Over the past year the smartphone market has seen a trend of screen size increasing from around 3.2/3.5 inches to 4.3, 4.65 and as high as 5.3 inches in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note. The iPhone screen however, has remained at 3.5 inches since its debut in 2007. Many have speculated on the iPhone 5 from the size to the glass. There were reports that the charger port would even change to support other devices they may have to add into the iPhone. Mainly the LTE device. Most believe that the bigger screens are actually attributed to the LTE hardware and its size. The question is will Apple go bigger? As people well know Apple is very hardcore about their products and how they are internally made and the screen of course. Well I read that Apple could have a way to keep things pretty much the same but make a bigger screen. All iPhones have had a 3.5 inch display with 3:2 aspect ratio, and since the iPhone 4 they have had a resolution of 960 x 640. 3.7 isn’t really a significant enough bump to justify a change and the earlier mentioned 4.3 and 4.65 inch sizes force the overall device to be simply too big. All iPhones (and iPod touches) have had an aspect ratio of 3:2. Would Apple change the aspect ratio to increase the screen size while maintaining the same 326 ppi? What aspect ratio would need to be to hit that 4 inch mark? And most importantly how could app fragmentation be avoided? Many of these questions can be answered in theory but could they actually be put to the test? Hopefully Apple will make the 5 a 4 inch screen, in theory it can be done without sacrificing the Apple quality.
