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Re: Are Android phones too big?

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RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the "I can't sit down" department:
> Title: Are Android phones too big?
> Author: info@quinstreet.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0500
> Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/are-android-phones-too-big-140221100509.html
> 
> ITworld: I have considered switching to Android a number of times,
> particularly given Apple's poor icon design choices in iOS 7

I would certainly argue "no" on this issue.  I have a Galaxy Tab II instead of an
Android phone specifically because they're too small to do much of anything on 
(a 4-5" screen is pretty dreadful with no keyboard).  Smartphones have fixed the 
problematic tendency we were seeing for phones to shrink and shrink and shrink
until we were worrying about losing them in our ear canals, and until the display
and input are detached from the size of the phone, the larger size is a good thing.

That said, give me some contact lenses that show me my display (over bluetooth, of 
course) and a decent wrist-top keyboard (or other similarly useful portable input
solution) and I'd be okay with seeing them shrink quite a ways to the point of
not even needing pockets to carry them (hell, build it right into the keyboard
for all I care).  As long as the touch screen is the be all and end all for I/O,
however, it should be as big as it can while still being carryable in cargo pockets.

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Are Android phones too big? RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 09:52 +0000
  Re: Are Android phones too big? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-02-25 10:00 +0000
    Re: Are Android phones too big? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-25 05:58 -0800
      Re: Are Android phones too big? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-02-25 14:47 +0000
        Re: Are Android phones too big? Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-02-26 10:43 +0000
          Re: Are Android phones too big? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-26 06:26 -0800
            Re: Are Android phones too big? Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:11 +0000
              Re: Are Android phones too big? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-27 06:35 -0800
                Re: Are Android phones too big? Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-02-28 09:56 +0000
          Re: Are Android phones too big? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-02-26 15:59 +0000
          Re: Are Android phones too big? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-27 06:38 -0800
    Re: Are Android phones too big? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 14:55 +0000
      Re: Are Android phones too big? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-02-25 17:13 +0000
        Re: Are Android phones too big? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 20:12 +0000
          Re: Are Android phones too big? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-02-25 22:43 +0000
            Re: Are Android phones too big? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 19:28 +0000
  Re: Are Android phones too big? cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-25 20:22 +0000
  Re: Are Android phones too big? "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 23:33 +0100

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