Smartphones Cause Rapid Human Evolution

Size of the ideal smartphone screen size is limited by human hand. Couple of years ago, Apple did extensive tests and found out that 3,5" is the perfect size of smartphone screen. However, latest research revealed something amazing.

New iPhone has half inch bigger screen, yet it also perfectly fits human hand. How is that possible? There is only one logical explanation: human thumb grew by half inch since the introduction of the original iPhone. But why?

Hidden force behind that are Android phones. Bigger and bigger screens forced people to stretch their thumbs more and more. As this is repeated hundreds of time per day, human thumb become longer. The most amazing thing about this discovery is that such huge change happened in such short timespan, while typically it would take life forms with more rapid generation shift than humans to evolve so fast.

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Citius, Altius, Fortius

Faster, Higher, Stronger. I am not a sports fan and I never really understood why is it important that some guys can run faster or jump higher than last year's guys. It is not like they will pull whole human race to a new level. When that motto is applied to mobile phones, I am equally puzzled. It makes iPhone 5 an awful phone. Everyday I am bombarded with comparison between phone X and iPhone 5. It has only two cores where everybody has four, it has only 4" screen where everybody closes or surpasses 5", and it doesn't have NFC.

Comfortable iPhone 5 Screen Size

Legend says that size of the iPhone's screen is chosen to fit perfectly average female hand. As there are more and more rumours about larger screen, I wondered how large screen can be squeezed in the case of the same size.

Megasomething Overkill

If you want to sell something to men, just give them continuously improving numbers in specifications. We want more power, less distortion, higher frequencies and longer runtime, even if we don't really need them. They are easy to compare and it's easy to prove that we have something better than the other male.

Every now and then, something becomes such overkill that nobody cares about it anymore. Take camera resolution. My first camera had two megapixels. With such resolution, you could only do standard size photos without too much cropping. With every next generation of cameras, resolution went up. Somewhere around eight megapixels people stop caring. It was good enough for all practical purposes.

Large Screens Small Hands

I like to use my phone single-handedly. That leaves me one free hand to carry or do something or just to keep balance while walking. Don't laugh - typing with two hands and walking could be daunting task. That goes well until I try to use that new ICS application back button in the upper left corner; it is located exactly opposite to my thumb. I need some juggling to reach it, risking to drop the phone. Screens become too big for our fingers.