the web is increasingly designed for bigger screens
The iPhone has an advanced 3.5” screen with a resolution of 960 x 640 pixels, the
red Dell Streak has a larger 5” screen with a lower resolution of 800 x 480. The Apple excels in resolution, the Dell in size. However, if you actually have to read something you generally have to expand it on the iPhone, that happens less often on the Dell, because the screen is so much larger. Granted, if you have 13/20 vision like I used to have, you can probably read both, but most of us aren’t that fortunate. Whether it is using the screen keyboard, reading from the Kindle application that both now have, watching a movie or sharing a picture, or just browsing the web, the bigger screen is better. In terms of portability and phone use, both devices are substantially larger than the cell phones we used to carry and the Streak likely hits the upper limit. Both also look a bit dorky when held up to your head so both should have headsets.
Currently, I’m being told that the iPhone 4 is having serious Bluetooth problems (Apple isn’t very forthcoming about problems unfortunately), but they are expected to be addressed with a patch in a few months. Android phones haven’t had similar problems that I’m aware of.
When they get flexible displays to work, I’ll bet we go larger than the Streak, because the web is increasingly designed for bigger screens suggesting the spec should be above and not below the Dell in the long term. In fact, the iPad might actually be closer to the ideal size for a display on a future
red smartphone than the Streak. We’d just have to be able to fold it up so we could carry it better.
