iPhone 5 to have 4in screen?

MacRumours has posted an article on its website that suggests that the next generation of the iPhone will have a 4in screen instead of the 3.5in unit it currently has. The source is an Asian blogger who quotes an unnamed source. There are so many Apple product rumours and so many turn out to be wrong it is hard not to be sceptical about this one. In fact, there are so many rumours it wouldn't surprise me if Apple was the source of some of them. It loves secrecy and putting out a few false rumours would put investigators off the trail of the real product.

I have to say though, that the iPhone does look small next to many of the other top of the range smartphones these days. Many popular models have 4in screens and some are even bigger. There is an optimum size for phones and anything much over 4in is awkward to carry. After all, trouser pockets are only so big. For me, a 4in screen would be the ideal size - not too big and not too small. The fact that the iPhone has remained at 3.5in when larger screens are available suggests that Apple believes that the optimum size is 3.5in, so whether we will actually see a bigger iPhone is anyone's guess.

Of course, changing the screen size would be awkward for apps because they wouldn't be designed to work in the new resolution. Unless, that is, the screen resolution was kept the same. That would suit me because one thing that frequently irritates me about the iPhone is the small size of the text in some apps (forgive me if I've mentioned it before). I've even deleted some apps because the text was too small to comfortably read. The perfect iPhone 5 for me would have a 4in screen with the current resolution, or rather pixels count, so that everything is that little bit bigger.