“‘Big news,’ Apple’s website reads today, in text set over a photo of the new smartphone models the company just announced,” Ian Bogost writes for The Atlantic. “Two big iPhones display what look like gaseous planets. Big ones, like Jupiter, but maybe bigger than that, even. These phones are big.”
“The biggest one boasts a 6.5-inch display. But even the small phones are big now,” Bogost writes. “The ‘entry’ model, the iPhone XR, has a 6.1-inch display, almost three-quarters of an inch bigger than the iPhone 8 Plus, the previous large-screen model. The iPhone 8, which has the same footprint as models made since the 2014 iPhone 6, rocks ‘only’ a 4.7-inch display.”
“What’s going on? Bigger, costlier devices generate more profit, for one part. But for another, consumers seem to want bigger phones,” Bogost writes. “But Apple also has been pushing bigger models on its customers, so calling the trend a consumer choice is misleading and incomplete. Instead, Apple is making a statement about how you ought to use your smartphone. Not casually, but wholly. With your entire face and body involved. Both hands gripped fast to the device, held close, so the external world can recede and the smartphone’s can take its place.”
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The physical size is not that big just the screen.
Yep…Xs Max about the same dimensions as my 6Plus. As I look at the 6Plus, I marvel that it’s new version is the same size but all screen!
Anybody besides me remember when MDN ridiculed Android manufacturers for bringing out large phones?
I sure do. MDN blows like the wind. One of their first comments after release last year was how the iPhone X is the perfect size.
I think a lot of us are hot/cold on large phones. The larger phone is the most pleasurable to use, the smaller phone more comfortable to carry. Which size is right for each person is a matter of their preferences and lifestyle.
I do. And I will be holding onto my iPhone SE that fits neatly in my shirt pockets for a good while longer.
In the way that “the best camera you have is the one with you,” the best computing device is the one in your pocket. With 256 GB in my X, and some adaptive database programming, I have replaced the need for a laptop whilst traveling.
iPhone Xs Max, here I come…..one device to rule them all.
>adaptive database programming
Explain, please.
I scaled buttons, data entry, and reports (screen viewed) to the iPhone X. Some functions didn’t exactly scale so I created simplified workflows. In short, I customized my business functions for the iPhone X.
I’d rather spit into the wind then edit photos on my phone, it’s just dumb.
I guess it’s find for the FB crowd who post blurry photos from their phones, covered by some stupid filter.
should be funny watching women put this monster in their tiny back pockets.
It gives me another reason to glance at their back pockets, so I’m not complaining.
I freakin want an SE size phone with the edge to edge design of the X series…
Damnit Apple! Make the damn thing would ya!
Who’s with me! lets force Apple on this freaking non sens behavior. If Steve would be alive, this SE size would be a real thing!
And that Xr is freaking bigger than the Xs…
Glady second that! Make it so, Apple …
Third. iPhone SE form factor with wall-to-wall screen. Is that so hard for Apple designers to imagine? Should be a cakewalk.
Or maybe the issue is that a phone of that size just doesn’t have room for a big enough battery to power the A12 Bionic chip.
Good question. But honestly I could not care less about Face ID on an SE small factor phone. Widescreen, yes indeed. Load it with the best components it can handle at the lower price. I seriously doubt it will happen, so fingers crossed my SE lasts another five years …
I want an improved SE. I’m a guy, and want a phone that I can actually carry on my person. The new ones don’t seem to meet that requirement
The just replaced SE came out in the Spring, out of cycle with the rest of the iPhone line.
I’ll be waiting until next spring to what emerges from Cupertino before even considering upgrading.
Or not.
Clown phones for self-absorbed selfie taking.
Apple is now officially a gadget-only company.
Yes, handsome and powerful phones but edge-to-edge screens? No. The notch is still taking up some of the top edge. And MDN has even pointed this out numerous times.
So please, people: Quit diluting yourselves. And Apple: Quit lying to the world.
These false statements by Apple irk me as well. The left remains silent and that speaks volumes.
I don’t remember who said it and paraphrasing something like liberals never get mad when you lie about them. They only get mad when you tell the truth about them …
“Bigger, costlier devices generate more profit”
You mean like desktop Macs?
the Watch taking over the mobility functions of the Phone suggests the latter become a base-station to the former