[Nexus 6  General] nigelhealy:
I fear you might be right. Shame.

---------- Post added at 08:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:26 AM ----------

You might be predicting correctly but that actual state is total twaddle. Human hands can hold largely any size with both hands but already the N5 is a tad too big one handed.

My N4 I could hold it firmly in one hand touch all the screen with thumb, the N5 I can't really do that but just enough one-handed to dial a phone number, etc. I with N5 have to rest the phone (so not grasping it so its loose and can fall) on the fingers to allow the hand to move around and thumb to touch all the screen.

Any bigger and you're talking the act of making a phone call becomes 2-handed. It's not then really a phone, its usefulness is reduced and its just plain stupid idea.

Stupid ideas though succeed til the whole premise is punctured.

Where I see phablets matter is basically people who don't do anything serious, fun, or important away from their phone. They are not riding a bike or taking notes with the other hand, they don't separate functions like phone from display into phone+tablet separate devices.

So basically.... big children toys.... but it might happen....

The phone is your wirelesshub, it contains 4G, 3G,Wifi, Bluetooth, and it tethers to your handset BT, wearable, the Internet.

Your tablet is your main screen workhorse,you can see more, do more and the onscreen keyboard is faster.

Your wearable allows you more easily to keep up with events without taking up a hand fully.

---------- Post added at 08:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 AM ----------

Hear and agree. Some of this will come from software, but mostly from hardware. A bigger battery is one component, another is a fundamentally light OS and efficient apps on a powerful processor which spends as much % time in its sleep state, and when its forced to work, to be efficient and keep cpu as slow as possible as much as possible. That's hardware+software. I think Android L has some of this in its goals, but its also down to functional apps which don't try to look as good possible.

That is an engineering materials designs problem. I think a whole-screen no-bezel has advantage of smallest phone for biggest screen, the swipe concept though means you've got to be able to hold the phone without touching the screen so the UI demands a bit of bezel and the screen recessed a little so you don't get accidental touch. The fragility issue is just materials engineering. e.g. a bendable display which bends rather than shatters. I don't think we have to hold a bigger phone just because of lack of chemistry and physics skills.

i agree, holding my N5 now, its approaching a pinnacle, I certainly don't want a phone size any bigger, if anything a size down like say N4, and I see we've not got much scope for bezel shrinkage, we risk false touch events.

---------- Post added at 08:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:50 AM ----------

I had Nexus 4 for 17 months and I think the tweak there is aspect ratio, make it taller so videos in portrait mode can use all the screen. They correctly got 16:9 with the N5.

The issue I see with the physical size of the N4 is it is placing an upper size limit on the battery size. If you take the current N5 physical size as the absolute maximum, and just shrink some components and place inside bigger battery, that is in a good direction. I'd like if they could do both bigger battery and a little smaller but I'm doubting tech has moved along enough in a year for that.... so I'd like to see the battery physically bigger and using latest density and the non-battery shrink.

Your phone is your hub to headset, wearable, tablet (BT tether) so the hub needs the biggest battery.

That means, no mega pixels ego battle....anyone want more pixels, go tablet.