{"id":4547,"date":"2016-06-25T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/ultra-big-ass-phones-need-to-die-in-a-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:27:39","slug":"ultra-big-ass-phones-need-to-die-in-a-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/ultra-big-ass-phones-need-to-die-in-a-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra big-ass phones need to die in a fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f125850%2f7f36939c6fbb4f69931b40e8214d127d\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/gvynB8nQGN86lt1795xExKZSpfw=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F125850%2F7f36939c6fbb4f69931b40e8214d127d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Ultra+big-ass+phones+need+to+die+in+a+fire&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F25%2Fultra-big-phones-die%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F25%2Fultra-big-phones-die%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I thought big phones were stupid when Samsung introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/09\/01\/samsung-galaxy-note\/\">Galaxy Note<\/a> in 2011 and created this whole phablet (shudder) trend.<\/p>\n<p>I still think big phones are ridiculous. But where phablets with 5.5- to 5.8-inch phones are now commonplace, phone makers have now run out of interesting ways to make phones exciting again.<\/p>\n<p>So what are they doing? Oh, just releasing even BIGGER phones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, for f*cks sake.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/04\/11\/samsung-galaxy-mega\/\">Samsung Unveils Enormous 6.3-Inch Galaxy Mega Smartphone<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Big everywhere<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached the point where we can&#8217;t turn our backs on phablets anymore. We&#8217;re already too far along in assimilating phablets into our lives to ever think small phones are sufficient.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/25\/ultra-big-phones-die\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ray-rants\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ray Rants<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/die\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Die<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/big\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Big<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/smartphones\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Smartphones<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/big-phones\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Big Phones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/oeS7wVMrUTo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought big phones were stupid when Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note in 2011 and created this whole phablet (shudder) trend. I still think big phones are ridiculous. But where phablets with 5.5- to 5.8-inch phones are now commonplace, phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/ultra-big-ass-phones-need-to-die-in-a-fire\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3507,3508,3506,3505,1479],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-big","tag-big-phones","tag-die","tag-ray-rants","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}