Bigger iPhones in 2014?

Speculators have already moved on to what the company will do next with its mobile phone that Apple will increase the iPhone screen size from 4 inches to 4.5 or 5 inches next year.

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I think the only read trade off will be how Apple will have to deal with resolution. They were going on and on about their "Retina" display and now their iPhone has one of the lowest PPIs on the market. If they keep the resolution the same and make the screen larger (not just longer) the PPI will drop even lower and it will be destroyed by competitors 1080p screens as the current iPhone display is already.

If they change the resolution again they will have problems with their apps due to the way iOS is and would probably use some other non-standard resolution.

The only trade off's that need to be figured out by Apple is how the display will become low quality non-retina if they just go larger, or how they will have to deal with another cumbersome resolution. They put themselves in a corner and now have to figure out how to get out of it to compete and they try to spin this off as "Our competitors have signification trade offs for their large screen phones" but never say or mention what those trade offs are.

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I love iOS7. It takes lots of courage to change the legacy iOS look and feel and give it a fresh new look. Now iOS is ready for multiple colored devices. I know many people did not like, but I liked new iOS7 a lot.

There were a couple of functional improvements, like the zoomed levels, the control panel, and the new task manager, but they're offset by the barely legible font, (actually increased from the initial nearly invisible version), the gratuitous and obscuring transparency, and the abandonment of distinctions between buttons and labels.