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I very recently started using a phone which is too large to be used with one hand. Not because I wanted to, but because my old phone was aging, I needed a new o

I very recently started using a phone which is too large to be used with one hand. Not because I wanted to, but because my old phone was aging, I needed a new one and nowadays there aren't any recent and decent phones anymore which are small enough to allow one-handed usage. And so far it's been mostly annoying. Sure, the larger display is great, but the lost ability to operate the phone with single handed is a real bummer. I wonder why the smartphone manufacturers don't at least offer a single device small enough to allow one-hand usage. There just has to be a market for that, given how many people complain about large phones.

jakub_g 7y ago
My previous phone - Asus Zenfone - featured the one-hand mode, where you scale whole viewport down and move it on the screen as you see fit. See this image: https://www.technokick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSCN7927-Copy.jpg https://www.technokick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSCN79... Maybe not beautiful but it was practical in some cases. More vendors should ship things like this. But the companies value fake visual niceness over usability so I'm not holding my breath.
- davweb 7y ago
  iOS has Reachability[1] which is a similar solution the same problems. The problem with solutions like this is that they are often hard to discover. 1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13.0/ios/13.0#iph145eba8e9 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13...
  - dillonmckay 7y ago
    I find it interesting that it is supported on a 6s, but not an SE. I assume it is because the screen is the ‘correct’ size on the SE.
- Fnoord 7y ago
  LineageOS has a left/right hand mode. Basically the screen gets resized to about 75% of the size, with the top right (for left hand mode) or top left (for right hand mode) becoming black. It can be activated by swiping from left to right / right to left on the bottom bar.
dangus 7y ago
If you haven’t done so already, get a Popsocket or similar device and give it a solid week’s chance.
- Dunedan 7y ago
  How would a popsocket enable one-handed device usage?
  - dangus 7y ago
    It helps reach further on the phone much easier. You can grip the phone from the center instead of from the edges. It’s worth the $15 to give it a try.
filleduchaos 7y ago
Sony did for ages (with their flagship compact line), but in general people don't actually seek out and buy products with the features they claim to want/need. (I am very, _very_ bitter over the growing certainty that the XZ2 Compact was the last of the compacts).

jakub_g 7y ago

My previous phone - Asus Zenfone - featured the one-hand mode, where you scale whole viewport down and move it on the screen as you see fit. See this image: https://www.technokick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSCN7927-Copy.jpg https://www.technokick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSCN79... Maybe not beautiful but it was practical in some cases. More vendors should ship things like this. But the companies value fake visual niceness over usability so I'm not holding my breath.

davweb 7y ago
iOS has Reachability[1] which is a similar solution the same problems. The problem with solutions like this is that they are often hard to discover. 1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13.0/ios/13.0#iph145eba8e9 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13...
- dillonmckay 7y ago
  I find it interesting that it is supported on a 6s, but not an SE. I assume it is because the screen is the ‘correct’ size on the SE.
Fnoord 7y ago
LineageOS has a left/right hand mode. Basically the screen gets resized to about 75% of the size, with the top right (for left hand mode) or top left (for right hand mode) becoming black. It can be activated by swiping from left to right / right to left on the bottom bar.

dangus 7y ago

If you haven’t done so already, get a Popsocket or similar device and give it a solid week’s chance.

Dunedan 7y ago
How would a popsocket enable one-handed device usage?
- dangus 7y ago
  It helps reach further on the phone much easier. You can grip the phone from the center instead of from the edges. It’s worth the $15 to give it a try.

filleduchaos 7y ago

Sony did for ages (with their flagship compact line), but in general people don't actually seek out and buy products with the features they claim to want/need. (I am very, _very_ bitter over the growing certainty that the XZ2 Compact was the last of the compacts).