Samsung might be supplying Huawei, Xiaomi and Vivo with curved displays

downgrading to a smaller screen is like from heaven to hell; you dont know why you are putting up with the wrath of Satan when you could be enjoying much finer things in life with the gods.

I am a huge Xiaomi fan, love my Meizu tho.

Flyme and MIUI aren’t all that different to tell you the truth. In fact Flyme has some features I actually prefer over MIUI.

Actually I had a MX4 for a while and you can turn off the smart bar and just navigate by swiping up from the home button for back (on the new Meizus you just soft tap the home button I believe for back). You can swipe up anywhere else to bring up multitasking. That setup actually works quite nicely. Miss the swipe up to wake of the MX4 but at the end of the day I prefer MIUI more with their stock apps and the iOS look of the UI.

Yeah I have a Mi Note as I was waiting for the Mi5 and didn’t want to wait any longer. Whilst on one hand it feels like the Mi Note is way too big for my hand, on the other I may end up not being able to cope with the small screen size. I hope the Mi Note gets the same treatment in terms of specs and that it either keeps the same bezel/screen to body ratio or gets smaller bezels. I feel the Mi5 bezels are pretty big.

Really struggling with storage atm:

4GB Apps

3GB Pictures/Videos

3GB Audio

1GB Cached Data + Other files

Just under 2GB/16GB left…

It’s not. And it’s not downgrading.

I’m using Moto X (first generation, 4.7 inch) and switch to iphon 5s (because the size, 4inch). I have no problem the size, but have problem with the OS.

I admire your ability to enjoy small screens.

You have problems with the Android OS?

Its pretty much been confirmed it doesn’t. But you never know maybe they will make a Pro 6 mini.

I love big (real) phones, I can use my 5.5 inch comfortably all day long, the only pain I ever experience is if I run out of battery.

A real phone is one that is primarily used one-handed. Else it is a phablet … rather simple definitions, it’s not hard to get them confused…

You are you, primarily is “most people”. Anything more than 140x70mm is hardly used one – handed and if we’re to be frank the 130x65mm limit would be more apt. I.e. the difference between iphone 5s and 6 (which is why apple’s studies showed the need of one handed mode on iPhone 6, but not on 5s)…

Apple’s internal studies are “most people”

Also a studies of Ars technica posted a couple of years back is “most people” (when I’d find the link, I’ll post it here).

You know anecdotes don’t matter in science. Phablets are great btw, the only evolution of smartphones that made sense. My main phone is a phablet too, and I call it a phone too, of course it’s not a real phone…

No I don’t, I’ve actually studied linguistics for a year, most people here didn’t, I’m not offering you an opinion merely what the existence of the world “phablet” means to the word “phone” (rather than smartphone to be frank).

The word “phone” is capped even though its initial view was that of “a device making calls”. The definition that it is “the device that it makes calls” is linguistically obsolete because of how broad it became, instead it got replaced by “handheld devices”. How big of a handheld device? Big enough to not be a “phone tablet”. What’s a phone-tablet? “A handheld tablet that makes calls”. Again I’m giving you the linguistically correct definitions not the ones of the dictionary as those often contradict each other.

The only difference between two handheld devices btw is usability. A tablet is used two handed, a phone one-handed simple enough definitions. It’s like telling me that there is no object, or a subject in most sentences because people are not aware of using them when they’re talking, or because their dictionary definition mostly used for those terms is the relevant one…

I’ll tell you of it once again, this one slowly. Using a bigger device does not spontaneously make your hand bigger. Even if you use it one handed (your phone) it’s mostly because you move your palm quite and even then not a lot of the screen is reachable. Such (up and down movement) is often done with the help of the 2nd hand.

There is a reason Apple returns to 4 inches, it’s a more anatomically correct size even though it sucks for content consumption (people would feel the difference to its older brothers)…

Well Apple seems to think that nobody is , Samsung too, by making S7 almost as small as S4 (btw I don’t support Apple’s move, make a phone smaller by minimizing the bezels and by implementing palm rejection tech, not by minimizing the one thing that gives usability to a phone, its screen).

Of course they make big phones (a.k.a. phablets), they’re incredibly useful. My main device is a phablet.

I was talking about linguistics here. There are the real phones and then there aew faux phones, people like the faux phones, there’s a niche who like real phones (because they are wilful) but they would soon eclipse. Good to have a fast to operate device, but better to have one that is actually useful.

Of course the best is to have both (that’s what Samsung’s trying to do by making Edge so incredibly small for a 5.5 incher, it’s almost as wide as S5 despite having 4 inches over it).

No they’re not, for the simple reason that a linguistically useful definition is one that does not contradict itself. If there is any difference between a tablet and a phone it should be size, therefore a cut-off size should be found.

According to Apple it’s somewhere around 4.5 and 4.7 inches (I would say 130x65mm is more specific size as it measures actual dimensions of the device).

The reason that I insist referencing Apple is because they’re the only ones bothering to make usability tests and sometimes even publish their results. They’re some of the few companies doing real science (instead of mere engineering) … anyway.

Iphone 5s and below (most probably 5se too) lack one-handed mode, iphone 6 and up have it, that is because according to their studies somewhere in between exists a cut-off point. BTW Miui does that too with setting an upper limit at 4 inches for its one-handed mode (even though I suspect the limit is closer to 4.5-4.7 inches depending on bezels’ … abundance).

I refer to sizes of 5 inches and up as “faux” because they are what we used to call phablets (and what we’d still call phablets if “real phones” were around). That’s the linguistically sound way of doing things.

BTW I’ve referred multiple times to the fact that I’m not a big fan of real phones, they’re on their way out for a reason. A tablet of any size is a more useful size, especially if they found ways to make it more pocketable. So the closer we are to tablet sizes the better for usefulness…