Phones are getting HUGE again.

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Remember a time when phones got smaller and smaller.... well they're going back to brick size as you might have noticed.

Sure the monster Android phones on the horizon have mouth watering specs BUT come on thats not a phone! A tablet maybe...

My feeling is everything over 4 inches is way to big, your feelings?
 
Oh no! What have i said!...... come on guys, thread derailed from first post!
 
This is priceless!
Edit, thanks you vegeta, I was really depressed, now I'm happy
 
Vegeta said:
Oh no! What have i said!...... come on guys, thread derailed from first post!
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What did you think was gonna happen when you suggested 4 inches was enough? :D

Okay, back to regular programming...:o
 
I should rephrase! Anything with a SCREEN over 4 inches :)
 
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Vegeta said:
Remember a time when phones got smaller and smaller.... well they're going back to brick size as you might have noticed.

Sure the monster Android phones on the horizon have mouth watering specs BUT come on thats not a phone! A tablet maybe...

My feeling is everything over 4 inches is way to big, your feelings?
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So I guess you like holding the possessions you have that are less than 4 inches?
 
Vegeta said:
Oh no! What have i said!...... come on guys, thread derailed from first post!
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On a serious note... the initial bricks were only to make and receive calls. Notebooks were the size of current desktop PC. Technology improved and they both diminished in size, but the cellphone essentially remained a handset to make/receive calls.

Then technology overtook the need to have a handset only to make/receive calls and the handset, and specifically the screen size, has become too small to handle the applications and usages now on offer.

So technology has snookered itself and now we head back to a handset the size of a brick again!
 
moggie said:
On a serious note... the initial bricks were only to make and receive calls. Notebooks were the size of current desktop PC. Technology improved and they both diminished in size, but the cellphone essentially remained a handset to make/receive calls.

Then technology overtook the need to have a handset only to make/receive calls and the handset, and specifically the screen size, has become too small to handle the applications and usages now on offer.

So technology has snookered itself and now we head back to a handset the size of a brick again!
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The thing is though that the actual phones havent gotten that much bigger - my Desire is actually smaller than my old E61. The screen size just makes new phones sound big, but they're pretty much all screen. I would say 4.3" is about the limit though, after that you start to enter tablet or MID territory.
 
I'm actually looking at the Samsung Galaxy S (4'') and Dell Streak (5'').

To quote a line from TechRadar :

The capacitive multi-touch screen, as we mentioned, measures up at 5-inches, which would be too small to be called a tablet, strictly speaking, yet too big to quality as a smartphone. The Dell Streak will need to smash those conventions if its to be a success.
It's a very slim device and, at just 9.98mm, it's slimmer than our top ranking handset, the HTC Desire. It only weights 220g and, if you don't mind the top poking out, it slides quite nicely into a jeans pocket too, measuring up at 152.2 x 79.1 x 9.98mm.
But how are we supposed to hold this thing? In terms of the grip, it feels very natural adopting a two-handed approach in landscape mode, letting the device rest between both palms.
Also it's by no means too large to clutch like a regular smartphone, and when reading webpages and making calls, that's what you're going to want to do.
All in all, it's a very, attractive device, up there with Dell's luxury Adamo range of laptops in terms of design. But while those devices are aspirational underperformers, the Streak will cost you no more than your average modern-day smartphone and it's got it where it counts.


Read more: http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/dell-streak-694319/review#ixzz0t7X9bxU3
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My iPhone 3G is a great size for a smartphone, it's got a huge crystal clear screen but best of all so slim I sometimes drop it in my top shirt pocket when my hands are busy. The iPhone4 is even slimmer.
 
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