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Showing posts with label screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screen. Show all posts
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2.7X
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“The difference in screen size from the iPhone 3GS, the standard iPhone available at the time, to the original iPad is a factor of 2.7 times — which turns out to be the exact same factor between the iPhone 6/6s and the iPad Pro.”This is a really interesting point to consider, given that the iPad Pro seems monsterous. At the same time, iPad mini especially and the iPad Air to some extent don’t feel that much larger than iPhone 6 Plus. So perhaps iPad Pro’s size factor is the inevitable outcome of our larger phones…
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Large Screen Optimizations
It's interesting to see Apple finally battle Android OEM's in the giant phone space.
To my perceptions, Apple's strategy to justifying the larger screen is to fit *more* of whatever content you're working with on the screen at once. This can be seen in the two columned landscape view. This can also be seen in the Messages app, for example, where contacts' photos are displayed. This is really smart, especially considering that the brain can't actually multitask. There is some argument for more than one window, but I'm not convinced of the user experience of that on a phone screen: A laptop, yes, a tablet, maybe, but not a phone.
On the other hand, Samsung and LG have opted for putting more apps on one screen as the justification. Samsung has opted for windowed apps on their Note devices, which are their truly "large" screen devices. This "true multitasking" is more reminiscent of traditional desktop operating systems, and thus sits better with the "windows types" as I refer to them. Sony and LG support certain apps working in small windows, but they are not nearly as well developed as Samsung's offering, and honestly I'm okay with that. LG and Samsung also support a split screen function, which I actually think works okay, though I argue that given proper app store support a la Apple, this split screen wouldn't be necessary.
Google, in partnership with Motorola, on the other hand (yes, I have three hands) seems to have made no justifications for the big screen. Stock Android 5.0 is as Lollipop on the Nexus 6 as it is on, say, the Nexus 4, 5, or 7. This is not the right strategy for a truly consumer device, but the argument could be made that the Nexus program has always, and still is, about developers and OEM's not consumers.
How do you want your large screen to be used? Do you even want a large screen phone? Let me know in the comments.
To my perceptions, Apple's strategy to justifying the larger screen is to fit *more* of whatever content you're working with on the screen at once. This can be seen in the two columned landscape view. This can also be seen in the Messages app, for example, where contacts' photos are displayed. This is really smart, especially considering that the brain can't actually multitask. There is some argument for more than one window, but I'm not convinced of the user experience of that on a phone screen: A laptop, yes, a tablet, maybe, but not a phone.
On the other hand, Samsung and LG have opted for putting more apps on one screen as the justification. Samsung has opted for windowed apps on their Note devices, which are their truly "large" screen devices. This "true multitasking" is more reminiscent of traditional desktop operating systems, and thus sits better with the "windows types" as I refer to them. Sony and LG support certain apps working in small windows, but they are not nearly as well developed as Samsung's offering, and honestly I'm okay with that. LG and Samsung also support a split screen function, which I actually think works okay, though I argue that given proper app store support a la Apple, this split screen wouldn't be necessary.
Google, in partnership with Motorola, on the other hand (yes, I have three hands) seems to have made no justifications for the big screen. Stock Android 5.0 is as Lollipop on the Nexus 6 as it is on, say, the Nexus 4, 5, or 7. This is not the right strategy for a truly consumer device, but the argument could be made that the Nexus program has always, and still is, about developers and OEM's not consumers.
How do you want your large screen to be used? Do you even want a large screen phone? Let me know in the comments.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Big phone, small tablet
I whipped this post up real quick as part of my daily journaling. Give it a read, and tell me how you like it.
iPad Mini 3 is barely an upgrade. Apple seems to know that the small tablet is giving way to the large phone, just like Google acknowledged at their Nexus announcement.
Then again, Google switching from the the Nexus 7 to the Nexus 9 could just be that the Nexus 6 isn't different enough from the Nexus 7 to still be able to sell them both.
That being said, I think that's a trend in the market overall, and we will see that reflected in sales numbers and new product announcements. Tablets are useful, but people won't use them if their phone is "good enough" for the task.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
iPad Mini 3 is barely an upgrade. Apple seems to know that the small tablet is giving way to the large phone, just like Google acknowledged at their Nexus announcement.
Then again, Google switching from the the Nexus 7 to the Nexus 9 could just be that the Nexus 6 isn't different enough from the Nexus 7 to still be able to sell them both.
That being said, I think that's a trend in the market overall, and we will see that reflected in sales numbers and new product announcements. Tablets are useful, but people won't use them if their phone is "good enough" for the task.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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