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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.

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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.

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.

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