If Apple wants the iPhone to continue to be competitive with devices running Android, it needs to increase the size of the iPhone's screen. Upstream component suppliers say that Apple's manufacturing partners in Asia have begun testing their production lines, and everything points to a small bump in the size of the iPhone's display.
When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, its 3.5-inch display was outrageously big. It has since been surpassed by the large displays on Android devices, many of which come in at 3.7, 4.0, 4.3, and even 4.8 inches. Holding the iPhone 4 (or any iPhone, for that matter) next to a device such as the Motorola Droid X, which has a 4.3-inch display, makes the iPhone's display look downright puny.
DigiTimes reports that the next Apple iPhone will have a screen that measures 4 inches across the diagonal, an increase of 0.5 inches.
What's not clear is how Apple will adjust application performance on a slightly larger screen. DigiTimes has not reported what resolution the larger display might have, nor whether it will be a Retina Display. Apple hasn't confirmed this report.
This balances out a bit the reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal from earlier this week that suggest Apple will be making a smaller iPhone Nano. The chief selling point of the iPhone Nano is that it will be less expensive when compared to the iPhone 4, iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple calls the next iPhone).
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