Apple testing various iPhablet sizes up to 6-inches

4. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)

Sorry but 4.8" is NOT considered as phablet... The Dell "Streak" started the phablet era at 5"... Samsung perfected the marketing of it at 5.3"... So anything under 5" is just a large phone... Apple even joined that category late.

23. HansGoneInsane (unregistered)

I don't mind Apple bringing a larger screen size to the market, but I hope they don't make a phablet. Lets be honest: A phablet is not a phone anymore. Why do you never see someone actually making a call with such a device in the respective advertisements? Because holding such a big device to once ear looks stupid. Its like humans evolve back to the 80s or early 90s. Let a phone be a phone (smartphone of course) with a size that fits good in once pocket and let a small tablet be a small tablet that is better for long reading. Just my opinion of course.

43. ProblemSolver15 (Posts: 356; Member since: 14 Jun 2010)

My Note 2 fits fairly well in my hand, and holding it up to my face proves to be well worth its size. Quite honestly, I love my Note and I'd gladly fork over the money for the Note 3, I just don't see much reason to do so when my current handset has proven to be a workhorse. Think I'm going to look into the G2 just to be 'different', I guess you could say. I see no shame in swapping between the 2 every couple months. We're all phone and gadget fanatics, that's why we're here. We want the latest version of whatever device or software is out and we will pay hard-earned money to do so. This is just fun for me guys.

51. Piotrek007 (Posts: 112; Member since: 07 Dec 2010)

Don't tell me you never saw people using Galaxy Note (any) and making a call with it !!

37. Alex123 (Posts: 241; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)

Agreed. Apple falls behind the others.

52. Supaheight (Posts: 66; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)

fo apple 4.5 is

33. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)

You're right it will look like just another iphone again and if it will be a iphablet it would be the most expensive phone ever.

11. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)

Imagine the number of applications that would be optimized to actually look good in a 6inch screen!!! As opposed to scaled up smartphone apps...

20. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)

If you call a black screen at the top and the bottom as "optimized"

24. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)

If Apple does release a 6in iPhone, you can bet that its either going to run iPad apps and/or its going to gets its own category of applications. Black bars at the top and bottom are temporary, but scaled-up smartphone apps on Android "phablets" are not going to change :/

30. Whateverman (Posts: 3284; Member since: 17 May 2009)

I have a Note 2 and if apps are scaled up... I can't tell! They all look GREAT! Why the hate?

32. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)

I guess we all have our own tolerance levels, nothing wrong with that. I had a Note II and that was one of the biggest reasons why I had to sell. I had a huge powerful device with a 5.5 inch screen and yet I was running the same exact apps as other weak smartphones out there, homescreen was still 4x4 apps/widget (WTF? Why?), and the pull-down menu on the Note II is exactly the same as the S3; you'd think that with a bigger screen you'd be able to see more notifications...So instead of making good use of space a lot of things (not everything though) is stretched and magnified.

If I'm going to carry around a huge ass phone, I want to see a lot more content and not a magnified OS...The Note II also lacked good Spen document editing apps (I tried many including S Note [which oddly enough was the worst], Acrobat Reader, Lecture Notes, etc) and none were up to par.

A good "phablet" needs to be perfectly optimized for its size. Otherwise its just a huge ass phone. That's why for me personally its a tablet combined with 4-4.8 inch phone, no more phablets

40. Whateverman (Posts: 3284; Member since: 17 May 2009)

Lol, I'm coming from a Razr, so the notification screen is completly different for me. The Razr didn't have all of the quick toggles but yeah. I guess that would be a negative. I will admit, the only app I've seen look kinda weird on was Ruzzle. Everything else, fantastic.

All I know, is that Note 3 is the one to beat right now. If Apple can put something compelling together, I would give it a shot, but it has to have a stylus.

49. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)

The Note 3 is looking like a killer device, but the Note 2 for content creation and document editing was a let down. For example, if you want to make a simple 8.5 x 11 flyer or edit a powerpoint via S Note, you can't because everything you export from S Note will essentially look like a screenshot.

I needed more powerful tools from the Note 3 and not the cute touchwizzy features like action memo and scrapbooking. I'm not saying the Note 3 is bad device, but the S pen is just not powerful enough to justify the size tradeoff. I do miss jotting down notes on the go though.

Its kinda funny but owning the Note 2 is what convinced me to buy an iPad 5/iPad mini 2 this year (or maybe Galaxy Tab). Lots of powerful iOS exclusive apps

-Notability
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmBRBqs9ME
-Penultimate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvlPVsXoZuk

44. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)

if you have an iPad and and iPad mini... do you honestly think would be nice to cramp it inside a smaller device...

18. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)

It'll just translate into "another row" of uselessness .... iL∅L

28. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)

How many icons are on the iPad? Don't see a slightly larger phone changing that much.

34. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)

Imagine having a extra set of rows and still looks the same

14. lalalaman (Posts: 637; Member since: 19 Aug 2013)

I will call it iPhablet...its a perfect name....it will get ppls attention quick....they will thinks a something completely new is there....bt it will certainly b the screen size which will attract instead of pixels or processor

16. Commentator (Posts: 3722; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)

The iPhab?

At any rate, Steve Jobs is thrashing violently in his grave. If you listen closely when it's very quiet, you can make out a faint "COOOOOooooook!!!" on the wind.

19. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)

I thought dead people couldn't pass gas?

42. taikucing (unregistered)

iCopyAndroidPhablet

22. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

iPhone XL?

35. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)

iPhab is the perfect name and their still behind on massive screen display next thing we know they will patent the screen 6" saying no one else can't make that size screen