iPhone 6 With Bigger Screen Rumored for May 2014

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I have to admit I like a big screen for my old eyes. But I got a 5s gold for xmas I got it covered and a case and it fits in my jeans pocket.

I can live with it. But the font size needs to be more adjustable in the web browser using chrome is no good either, in ios same engine.

My only gripe so far, oh and battery life has lots to be desired if you use it a lot.

 

You would be much better off running massively parallel code on a GPGPU.

While FPGAs are nice for implementing parallel and pipelined algorithms, the cost and power overheads are horrible compared to custom ASIC since somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of the FPGA's die area is interconnects, associated management circuitry and hard-wired resources that will inevitably go at least partially to waste most of the time.

If you tried to duplicate a GPU's processing power with FPGAs, you would end up with something drastically more expensive, slower and far less power-efficient... even the largest FPGAs on the market today only have a fraction of the raw processing power available in today's $500 GPUs.
 
It doesnt matter what tech device you buy nowadays, theres always a newer one coming out soon... just gotta be happy with what ya have.
 


I had an iPhone 4 and hated the small screen. Switched to an HTC One - much easier on the eyes, and the full 1080P resolution is far better than Apple's weird retina display resolution is.
 

While the iPhone 4 and 5 may not even be 720p, they still do have pixel pitch above 300dpi which is all that "retina" is about. Not many people would really notice the difference between 720p and 2160p on a 4" screen under normal viewing circumstances... even going from 800p to 1200p on a 7" screen is a fairly subtle upgrade for reading text and watching videos.
 
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