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Stumbling towards the ideal screen size
Here's a
story I wrote for NZ Business earlier this year on the
evolution in device screen sizes. The story doesn't carry my
byline.
...Kantar Worldpanel, another research company, points out, there’s a practical limit to smartphone size. Kantar says phone buyers gravitate to devices in the 4.7 to five inch range. It doesn’t matter how thin and light devices are, anything bigger than five inches can’t realistically fit in a pocket.Kantar reports that in 2013 the majority of people with phones smaller than 4.4 inches switched to a bigger device when they replaced their smartphone. Most of those who started with larger phones didn’t move up a size.
So there you have it, people have decided the ideal screen is more than 4.4 inches, less than five inches.
Stumbling towards the ideal mobile screen size — NZBusiness.
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