Smartphones are going against one of the long-held rules in portable electronics, that smaller is better.Year by year, computers, storage devices and music players have shed size and weight. And for decades, it has been happening with cellphones, too.But now cellphones, and smartphones in particular, are going the way of the television: They just keep getting bigger and bigger. And people keep buying them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/technology/handset-makers-go-big-on-smartphones.html