{"id":750787,"date":"2013-05-10T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=503793"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:15:25","slug":"for-smartphone-buyers-bigger-is-increasingly-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750787","title":{"rendered":"For smartphone buyers, bigger is increasingly better"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/smartphone-size-preference-survey\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-1.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Smartphone Size Preference Survey\" title=\"Smartphone Size Preference Survey\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The days when smartphone buyers valued devices that fit neatly into their hands appear to be over \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/26\/phablet-size-study-pants-467278\/\">nowadays it's all about the big, beautiful display<\/a>. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategyanalytics.com\/default.aspx?mod=reportabstractviewer&amp;a0=8456\">survey from Strategy Analytics<\/a> has found that consumers are increasingly attracted to smartphones with larger screens, indicating that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-review-redux-362772\/\">the trend Samsung started with its Galaxy Note line of phablets has taken hold<\/a>. Overall, the survey found that consumers preferred an average smartphone size of around 4.5 inches in the second half of 2012, or right in the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple's<\/a>\u00a04-inch iPhone 5 and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung's<\/a>\u00a05-inch Galaxy S4. What's more, the survey also found that many smartphone owners have a case of \"phablet envy\" since \"the majority of consumers surveyed indicated that they preferred prototypes that have a larger screen than their current phone.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/InxRl7EFCiA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days when smartphone buyers valued devices that fit neatly into their hands appear to be over \u2014 nowadays it&#8217;s all about the big, beautiful display. A new survey from Strategy Analytics has found that consumers are increasingly attracted to smartphones with larger screens, indicating that the trend Samsung started with its Galaxy Note line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39jt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}