Lately I have been noticing a lot of people on the net comparing phones of different shapes and sizes and referring to "bigger" phones as bricks, chunky or other synonyms for large. Yes the iPhone is considerably thinner and lighter than most Android and WP8 phones, but to me arguing about millimeters and grams is a bit petty. If you walk into a phone store and lift different devices without looking at the side profiles you won't be able to tell the differences in a few millimeters. Your hands are not micrometers.
So I decided to do some comparisons just to visualize everything, and if you have time you could do it yourself.
First, I decided to draw some rectangles on a blank piece of paper that are the same size as the side profiles of the three main WP8 phones. So the rectangles in mm would be:
8X- 132.3 X 10.1mm
Ativ S - 137.2 X 8.7 mm
Lumia 920 - 130.3 X 10.7mm
After cutting them out and laying them on a table you can see the different sizes. In numbers 8.7 vs 10.7 sounds like a big deal (a whopping 2mm!) but in reality you can see that the difference is negligible.
Secondly, I decided to take three plastic sandwich bags and fill each of them up with the same amount of salt as each phone weighs. An accurate kitchen scale helps here.
8X - 130g
ATIV S - 135g
Lumia 920 - 185g
When you lift each bag up they all have a similar weight. Of course there is a tiny difference in 130g vs 185g but after mixing the bags around you will barely be able to tell which is which.
You can also tie up each bag and carry it around in your pants pocket for a while to see how much of a "brick" 185g is vs 130g and you will most likely find that once in your pocket you cannot tell the difference in weight.
I'm not trying to advocate that one phone is better than another but on the other hand I'm trying to point out that arguing about negligible differences is quite pointless. People on the net are just using pointless arguments to fuel their own personal bias.
If you like your phones thin and light then by all means buy a thin and light phone. Just don't go saying calling a phone a "brick" just for being 2mm bigger.
So I decided to do some comparisons just to visualize everything, and if you have time you could do it yourself.
First, I decided to draw some rectangles on a blank piece of paper that are the same size as the side profiles of the three main WP8 phones. So the rectangles in mm would be:
8X- 132.3 X 10.1mm
Ativ S - 137.2 X 8.7 mm
Lumia 920 - 130.3 X 10.7mm
After cutting them out and laying them on a table you can see the different sizes. In numbers 8.7 vs 10.7 sounds like a big deal (a whopping 2mm!) but in reality you can see that the difference is negligible.
Secondly, I decided to take three plastic sandwich bags and fill each of them up with the same amount of salt as each phone weighs. An accurate kitchen scale helps here.
8X - 130g
ATIV S - 135g
Lumia 920 - 185g
When you lift each bag up they all have a similar weight. Of course there is a tiny difference in 130g vs 185g but after mixing the bags around you will barely be able to tell which is which.
You can also tie up each bag and carry it around in your pants pocket for a while to see how much of a "brick" 185g is vs 130g and you will most likely find that once in your pocket you cannot tell the difference in weight.
I'm not trying to advocate that one phone is better than another but on the other hand I'm trying to point out that arguing about negligible differences is quite pointless. People on the net are just using pointless arguments to fuel their own personal bias.
If you like your phones thin and light then by all means buy a thin and light phone. Just don't go saying calling a phone a "brick" just for being 2mm bigger.