I may be seeing things, but nearly every new computing platform at the Internet Telecom show was about 1.75 high.
Manufacturers are more than happy to oblige, since there's an incredible amount of money to be made.
Expect another increase soon. Customer service representatives can web chat with customers, surf web pages with them, talk to them over VoIP, and video is on the way. Automatic e-mail routing techniques now have more sense than most employees do in your average mailroom. Voice is starting to look like a too-obtrusive means of communicating over minor business matters. It's a waste of valuable real time , unless you send a WAV file attached to an e-mail.