Yes. I am fairly sure that most people do not want a taller iPhone. They want a wider one, as evidenced by the success of the S3 and other larger smartphones... to say nothing of design principles based on aesthetic proportions that go all the way back to the ancient Greeks.
I have no idea what I would do with a taller iPhone 4S, other than complain about how I still have to spin it around to orient it properly 75% of the time when I pull it out of my pocket, and about how its display is still too narrow to be used safely for navigation and music playback in my car.
If I'm wrong, and there is a huge unmet market demand for an iPhone that is taller than a 4/4S but no wider, it will mean that I have no insight or understanding of the smartphone market as a whole, no product-design sensibility to speak of, and that I need to STFU and stop complaining. Nobody likes to be confronted with their own poor judgment, right?
I would like a taller iPhone because my only compliant about the size is how cramped the screen gets when I have the keyboard open or use apps that happen to have both a toolbar and a nav bar. Otherwise I think the physical size of the device is about perfect.
I disagree about the width/height. 640 on the iPhone vs. 720 on many newer Android phones. Not a huge difference there. Enough to notice certainly but it's the height that is far more dramatic. 960 on the iPhone vs. 1280 on many newer Android phones.
It's not the pixel resolution I'm complaining about, but the physical screen size. The Retina display has a much higher dot pitch than it really needs IMHO. Back off on the dot pitch, keep the resolution the same, and give me a bigger screen.
Interesting points. However I can see music playback work nicely: a music player in extra-wide landscape orientation would actually be quite similar to the backlit LCD screen of a classic car radio. You just need to way to firmly fix it somewhere in that orientation.
I agree that wouldn't really work for navigation, but for music it'd be kinda cool.
(note: I'm not actually thinking of buying an iPhone, going to get an Android, though probably not the latest model)
I'm not too excited over perspective of getting a murse to carry a phone. Taller iPhone still complies with a requirement for a phone to fit in the jeans pockets safely. And that seems to be a more thoughtful reasoning behind product design rather than "bigger = wider".
Funny enough it does seem as if Galaxy S3 is more popular with women here in Singapore. Might that be because they keep their gadgets in purses or I'm just wrong with my observation?
I have no idea what I would do with a taller iPhone 4S, other than complain about how I still have to spin it around to orient it properly 75% of the time when I pull it out of my pocket, and about how its display is still too narrow to be used safely for navigation and music playback in my car.
If I'm wrong, and there is a huge unmet market demand for an iPhone that is taller than a 4/4S but no wider, it will mean that I have no insight or understanding of the smartphone market as a whole, no product-design sensibility to speak of, and that I need to STFU and stop complaining. Nobody likes to be confronted with their own poor judgment, right?