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My jottings on Apple and large screen iPhones
tdenson
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This is really an open letter to Swordman and his continual harping on about the fact that Tim Cook said Apple would do large screen iPhones when the time was right, so in Swordsman's words (something like) "it better be good".
Well, the time is right. The initial sales seem to indicate that the market is ripe for larger screens and Apple are sweeping all before them with the new phones. But why wait until now ? A couple of observations -
I have been using the 4.7" iPhone 6 for the last few days and (surprise, surprise you say!) am very impressed by it.
Firstly, they have produced a very thin and relatively lightweight product that feels smaller in the hand than it really is.
Secondly, the issue of one handed operation (yes that old chestnut). Apple in their inimitable style have come up with a novel way of handling this by what they call "reachability". If you double tap (but not click) the home button it scrolls the top of the screen down halfway to make it "reachable". This is rather neat, but only really practical because of the fingerprint reader which turns the home button into a multifunction button.
So, as well as the fact that the market is now good and ready for a large screen phone (thanks Samsung et al for educating the market), the technology is also available for a slick implementation, both in form factor and UI.
Well, the time is right. The initial sales seem to indicate that the market is ripe for larger screens and Apple are sweeping all before them with the new phones. But why wait until now ? A couple of observations -
I have been using the 4.7" iPhone 6 for the last few days and (surprise, surprise you say!) am very impressed by it.
Firstly, they have produced a very thin and relatively lightweight product that feels smaller in the hand than it really is.
Secondly, the issue of one handed operation (yes that old chestnut). Apple in their inimitable style have come up with a novel way of handling this by what they call "reachability". If you double tap (but not click) the home button it scrolls the top of the screen down halfway to make it "reachable". This is rather neat, but only really practical because of the fingerprint reader which turns the home button into a multifunction button.
So, as well as the fact that the market is now good and ready for a large screen phone (thanks Samsung et al for educating the market), the technology is also available for a slick implementation, both in form factor and UI.
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I'm not saying they were necessarily the first, but as ever they have come up with an elegant solution.
Incidentally, (and genuine curiosity) what is Samsung's approach ?
This is Samsungs approach on the note 3, think LG have there own version for the G3 as well. Never tried it so no idea if its effect or not
http://www.phonearena.com/news/LG-G3-keyboard-adjusts-its-size-while-learning-how-you-type_id56564 LGs approach
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-shrink-galaxy-note-3-s-display samsungs
The Samsung approach looks pretty neat. Not sure why the LG feature is necessarily to do with large phones, surely it would come into its own on smaller phones ?
im sure could be used on either but if it adjusts to take into account the stretch and the mistakes from that , then it would be a nice solution.
like I say not tried either or the Iphone 6s version so no idea how good any of them are. Plus ive fairly big hands so probably wouldnt need it on any of them
Just looking at the LG apparently theres an option to have a smaller keyboard in the settings called one handed, that shrinks it down across the full phone so dailer , sms browser etc.
Apple in their inimitable style have looked at what other people have done and told their customers that they have designed a totally novel way of handling this by what they call "reachability". If you double tap (but not click) the home button it scrolls the top of the screen down halfway to make it "reachable". In the usual way they would expect their buyers to not realise that other "neat" solutions have been in place elsewhere for some time.
So the market is now good and ready for apple to bow to customer requests for a large screen phone (thanks Samsung et al for educating the market) and replicate the technology that has also been available for a slick implementation, both in form factor and UI, for some time. Its now time for apple to step in and claim they invented large screen, usability and the concept of putting a sink in the kitchen.
Have I got that right now ?
No.
Despite Samsung having what I called a neat solution (not quite as neat as Apple's though:)) it is a non-starter for me as I won't touch Samsung phones because of their bloatware and insistence on distorting vanilla Android.
And you know I won’t touch Apple phones because they don’t run any form of Android. Samsung do add some good functionality to large screen phones - large screen being Note class, no one calls a 4,7" phone large screened in 2014 – they have had plenty of practice in the past 3 years. Lets see how Apple iterate on there devices. They do have a problem with iOS though. It is still using the same design as iOS 1. A grid of icons. This is just a waste but then again I can’t see how Apple could improve without having Android style home screens which will never happen.
Simple, use two hands.
The samsung approach, looks a lot slicker than the apple approach to be honest.
Each to his own. I happen to like the "boring" predictability of an IOS home screen and UI. Know exactly what to do when I pick up somebody else's phone to help them. Android always has me stumbling for a few moments until I work out what's going on. Despite the apparent wizziness of Android, when it comes down to the features I really want and need the Apple implementation for me is generally preferable. In fact with IOS 8 I can't think of a single Android feature I now prefer, but there are a few IOS ones which are head and shoulders above the nearest Android equivalents.
No.
In particular the bit in bold.
The bit in bold is entirely in your head, and is one of those things that doesn't magically become true just because it gets repeated a lot.
It's really just a myth that a lot of people, yourself included it seems, seem to think is actually true.
If you can post one quote from Apple making any such claim, I'll happily stand corrected. But I think we all know that's not going to happen.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It might be boring, but it's still probably the most effective way to access stuff on your phone. Over 200 apps opened with just two taps.
Having said that, I still don't know why the limit the folders to nine apps per page.
kinda feel sorry for them really because they're left with the dregs of the innovation as anything remotely similar to samsungs implementation will lead to them being sued.
How easy is it to accidentally click rather than tap?
As CP says, not that easy. It's probably because one is accustomed to a light touch on the button for fingerprint recognition.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByPEyd_CQAA4XF7.jpg
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/the-iphone-6-plus-gets-bent/
For goodness sake calico did you not see the smiley at the end ????
Sometimes you are so keen to jump in and protect apples honour you forget that occasionally posts are in jest !!!
Yes, like the new predictive keyboard with iOS 8 (can't think where I have seen one of those before).
The implementation is poor on the iPad. If I am typing more than a few lines what often happens now is the text drops below the predictive options so you can't see what on earth you're typing and there's no way to scroll it up any further.
So, if I have a folder with 90 apps in it and the app I want is in the middle of the list, how can I get to that and open said app in 2 taps?