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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Apple in the past tends to take the approach that as long as they focus on the ergonomics, everything else takes care of itself. The current iPhone is about as big as you can have and use it one handed. The original iPhone, was smaller of course.
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The problem I see, ergonomic side with the iphone, is that they've made the home button a hallmark (especially now with the touch id) and, for aesthetic reasons, the bezel above the screen is as large as the bezel below (where the button is housed), so this makes for a lot of bezel. When you go past 4 inches, that starts to stretch a lot; a 4.7 iphone might be as tall as some 5.2" or even 5.5" android phones that use on screen buttons and have minimal bezels, like the G3. A large number of android phones have a screen ratio in excess of 70% (with the LG G3, missing from the picture below, topping it at 76.4%) whereas the iphone is barely over 60%. That means that android manufacturers can offer larger screen while keeping the overall phone size within reason.
Of course, apple could change the button (make it a lozenge, a la Samsung - but that won't happen), or make the bezels asymmetric, but I don't see that happening either, the OCD crowd would go berserk.