It’s nearing the end of the year, and that means new iPhones are afoot. Apple has stuck to a September or October release date for its latest smartphones since 2011, and the most noteworthy thing about this year’s Apple harvest is that the iPhones are bigger—like, almost Galaxy Note-style bigger, at the top end.

From 2007 to late 2012, iPhones all had a single display size: 3.5 inches. The exterior and interior were revised a number of times, but the screen size remained constant for a plethora of reasons (not the least of which was to ensure app compatibility and consistency across the line). Android handset manufacturers, on the other hand, latched onto display size as a product differentiator, both from Apple and from each other. This resulted in a cornucopia of varying screen sizes in the Android world, up to and including the comically huge Samsung Galaxy Mega, which isn’t so much a phone as it is a stunted tablet that you hold up to your face and talk into.

And it’s not just Android devices that are aiming big, either. Devices like the Lumia 1520 allow Windows Phone fans to rip the stitching in their pockets along with the Android crowd. Even with the majority of Windows Phone devices being manufactured by Nokia, screen size is still an easy thing to use to make different models stand out.

It’s into this mixed size multidevice madness that Apple now tosses its hat. After hovering at 3.5 inches seemingly forever, Apple went to 4" with 2012’s iPhone 5, but this year it’s stretched the form factor out significantly with the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. Ars Creative Director Aurich Lawson has helpfully put together this panoramic image showing some common Android and Windows Phone device sizes, as well as a couple of Chinese Android phones to see how things look across the pond. Assuming you're viewing the image on a non-retina computer display, when zoomed to 100 percent the devices in the image should be pretty close to their actual physical size.

So far, the Galaxy Mega is still the gratuitous screen size champion, though it’s definitely too big for most folks to use comfortably (on the other hand, Samsung reported more than 20 million units sold within the first few months). Six diagonal inches seems to be about the max size for smartphone screens—any larger and they’ve stopped being "phablets" and become full-blown tablets.