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#2Even so, the benefits vastly outweigh the downsides.
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#3The elephant in the room is that unlike on android phones, there is no hardware 'back' button on iPhone. Where is it instead (by convention)? The top left corner of the screen, ie, the most unreachable place on the new iPhone. I'm still amazed this thing was produced by Apple given that oversight.
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#4502, or is that just me?
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#7Dustin neglects in either post to mention what size his hands are. Subjectively some people will like the new size for this reason, and as he points out others will not. I personally like the format but I have abnormally large hands (I can palm a basketball). His thoughts on hand placement are spot on though.
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#8I would just like to point out that this is a highly subjective argument. The iPhone 5 might be too large for Dustin's hand, but I'm quite comfortable using a 4.3 or even 4.5 inch phone. I naturally hold phones with the bottom right corner in pushing the bottom of my hand like the second image on the page, and my hand quite naturally wraps a phone up to ~4.5". For me, emphasis me, any phone over 4.5 becomes a problem because my index finger will have a hard time hitting a power switch on the top right of the phone, but overall I'm able to reach any point of the screen with my thumb and small muscle movements in my hand. But again, this is all subjective to the size of my hand.
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#9I don't think he would be so quick to say it's worth the extra screen space if he weren't left-handed. Reaching the back button with only your right hand, even on the 3.5" screen is difficult. After switching to an iPhone 4s earlier this year I found that to be the major failing of the device:
http://dmaurolizer.com/post/18478902007/ioss-major-flaw-reac...
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#10The elephant in the room is that unlike on android phones, there is no hardware 'back' button on iPhone. Where is it instead (by convention)? The top left corner of the screen, ie, the most unreachable place on the new iPhone. I'm still amazed this thing was produced by Apple given that oversight.
You can swipe right to get back in Music app and a few more apps. Apple also considered the use of the "Home" button for some "back" actions — back to home screen, back to a recent opened app.