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To: sylvester80 who wrote (21700)	9/10/2012 9:02:06 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 32680

Given the quote below, I trust that Samsung considers a large phone screen as "trade dress" and if Apple copies that, it will be a clear violation. See, the Galaxy S III’s 4.8-inch screen is truly that much of an improvement over the iPhone’s 3.5-inch display it made as strong and positive an impression on me as every other Thing I Love, combined. The S III is probably about as big as a phone can be without getting clumsy and silly, like the Galaxy Note. As is, the added bulk brings some unavoidable drawbacks. The S III periscopes slightly out of the top of my shirt pocket, whereas my iPhone 4S disappears inside. The Samsung’s larger dimensions also mean that I can rarely operate it one-handed, even with my big, beefy, he-manly mitts. The iPhone’s screen falls almost completely under the sweep of the thumb of the hand I’m holding it in. But a larger screen makes any phone a much better device in so many ways. It feels like a great compromise between a phone and a tablet. Email and webpages are easier to read. I almost never bothered with the Kindle app on my iPhone, but on a 4.8-inch screen, an ebook reader seems much more practical. Movies and TV shows are more fun to watch. The bigger screen also means that an onscreen keyboard is larger and less cramped, so my typing is faster and more accurate. The big screen makes the S III a much, much better car computer. Maps and driving directions are big, bold, and clear, and the controls for my music player are big targets that I can see and hit easily without shifting my focus from the road. My iPhone now seems to vanish into my peripheral vision, even though it’s now back in the same car dock in the same location it’s sat for many years. I’m glad that the next iPhone will have a larger screen (barring a stunning repudiation of mounds of evidence in that direction). The aforementioned evidence is pointing to a longer widescreen aspect ratio, instead of a more tablet-scale shape and form. Let’s see how that plays out. In 2007, a 3.5-inch multitouch smartphone was a breakthrough. In 2012, it feels like a party favor. Larger devices like the S III are more relevant to the new world of content that the original iPhone helped to encourage. The fact that each of Apple’s competitors are choosing large screens for their flagships, and that small screens have been banished to the budget lines, demonstrates how clearly the public has endorsed this evolution.