ppi's.

If anything, the biggest problem with the display was that the touch sensor wasn't very good and prone to some inaccuracy. Here's an old video showing a test of phone touch screen accuracy. The Droid performs worse than every other phone tested.
 
zerocool84 said:
But it was still retina dpi.
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You could see the pixels on the Droid

Mopetar said:
It was ~260 ppi, which was incredibly good for the time. There weren't many other devices that pushed beyond significantly beyond that resolution for quite some time, and there were a lot of flagship phones from other manufacturers (such as the Evo and Galaxy SII) that had much lower ppi's.

If anything, the biggest problem with the display was that the touch sensor wasn't very good and prone to some inaccuracy. Here's an old video showing a test of phone touch screen accuracy. The Droid performs worse than every other phone tested.
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The iPhone 4 came out around the EVO and SGS2.
 
After being long time iPhone user and proponent, I gave in this week and pre-ordered the Galaxy S4 to replace our (wife and I) iPhone 4s's.

Will have it by the end of next week and hopefully I don't regret the decision.

I owned a iPhone 3 day one but it was so dog shit slow that I switch to a Droid 1 when it came out and that was my 1st long term experience with Android. I had that Droid 1 for nearly 2 years then went back to a iPhone 4 then to the 4s I have now.

I just cannot justify the small screen and lack of advances on the iPhones anymore. The 5 was a baby step in the right direction but still to small of a screen for what I wanted.

Hopefully I enjoy the Android OS now that it's had a few years to mature since I last used it daily and I'm sure I'll love the S4 hardware/screen wise way more than the iPhone.

Of course this will be the year Apple pulls off a total surprise and releases a iPhone with a 5" Retina OLED screen or something.... 🙂
 
thecapsaicinkid said:
The bezel on the N4 is smaller than the iPhone 5.
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I'm talking about soft and hard buttons, but you bring up the iPhone 5 why? Bezel seems to matter more as the phone gets too large. 4.7" is fine with a smaller bezel.

MrX8503 said:
One thumb? You must be Lebron James. Lol.

When I said humorous, I was referring to the fact that you're forced to have a second hand free while using the Note. I've seen people having to let go of a bar while standing on the train to use their phone. The humorous part comes when the train stops. Lol
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So true. I see plenty of people with Notes in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I think it has to do with writing Chinese. Far easier with a large screen. But EVERYONE is on their phones in the subway, and you know there's never enough seats in Asia... heh. I've seen that happen quite a bit.
 
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