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Bigger phones in the first place was a monumental design fail. For the love of god can we go back to phones which are comfortable to hold and use
by dreamfactored 9y ago
Bigger phones in the first place was a monumental design fail. For the love of god can we go back to phones which are comfortable to hold and use
- walterbell 9y agoiPhone SE
- khedoros1 9y agoSony ZX1 Compact.
- dubcanada 9y agoMy hands are big, and they hold the bigger phones probably the same as you hold the smaller phones.
- dreamfactored 9y agoI have no objection to these giant shoe size phones being available, just that my only choice of phone now is an SE (and frankly I'd go back to iphone 4 size if anyone brought out a top end small phone). I'd buy a maxed out nano version of an X in a heartbeat at pretty much any price. But what I'm really talking about is not myself but the thumb diagram in the article. It seems extraordinary to design a consumer product that is known to be uncomfortable. It's almost like the South Park It bike was released. I get that there was optimisation for eyes at the expense of hands (and portability, in a mobile device!) but the point of design is to balance constraints - it's a definition of bad design throw half of them out of the window.
- taylorhou 9y agoyou have to think about the non-alphabetical users who "type" by drawing characters/pictures. for them, the bigger the better. phones like the note 8 weren't designed for a western audience.
- shalmanese 9y agoI'm not aware of any major language where even a significant minority of users input text by drawing characters. Most East Asian users type in some kind of romanization and then use predictive text to pick characters. In general, only elderly users tend to prefer drawing inputs.