• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    The problem with this is that everyone has different hands. Personally, large phones sit in my hand better. The phone I felt the most comfortable holding was a note 20 ultra. I have really long fingers though, so it isn’t for everyone, but I really don’t want to see all phones go back to being small. They do need some small varieties though.

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      1 year ago

      The problem I have is not so much how well they sit in my hand, but if I can reach everything on screen with one hand without having to shift the phone around or resting it somewhere. I have huge, way above average pianist hands (they make Xbox controllers look small). I can’t do it higher than ~6.5 inches, and it’s way easier under 6.2.

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        1 year ago

        I believe there is an app that helps with that. From what I remember you could do some gesture to get a cursor in the top part of the screen so you could press that.

        I’d like to add that it’s not my preference but I feel like I should share it with you in case it could be of use.

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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah, both Android and iOS have a one-handed mode. You do some gesture and it temporarily pulls the top of the screen midway down so you can interact with it. It’s indeed useful, but if you have to use it too much, it’s IMHO a failure of usability.

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      1 year ago

      Even then, the large phones are so flat thin, human fingers can’t bend at those angles easily. Thick cases generally help with that, but if the phone were a normal size, it would be easier to hold, could have a larger battery, and not need a case.

      Also, since the manufacturers are all anti-bezel now, there’s no safe place to set one’s fingers without delicately holding the phone by both sides or side+back in some balancing act. Razr 5G 2020 was a neat combo, pretty thin borders, (but a notch), but the traditional old Razr bump at the bottom for nostalgia, which gave the phone a chin one could easily grab onto without fear of hitting touch buttons.

      These companies quest for a thin sheet of touchscreen as the entire device and completely discard the fact that human hands have to interact with the device.

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      1 year ago

      You are right. How could I forget about that.

      I do wish I could have a phone that is comfortable but not unusable like those really tiny ones.