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BY EVAN THOMAS ANCHOR ALLIE SPILLYARDS Size matters, at least when it comes to cell phones. A new study finds the overwhelming majority of consumers want larger screens on their smartphones. Marketwatch cites the study by Strategy Analytics. It says nearly 90 percent of consumers would go for a larger screen, somewhere between 4 and 4.5 inches wide. They also want high resolutions and slim devices, and men are more likely to look for a larger screen than women. GottaBeMobile points out the iPhone is already two for three on the list of desired phone attributes. "The fact that the iPhone has two of the top three features users want accounts for its popularity. Users want a larger screen and identified that as their most desired feature because that's the one feature they don't have." Intomobile wonders if it's time for the iPhone to play catch-up. "It's kind of ridiculous when you think about it, that for half a decade Apple has stuck to the 3.5 inch form factor. That's more than an inch smaller than most of the superphones that are going to come out over the next few months." But Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet prefers that size. Any larger than that, he says, and things get unwieldy. That's exactly what The Verge found when it first tried out the Droid Razr, an Android phone with a screen right in the preferred range. "The Razr's 4.3-inch screen, and the huge bezel around it, makes it hard to use one-handed. Compared to the iPhone, it's a giant monster." But there would <b>...</b> |
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