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I want a decent 5" screen phone again. I have the pixel 3, and I swear I'm getting hand cramps because it's too big to use with one-hand. Miss the old Nexus 5.

silon42 7y ago
Nexus 5 was the best... There were considerable regressions since (HW and SW), ... at least Pixel 3A still has the headphone jack.
jedimastert 7y ago
You could look into Essential's Project Gem. Super thin and long screen.
sunstone 7y ago
I also have a pixel 3 and find I work it pretty well one handed. The pixel 2 though was a little wide.
- sudosteph 7y ago
  How big are your hands? Do you have a special technique? I've got the one-hand keyboard setting enabled and I still can't type with one hand. My hands aren't big enough to hold it between my palm and finger tips with any sort of stability while using my thumb. It works better if I stretch out my pinky and rest the phone on top of it (not even touching the palm so the thumb has more reach and mobility), but it still falls a lot like that so I end up always reverting to two-hand use. And that's just for typing, I can't do light browsing or anything else with one hand like I did on the Nexus 5 To give a hand size comparison, the length from the very bottom of my palm to the top of my index finger is nearly equal to the height of the pixel 3. My index finger is maybe .25" longer. I'm an average height adult woman (5'5”), with hands proportional to that. I can play a standard size guitar just fine (ok, some bar chords are hard), but I haven't been able to buy an ergonomically comfortable flagship Android device in years now.
  - sunstone 7y ago
    Ah, I'm a 5'10" male with average hands for that height and I can see that would make a big difference. Some way of moving the screen inside the phone's physical perimeter might be helpful, anyone got an app for that?

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I want a decent 5" screen phone again. I have the pixel 3, and I swear I'm getting hand cramps because it's too big to use with one-hand. Miss the old Nexus 5.

by sudosteph 7y ago

silon42 7y ago
Nexus 5 was the best... There were considerable regressions since (HW and SW), ... at least Pixel 3A still has the headphone jack.
jedimastert 7y ago
You could look into Essential's Project Gem. Super thin and long screen.
sunstone 7y ago
I also have a pixel 3 and find I work it pretty well one handed. The pixel 2 though was a little wide.
- sudosteph 7y ago
  How big are your hands? Do you have a special technique? I've got the one-hand keyboard setting enabled and I still can't type with one hand. My hands aren't big enough to hold it between my palm and finger tips with any sort of stability while using my thumb. It works better if I stretch out my pinky and rest the phone on top of it (not even touching the palm so the thumb has more reach and mobility), but it still falls a lot like that so I end up always reverting to two-hand use. And that's just for typing, I can't do light browsing or anything else with one hand like I did on the Nexus 5 To give a hand size comparison, the length from the very bottom of my palm to the top of my index finger is nearly equal to the height of the pixel 3. My index finger is maybe .25" longer. I'm an average height adult woman (5'5”), with hands proportional to that. I can play a standard size guitar just fine (ok, some bar chords are hard), but I haven't been able to buy an ergonomically comfortable flagship Android device in years now.
  - sunstone 7y ago
    Ah, I'm a 5'10" male with average hands for that height and I can see that would make a big difference. Some way of moving the screen inside the phone's physical perimeter might be helpful, anyone got an app for that?