During The Vergecast last week, Timothy Collins called in to share an interesting theory on what a 4-inch iPhone screen could look like. In short, what if Apple made the screen taller? From 640×960 to 640×1152. Verge forum member “modilwar” fleshed the idea out some more and shared some example mockups of what the new screen could look like.<\/p>\n

It would mean the iPhone can maintain its 326 PPI ratio, as well as the fact that any apps which use a scrolling interface (Mail, Instapaper, Reeder, Tweetbot, Simplenote, Agenda, et al.) may need to do (nearly) nothing to accommodate the new screen. Because: when in portrait mode there would simply be a larger scroll view area; when in landscape mode, there would be the same vertical height as before, and horizontal elements would simply be spaced farther apart.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, I don’t know if we’ll ever see a 4-inch iPhone. Because, in addition to the how would it work for apps and what about the Retina display<\/em> argument, there is still the how comfortable and easy to use with one hand would it be<\/em> argument. And I think that a 3.5-inch screen is the sweet spot for the latter.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this is certainly one of the most interesting and compelling arguments I’ve seen on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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