On the new "Android" screens will again be small

You'll laugh, but until Apple Storm because she stubbornly does not increase the iPhone to Lopatnikov size Samsung and "Googley daughter» Motorola busy release smartphones with screens that are close in size to the iPhone 5.

Samsung has already released Galaxy S4 miniAnd on the way - G4 Zoom 16 megapixel camera. Although both devices screens almost comparable with a fifth iPhones permit them only 960 × 540 pixels, which is not only smaller in comparison with the "five", but even with the iPhone 4, released in 2010.

Google also has had an impact on the "Motorola": if before it was in the power of an unwritten rule "The more, the better", but now the manufacturer of a new mantra: "The more, the better." :) According to the company, on new models of smart phones (with reduced screens) they worked the last eight months, and reviews - entirely positive. "Some like big screens, but many people want something" right ", - said on this occasion the steering of design in Motorola Jim Wicks. - I think this is the "right" is very important, so we do not want to disappoint anybody. "

However, while Android-manufacturers are hesitant to finally admit that so actively promoted their "ceiling" - niche products. This is evidenced by at least the characteristics of mini-versions samsungovskih "Galaxies". With the Galaxy S3 mini, which was released after the iPhone 5 was the same story: although a purse the acquisition will be much easier, but the performance, features and quality it big blow. The Western media even wonder why the Galaxy S3 mini took its name the letter «S», which is used to samsungovskih smartphones kind of super sign.

Apple knows best

While Android-producers of the nails to one bank of the hole, then another, talking about the size of "Mobile» Apple screens shows a reinforced concrete belief in their rightness. All questions Tim Cook does not tire of repeating: "It is clear that people are looking at the size. But still they are interested in the proper display of color, white balance, the degree of reflectivity, long battery life, durability of the display. " The big screens, according to the general director of Apple, still too many compromises.

Although the screens constantly to their computers Apple has experimented in the development of smartphones the company has shown a completely different approach. And it is not because the company does not know how to make the device with a large screen. Apple's first handheld, Newton MessagePad, was equipped with a 5.2-inch display, were further models screen 4.5, and even 6.1 inches, while Steve Jobs did not close the handheld project, returning to the company in 1998.

It is noteworthy that eight years later, Samsung with Microsoft to try to launch Tablet PC, and results Sales were so bad that business indicators outright novelty even jump on nearly a decade of Newton MessagePad 2000.

9 years later, after the "dead» MessagePad, Apple has returned to full-screen handheld devices, releasing a 3.5-inch iPhone. After another 3 years I saw the light of the 9.7-inch iPad, and a year ago, the company introduced the iPhone 5 with screen sizes 4 "and 7.9-inch iPad mini.

Apple cares about apps

New iOS-devices are designed to work organically with existing applications without requiring (or almost does not require) developers to any efforts to fit the programs under the new screens.

The close relationship between the newly made "iron» Apple ecosystem of applications and is significantly different from that offer Android-producers: knocks to sense a variety of sizes and resolutions screens of smartphones, tablets and lampshades, which by and large are not optimized for mobile or tablet application.

As a result, on the Android platform observed senseless use of the extra screen space when using applications on Android-tablet and extra large smartphones. Not so long ago Phil Schiller demonstrated TripAdvisor app - its version of the smartphone, stretched on the Android-tablet screen, and a version optimized for iPad. As they say, the difference - the earth and sky.

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