Currently, the iPhone 4 is offered in a 4inch display with the iPhone 3G being offered at 3.5inches. If Apple continued to increase or decrease its screen sizes by .5 inches, I would imagine we would be seeing a 3inch or 2.5inch iPhone mini.
Right now on the market there are no ‘small’ smartphones offered and everything seems to be getting ‘bigger’. Nokia’s new Microsoft phone is getting a lot of ‘buzz’ around it about how fast and elegant its is. Personally, after viewing the phone it seems extremely heavy and just as fast as any other smartphone on the market. Sure, it has some nice features, but when does the point come when consumers are fed up with the same smartphone coming out, just with some small tweaks?
For example, the Samsung Galaxy is just like any other smartphone being released on the market but has one small difference…. a stylus. Now, is the stylus going to create enough ‘buzz’ around it to drastically increase sales for Samsung? Probably not…the stylus is not some revolutionary idea, its been around since the Palm.
Is decreasing the size of a product a revolutionary idea? No. But, Apple thought it would be a good idea to introduce the iPad mini. Sure, it’ll be successful since it has Apples brand backing it up, but its not the Apple that we know that is coming up with its own rules and shocking consumers every year with revolutionary products.
I believe the iPhone Mini will be a hit since there is currently no product like it on the market, and of course it still has Apples brand backing it up. It’s not the Apple we saw two years ago…but nonetheless, it’s Apple.
Author: Peter Nitso
Twitter: @PeterNitso