5-Inch Full HD Smartphones to be More Common in 2013
HTC spearheads 5-inch smartphone market with Droid DNA and J Butterfly.
According to sources speaking with DigiTimes, 5-inch full HD smartphone screens may very well become the industry standard for handsets next year.
DigiTimes' insiders claimed that handset manufacturers Samsung Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, LG Electronics, Huawei Device and ZTE are all currently working on 5-inch full HD displays, which are set to be shipped during the first half of 2013.
The sources added that both Samsung and LG will produce the full HD panels in-house, while Sony is said to be producing its panels via Japan Display (JDI), a firm it holds a stake in.
2012, meanwhile, has already seen a few notable devices with a 5-inch screen launch. The HTC J Butterfly, for one, is now available in Japan, and is scheduled for a worldwide release in the form of the Deluxe. It's also released the Droid DNA in the United States. Sony, meanwhile, is reportedly working on its 5-inch 'Yuga' handset.
Elsewhere, ZTE is scheduled to unveil its quad-core-powered, 5-inch Grand S handset during CES in January, with the event also said to be when Samsung unveil its 5-inch Galaxy S4.
While 5-inch screens begin to become more common in the industry, Samsung is apparently already working on the Galaxy Note 3, which sports a 6.3-inch display. Huawei aims to compete with the South Korean' conglomerate's Galaxy Note lineup with its own 6.1-inch phablet, the Ascend Mate.
Devices such as HTC's 5-inch Droid DNA boasts 440 ppi (pixels-per-inch), while the iPhone 5's Retina display features 326 pixel-per-inch.

RIP English language.
Full HD resolution on the other hand is a welcome improvement!
The full 5" screen phones don't fit comfortably in my pocket. Shopping for a new phone right now myself, and I've already ruled out the 5" Droid DNA, 4.8" Galaxy S3, and 4.7" Droid Razr Maxx because neither of them fit in my pocket comfortably. Those are like the top three Android phones out there.
I must have small pockets or somethin'
There are practical limits to how large a "phone" can be.
Also, the display is the biggest battery drain on most devices by a fair margin and that power draw is almost directly proportional to display area, which means bigger displays will eat into battery life. Not necessarily a good thing for people who want to use their phones mostly as phones.
1080p on a 5" screen seems overkill to me but I suppose we have reached the point where manufacturers are starting to have to throw everything including the kitchen sink in to justify their price tags and convince people to open their wallets.
Bigger screen! Thicker battery! All for your ever tighter hipster pants' pockets!!!
Bigger display means bigger phone and bigger phone means that you get room for a big battery as well. If big screen meant poor battery life, tablets battery life would suck, but the opposite is actually true.
RIP English language.
Nowadays a phone will do the trick.
Comedians make jokes about the 'bricks' we used to have as phones back in the 70s and 80s.
Then we went smaller and smaller... now we are slowly getting back to brick size.
But the good thing is, they are Smart Bricks
Cargo pants and shorts. They have big enough pockets to fit a small laptop, and can be classy enough to match almost any occasion
I'm finally getting my first smartphone this week, and I am heavily leaning towards that nice big Lumia 920. Size and weight are of little concern.
The 5" screen isn't a problem for me probably because I have big hands compared to others and I have no difficulty touching one end of the screen to the other end(like the Apple commercial, "Your thumb goes from here, to here"). It's probably too big for most and I would say around 4.3"-4.7" is more ideal, but a big hand user like myself, I love the 5" display!
Yep, it appears so.
Now outputting 1080p to another monitor is a different story...
He's being sarcastic...
Because Android appeals to customers who want more out of their phone, while at the same time hates Apple.
Cargo pants and shorts are NOT classy.
Or maybe he has good fashion sense.
The Gnote 2 has a battery that's almost 50% bigger than the S3.
Someone with fashion sense here, but most "men" around here probably wear x-large cargos that can fit a 13" laptop and a women's purse.
I thought everyone dissed Apple for emphasizing their ppi specs. Double standards I guess.
True, but bigger phones can also have bigger batteries. A battery's storage is based on volume, so it might even out.