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> I’d send you links, but I’m on a phone. Off topic but I feel like this all the time too. What do you think would have to change about your phone to not feel

by voisin 6y ago

> I’d send you links, but I’m on a phone. Off topic but I feel like this all the time too. What do you think would have to change about your phone to not feel like this? Voice commands? UI changes?

zbrozek 6y ago
Finding stuff is a little slower and harder because of the small screen. Selecting text (e.g., to get a reasonably-sized URL) is massively painful. Copy-and-paste with long presses is finicky (often you end up moving the selection by mistake). Bleh. Forget it.
snarfy 6y ago
Compared to a PC, copying and pasting on a phone is physically laborious. Switching to the app, selecting the text, switching back, possibly fiddle with the cursor position and then finally pasting by waiting for the phone to interpret a long press as a paste command. It all sucks. It would be nice if I could enter copy/paste mode, and when in that mode I had a mouse cursor that I could move by holding my finger above the screen (so I can see the cursor), and basically use my finger like a virtual mouse during the cut/paste operation.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
  On android you can tap and hold the spacebar to slide the cursor around. I'd love to have a phone case with a flip down physical keyboard and a dot like on a ThinkPad. Think, old school game boy. For the rest of my problems,we just need better integration and customization. My last two phones have pop out drawers pinned to the sides. This can be taken much further to provide instant access to the clip tray, contacts,messages,emails, bookmarks, calender, password manager, and on and on. But no. I get notifications from the top, which has the customizability of a closed source terminal. From the bottom I have a barebones task bar. And I can pin 5apps to a pinned button that I can dock up and down either side. Can't even change its color tough. My current phone is leagues more powerful than my first smart phone, but my first was more usable and customizable.
  - voisin 6y ago
    On iPhone you can either press and hold space bar (older iPhones with a physical home button) or press and hold the empty space below the space bar (newer iPhones with FaceID) to slide the cursor around with accuracy.

by voisin 6y ago

zbrozek 6y ago

Finding stuff is a little slower and harder because of the small screen. Selecting text (e.g., to get a reasonably-sized URL) is massively painful. Copy-and-paste with long presses is finicky (often you end up moving the selection by mistake). Bleh. Forget it.

snarfy 6y ago

Compared to a PC, copying and pasting on a phone is physically laborious. Switching to the app, selecting the text, switching back, possibly fiddle with the cursor position and then finally pasting by waiting for the phone to interpret a long press as a paste command. It all sucks. It would be nice if I could enter copy/paste mode, and when in that mode I had a mouse cursor that I could move by holding my finger above the screen (so I can see the cursor), and basically use my finger like a virtual mouse during the cut/paste operation.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
On android you can tap and hold the spacebar to slide the cursor around. I'd love to have a phone case with a flip down physical keyboard and a dot like on a ThinkPad. Think, old school game boy. For the rest of my problems,we just need better integration and customization. My last two phones have pop out drawers pinned to the sides. This can be taken much further to provide instant access to the clip tray, contacts,messages,emails, bookmarks, calender, password manager, and on and on. But no. I get notifications from the top, which has the customizability of a closed source terminal. From the bottom I have a barebones task bar. And I can pin 5apps to a pinned button that I can dock up and down either side. Can't even change its color tough. My current phone is leagues more powerful than my first smart phone, but my first was more usable and customizable.
- voisin 6y ago
  On iPhone you can either press and hold space bar (older iPhones with a physical home button) or press and hold the empty space below the space bar (newer iPhones with FaceID) to slide the cursor around with accuracy.