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On the contrary i really like the iphone 6 plus. I was concerned with the size and at first it looked ridiculously large but it's funny how fast you get used to that. A few weeks later i look at my old 5" android phone (which i initially found to be too huge as well) and it seems tiny. Sure, the size is not the most convenient in some situations, but it's so much better in many others that i use my Laptop a lot less for casual web use. For the first time i also enjoy typing on a mobile device because of the larger keyboard and the battery will last a day no matter what i throw at it. I was very skeptical at first but would not go back now.

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From my own experience and from talking to my friends, people with a 6+ seem to be happy with it, and people with the 6/5/5s keep trying to convince me that it is too big and that they couldn't get used to it. It's a bit of an odd phenomenon overall, but I'm pretty interested in how cell-phone sizing plays out over the next couple years.

Oddly, you didn't gain any space by going from 5" to 5.5" since the iPhone 6 Plus only has a 1080p screen. (Statistically, that's what you likely had on the Android phone since most 5" Android phones have 1080p displays). I'd be curious if you find a 5.5" 1080p screen more productive than a 5" 1080p screen. I'm using a 5" 1080p screen now and upgrading to a 2,560 x 1,440 6" display (Nexus 6) primarily for better web browsing on the go.

I don't find that surprising. The resolution of the phone may be the same, but the physical dimensions of the keys on the keyboard (for example) are larger.

True. But, I had the same issue with the original Note. It was only 720p. Yeah, it had a big screen, but it had no more pixels. And a 5" screen seems plenty for using a touch keyboard with its terrible auto-correct (talking about both Android and iOS here). Granted, I'm one of those that would still really like a physical keyboard to text and email faster, they just don't make them anymore.

The iPhone 6 Pius actually renders a screen resolution of 2208x1242 (which is then downsampled to the display 1920x1080 native resolution):

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystifie...

It may report and draw 736x414 CSS pixels when drawing web content, but it's still only 1920x1080 real pixels and usable space.

I actually find it a lot more productive, at least for web browsing where resolution does not really matter because you use different UI scaling by zooming anyway. Where things on the android device were hard to read because they were too small, they are fine now, so overall less zooming and moving content around. On other Apps the difference is neglible but the apps that do support the Plus, it seems to be optimized better than most android apps that have to scale from whatever over 1080p up to 1440p.

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