Gizmodo: Why does the iPhone have a 3.5-inch screen? Why do larger smartphones feel awkward on your hand? Dustin Curtis has an answer, and I think it is spot on.
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This guy has really stumpy thumbs. I can reach the other end of my Galaxy S 2 with my thumb when holding it left handed.
I thought it was some technical or legal reason turns out... fail logic.
LOL FAIL even I can reach... even though my hands aren't huge ... Geez... wtf
the main reason apple did this is too lower their costs and still charge us a boatload of money
lol pulled this comment from that site and it sums up the situation pretty well
"Until a 4+ inch iPhone screen appears, and then adoring iFans will line up to call it revolutionary, exciting, even magical. And when those outside the Reality Distortion Field point out that other manufacturers did it first and Apple was only catching up to the competition, they'll say "yeah but Apple was the one who finally got it right". Presumably, by putting an Apple logo on the back.
The fact is, large screen phones sell, and sell in large numbers. The market has spoken, people want big screens and are willing to pay for them. Manufacturers are competing directly on screen size, and so far bigger has proven to be better. Surely there's an upper limit to that, where a phone simply becomes too large to make the extra screen worth it, but we haven't reached that point yet. The market has responded enthusiastically to each new iteration in screen size, and made smaller screens suffer by comparison.
Calling 3.5 inches "the ideal size" is an opinion, based on one man's opinion and the company he gave orders to. Millions of customers have a differing opinion, and pay good money to get what he said they'd never want. "