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Am I the only one who was happy with the size of my iPhone 4? Why does it need to be so damn large? I feel like a big enough dork carrying my current phone around on my belt. Any bigger, and it better be a fucking tricorder and tell me what the chemical composition of the food I ordered, and diagnose why I'm hacking up a lung.
I think it's funny, they keep making the screen larger, and the body thinner. The thinner body makes it harder to do the shoulder to the ear trick to keep the phone next to your ear. Can't be on speakerphone all the time, ya know!
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The regular iPhone 6 is only a little bit wider than my 4S, but it's maybe half an inch taller.
I'd prefer a smaller phone when using it for phone calls but I don't spend much time on the phone anyway. I do use mine a lot for web browsing, so I'm leaning towards the 6+ for that reason.
I found the printout of the pdf I linked to above to be very helpful. I'm going to attach the cutouts of the phones to cardboard to get an idea what it'd be like to cary each one around, put in my pocket, etc.
That's a really good idea, tommyrot.
Thanks, Tommyrot. I just don't see how the 6+ could possibly fit comfortably in my pocket.
Next from Apple: iClothes, the clothes with bigger pockets.
I wear a lot of cargo pants these days (so I can carry my 4S and sunglasses) and the 6+ would fit fine in those. But sometimes I carry my 4S in my jeans next to my wallet, which wouldn't work for the 6+. When I'm wearing jeans and no coat I usually carry the 4S in a belt holster.
eta: Big pockets x-posty!
If phones get bigger maybe I will actually be able to use one. I get that people with eyes and hands that work normally dig tiny phones and tablets. But I hope there will be more and more oversized options for those of us for whom that is not true. It is possible to have bad enough eyes that even with glasses you have trouble seeing well. And there are all sorts of things that can make using your hands more difficult.
Yeah, it's hard enough to get girl clothes with pockets, never mind BIG pockets!
For $50 less than the price of an Apple Watch, you could get this: Amazon.com: Invicta Men's 5514 Subaqua Collection Gold-Tone Chronograph Watch: Invicta: Watches
List price is $1,995, now only $299.99!
Looking at it kinda' makes my eyes hurt. (I'm not fond of gold or gold-plated things.)
