It never ceases to amaze me what phones are turning into, and what they are turning the human race into. The new iPhone 6s+ and LG G4 are phones that have a 5 ½ inch screen display, and that’s just the screen, not even the whole body of the phone. So many phone companies have it in their heads that “bigger is better,” but is it really?

Larger phones will not only give you a more bulky, ugly look, but also have lots of defects as well. Many of the new larger iPhones will not fit in a lot of people’s pockets, but will also actually make the phone bend if kept in a tight pocket for too long. Also, a bigger phone will need a bigger and better battery to power it. After that statement, it may seem like that battery would be better, but it is not. The bigger battery will be the exact same thing as if it was in a smaller phone. Additionally, the time it would take to fully charge the phone would take longer than a smaller phone.

Getting a larger phone will make it heavier and larger to handle. After holding a large phone up for a while, it will get heavier than you think. Also, Steve Jobs had a reasoning behind smaller phones; they were designed so that you could text with one hand on the phone. Now, with the expanding phones, you have to use both hands and constantly reposition the way you hold the device. Pretty soon people are going to start walking around with phones the sizes of tablets.

I really like the new iPhones for their new software and how skinny they are. I would love it if a phone came out with about a 4 ½ inch display, and was still as skinny as most phones are today.

Another largely stated topic is the fact that phones, especially in young adults and teens lives, are distracting and harmful to what they are learning. Phones now being allowed in classrooms in school are major distractions to students and the full education they could be getting. A University of Florida professor actually says that phone addictions are starting to get very serious across the U.S. He states that there are many individuals out there who can not mentally function correctly when their phone is not within the same room as they are.

A study from the National Institutes of Health reported that phone overuse can actually cause sleeping disorders, stress, depression and a big impact on social communications.

I won’t deny it, I would love to have the brand new iPhone, and I use my phone in lots of different ways daily as well. I would just like to bring some notice to the rising phone overuse problem that we all are starting to face.