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Like waistlines in many prosperous countries, cell phones are going XXL and some of their owners are struggling to tuck them in.

Jeremy Roche, 47 years old, owns a Samsung Galaxy Note II phone that is about 75% larger than the original Apple Inc. iPhone, and roughly the size and heft of an extra-large Hershey’s chocolate bar, with about an inch nibbled off the end. It “did feel weird” at first to hold his big phone to his head for calls, he says, but now he loves his ample screen.

After years of evolution from brick-size monstrosities into slim pocket devices, cell phones are going in reverse. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. is credited — or blamed 一 with bringing big phones back into the mainstream with devices like the original 5.3-inch Note, introduced outside the U.S. in late 2011.

Some tech reviewers at the time derided the big phone as “silly”，and “a phone designed for giants.” But sales boomed, and other makers have followed with still-bigger “phablets”, as techiesarc beginning to call them—a cross between a phone and a tablet.

Fares Fay ad, a 39-year-old consultant in Dubai, says he used to think a 3.5-inch cell phone screen was just right, until he tried the iPhone 5, which has a 4-inch screen. “I don’t believe I can go back to the slightly smaller screen,” Mr. Fay ad says,

Some ergonomics experts worry lame phones could pose an injury risk. “As the stretch to reach all areas of the screen increases, we might start to see more serious repetitive stress injuries --- likely to the thumbs --- in larger touch-screen devices”, says Anthony Andre, a professor of human factors and ergonomics at San Jose State University.

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