iPhone / iPod Touch canvas size

Above is the canvas size of the iPhone and iPod touch  - quite big isn’t it!

I’ve updated the popular post we have on designing for the small screen to include some notes on the iPhone / iPod Touch screen canvas.

Just showing the screen canvas on a normal computer monitor I think is quite instructive about how much smaller it still is to a computer - but the post also shows the canvas size in relation to other mobile phones.

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