GotNoRice
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Why are phone manufacturers so afraid to bring an actual big-screen phone to the market? There seems to be a general belief that beyond a certain width, a phone won't easily fit into people's pockets anymore, and people won't want to buy them. Does anyone here actually agree with that logic?
I got a Note 2 back in 2012 and it was an amazing phone for me over the years. It was one of the first phones on the market with a 5.5" screen. I never imagined that phones would have such a difficult time getting past that size, a few inching up to 5.7", 5.8" etc but no more. I would have thought that by now most phones would be in the 6"-7" range. Time after time I passed up the chance to upgrade my Note 2 because using a phone for so long and then upgrading to a phone with basically the same size screen is fucking lame.
A few days ago my Note 2 finally up and died for no apparent reason. I went and picked up a Galaxy S8+. I was very excited to see a phone with a 6.2" screen but a bit less excited when I realized the clunky BS they did in order to make that screen size work. It has the lame edge screen so that they can mostly get rid of the bezel. They also went with a cringe-worthy non-standard aspect ratio of IIRC 18.5:9 instead of 16:9. As a result, even with a 6.2" screen, the phone is no more wide than any other phone, only slightly longer. First thing the saleswomen says to me while I am looking at the cases is to be careful because some of the cases might make the phone too big to fit in my pocket
In most cases I have no problems fitting an 8" tablet in my pocket, so what am I missing here? I can understand why mainstream phones don't have massive screens, but out of all the phones that are specifically marketed as having bigger screens, surely there is a market for one that actually has a big screen? No?
I got a Note 2 back in 2012 and it was an amazing phone for me over the years. It was one of the first phones on the market with a 5.5" screen. I never imagined that phones would have such a difficult time getting past that size, a few inching up to 5.7", 5.8" etc but no more. I would have thought that by now most phones would be in the 6"-7" range. Time after time I passed up the chance to upgrade my Note 2 because using a phone for so long and then upgrading to a phone with basically the same size screen is fucking lame.
A few days ago my Note 2 finally up and died for no apparent reason. I went and picked up a Galaxy S8+. I was very excited to see a phone with a 6.2" screen but a bit less excited when I realized the clunky BS they did in order to make that screen size work. It has the lame edge screen so that they can mostly get rid of the bezel. They also went with a cringe-worthy non-standard aspect ratio of IIRC 18.5:9 instead of 16:9. As a result, even with a 6.2" screen, the phone is no more wide than any other phone, only slightly longer. First thing the saleswomen says to me while I am looking at the cases is to be careful because some of the cases might make the phone too big to fit in my pocket
In most cases I have no problems fitting an 8" tablet in my pocket, so what am I missing here? I can understand why mainstream phones don't have massive screens, but out of all the phones that are specifically marketed as having bigger screens, surely there is a market for one that actually has a big screen? No?