“Whenever we do a poll about what new features people would like to see most in a new iPhone, the No. 1 vote getter always seems to be ‘bigger screen’ followed by ‘better battery life,'” David Carnoy writes for CNET.
“The question, of course, is, just how big should the iPhone’s screen be, or more broadly speaking, what’s the optimal screen size for a smartphone?” Carnoy writes. “Well, while Motorola’s new Moto X may not measure up to the Samsung Galaxy S4, and the HTC One in terms of raw performance and screen resolution, after playing around with it for a few days, I think its 4.7-inch screen size is pretty ideal in the context of the overall design of the phone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The perfect iPhone screen size is different for different people. That’s why multi-billion dollar Apple should have a family of iPhones offering a carefully considered range of, say, three screen sizes (4-, 4.5, and 5-inch, perhaps) along with some elegant way for developers to easily address all three screen sizes on the market by now, but, inexplicably, don’t. Hopefully, they will sooner than later.
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