{"id":9204,"date":"2014-07-22T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2014-07-22T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:49:35","slug":"why-smartphone-screens-are-getting-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/why-smartphone-screens-are-getting-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Smartphone Screens Are Getting Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2455169\/why-smartphone-screens-are-getting-bigger-specs-reveal-a-surprising-story.html\">Ben Taylor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2455169\/why-smartphone-screens-are-getting-bigger-specs-reveal-a-surprising-story.html\"><p>As smartphones become our <em>primary <\/em>devices, doing the jobs once held by computers and even televisions, we need a product that can change, like a chameleon, to serve all of these functions.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2010, the extra real estate was unnecessary. After all, we were using phones mostly for making calls, listening to music, or doing a bit of light web-browsing on bad mobile interfaces, making mental notes to do our real work when we got back to our computers.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the web&mdash;from site interfaces to television to native apps&mdash;is often designed primarily for the mobile format. The smartphone is no longer just a phone, but a hybrid of devices&mdash;and increasingly, the most common way to interact with the world. A bigger screen allows a mobile device to play all of these roles at once.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m still annoyed at having to <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/iphone-5-size\/\">hand-shimmy<\/a>, but it seems hard to imagine going back to a 3.5-inch screen after using a 4-inch iPhone 5s. I&rsquo;m not sure yet whether a phone that&rsquo;s between the size of a 5s and an <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/my-ipad-mini-retina\/\">iPad mini<\/a> would be perfect or too large for my pockets and hands.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Taylor: As smartphones become our primary devices, doing the jobs once held by computers and even televisions, we need a product that can change, like a chameleon, to serve all of these functions. Before 2010, the extra real estate was unnecessary. After all, we were using phones mostly for making calls, listening to music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,38,949,31,85,221,42],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-htc","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-nokia","tag-samsung"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}