Ok that's his thoughts on the phone. He still thinks is the best phone, and I hate the thing. Just my thoughts. He wishes it was design differently. It don't really matter what people want because if apple makes it, it will sell and apple knows this.
On 11/28/17, Ed Worrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Honestly the article is another session of someone finding an unrealistic > issue with the iPhone. I really think if you can’t take a break from what > you are doing and use both hands on the phone the notifications or posting > to social media can wait until you’re done with the task at hand. Nothing is > that important in life that it can’t wait a single second. > > JMO, > > Ed > >> On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:08 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Apple Should Have Shrunk the iPhone around the Screen, >> Instead They Grew the Screen to Fill the Body. >> >> By Robert Perez. >> >> Dennis Green at Business Insider offered an explanation for why he's >> decided >> to stop using the iPhone X and go back to a Plus, and it brings up a lot >> of >> feelings I've had about Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone lately. >> >> But there's really only one flaw that really matters to me: the phone is >> impossible for me to use with one hand. >> >> Though the phone is only a bit bigger than the iPhone 6, 7, and 8, the >> bezel-less screen makes for an enormous size increase. >> >> The new gestures required by the notch mean there's no way to look at my >> notifications with only one hand, or access the control center. Those are >> pretty essential functions, and it drastically limits the usability of >> the >> phone when I'm on the go or when I only have one hand free.- Dennis >> Green, >> Business Insider >> >> I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The narrow aspect ratio of >> the >> iPhone X is to make one-handed use easier but the user interface makes >> two >> hands a necessity. I swing back and forth between upgrading to an 8 Plus >> or >> an iPhone X. I'm torn between the Plus's wider aspect ratio or getting >> the >> iPhone X's awesome FaceID. >> >> I still think that the iPhone X is the best phone you can possibly get, >> but >> the size was somewhat of a compromise. I constantly come back to the fact >> that I wish Apple had shrunk the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus so that the the >> screen >> sizes had remained unchanged and the bezels around them had shrunk. >> >> If Apple had shrunk the phone body around the 4.7" screen, then >> one-handed >> use on the whole screen would have remained possible for most people. >> Further, a lot of SE owners, like my wife, would have finally been able >> to >> upgrade to the 4.7" screen. This group would have been ecstatic. >> >> Also, a lot of us users of the 5.5" Plus prefer this wide aspect ratio >> because the extra width makes everything feel more spacious. Video detail >> is >> easier to see and fonts everywhere are bigger. The 5.8" screen on the X >> is >> actually larger and can physically display more data, but due to the >> narrow >> width, it looks cramped in comparison to the 5.5" Plus. >> >> I compared my phone to my co-workers X and found some interesting >> differences. All the text and pictures on my 7 Plus were larger. You can >> see >> much more content on the X but everything is much smaller. Apple seems to >> be >> making an attempt to mitigate this by making the fonts render thicker. >> The >> letters look much bolder than on my 7 Plus. It does help somewhat but >> doesn't change the fact that the letters on the 7 Plus are significantly >> larger and easier to read. I can read the 7 Plus without zooming in on >> the >> text. I can't do that on the X, which renders its size advantage moot. >> >> >> >> >> My problem with the Plus has always been the length of the phone, not the >> width. It is difficult to fit into pockets, will physically hurt your hip >> in >> tight pants, and is prone to flipping back due to the higher center of >> gravity. If Apple had removed the home button and shrunk all the bezels >> around the 5.5" screen, I would have been overjoyed. The 5.5" screen is >> 4.75" tall. If Apple shrunk the bezels around this size screen, the phone >> would be shorter than the iPhone 8, which is 5.45" tall. Can you imagine >> the >> Plus sized iPhone being shorter than the iPhone 8? That would be awesome. >> >> Apple tried to split the difference between the 7 and 7 Plus, but for a >> lot >> of Plus owners it feels like a step backwards. If Apple had shrunk the >> bezels on the 4.7" and 5.5" phones, everyone would have been happy. A lot >> of >> 4.7" owners would have upgraded to the 5.5" phone, but this would have >> been >> offset by 4.0" SE owners upgrading to the 4.7" phone. >> >> If Apple had simply shrunk the bezels on their screens, one-handed use >> would >> have been possible on the 4.7" phone and easier on a 5.5" screen than the >> current tall 5.8" screen. I thought the benefit of a narrow phone was >> that >> it was easier to use one-handed? If I need to use two hands, I might as >> well >> get the benefit of a wider screen. >> >> >> >> >> Now that Apple has started down the road of tall narrow screens, I'm not >> so >> sure that the rumored "X Plus" next year is going be the phone that I >> want. >> It'll probably be an improvement over the current 5.8" X, but it's not >> going >> to be the small-bezel 5.5" screen that I want. There's no way that Apple >> could make the X Plus screen smaller than the X. That means that any X >> Plus >> screen is probably going to be even taller and harder to use. Apple will >> probably make an X Plus phone that is no shorter in height than the 8 >> Plus >> or maybe even slightly taller. Again, not what I want. Height is the >> worst >> thing about the current Plus. >> >> I still think that the iPhone X is the best phone on the market, bar >> none. >> It has the best screen quality, and I'm seriously wanting that optical 2x >> camera lens with optical image stabilization. Also, as a runner who can >> never get TouchID to work after a sweaty summer run, to me FaceID looks >> like >> a Godsend. I just wish that Apple had shrunk the bodies around the >> screens >> and not grown the screens to fill the bodies. >> >> >> Original Article at: >> https://apple.news/AmgzDuT9GSQub3tU-YyzeqA >> >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >> list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. 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