Will you buy an extra large phone?

[ZMagic97]

I have a Samsung Galaxy i515 and think it's plenty big. Most phone nawadays are battery life killers and don't offer a removable battery. Until then, I'll stay with my "old" phone.

 

[haven]

Samsung's current galaxy 4 phone and galaxy note 3 devices do have an easily replaceable battery. The galaxy tab tablets do not.

 

[Lynn]

Not for me.

When we got new phones, my wife went with a Samsung Galaxy, but I opted for a Kyocera Torque. Since it doesn't required a case for protection, it fits in a pocket easily, and it has sufficient landscape for the smartphone features I use (text, email, weather, navigation, calendar, etc.). Camera sux, but I can live with it.

If I were into Candy Crush, it might be different...

Thought I would follow up...

Had the Torque for about 6 months. It shut down unexpectedly three times. The first time was just a few weeks after I got it. I turned it back on, and all seemed fine. Second time it shut down at night, so I overslept (counting on the phone's alarm). This time it wouldn't come back up. I took it to the Sprint store and the tech was able to get it to come back to life. Then last week it shut down and nothing would resurrect it.

Nice. A 'rugged' phone that's not reliable...

Sprint told me I could send it in for factory warrantee, or I was eligible for 'early upgrade.'

I tried the factory warrantee approach. I emailed Kyocera and got a link to the web site for their out-sourced service department. In order to get a return authorization number I had to enter data on their web form. The form would not accept entries into one of the fields. And, of course, it was a required field. I therefore couldn't get a RA number.

So, frustrated with Kyocera's warrantee support hurdles, I went back to Sprint, and did the 'early upgrade' to a Samsung S4 Mini. They gave me $19.00 trade-in credit for a phone that died after only 6 months of use.

I really didn't want to do the early upgrade, which, among other things means a new contract, and that I have to pay full price for the new phone over the next two years, but I've become so phone-dependent I couldn't get by any longer.

I'm pretty mad right now.

Oh, and to tie into this thread, I still don't want a big honkin' phone, and find it amusing that the Samsung 'mini' is about the same size as my old iPhone 4.

 

[abruzzi]

slightly old thread, but my $.02: 100% of my phone usage is one handed. If my thumb can't comfortably reach anywhere on the screen while held in my hand, it is a non starter. Right now, I'm still on a iPhone 4s partly because I don't know how much that extra centimeter of height on the iPhone 5 will make the phone difficult to use.

 

[zelatore]

Balance is important. As much screen size as I can get for web use but still has to fit in my pocket. I won't even use a case as that just makes them harder to get in/out of said pocket. Currently on a Galaxy 4 and don't see how I could go any bigger and still carry it. Of course, any phone-sized-object will suck as a web browser but at least it's (sort of) usable at this size. My previous iPhone's screen was so small as to be worthless. This one is tolerable if I have to use it, but certainly not desirable.