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It's kind of crazy to me that people are concerned about the thickness of phones, yet nobody bats an eye when they keep getting bigger and bigger in the other d
by thesuitonym 6y ago
It's kind of crazy to me that people are concerned about the thickness of phones, yet nobody bats an eye when they keep getting bigger and bigger in the other dimensions. I guess screen size trumps all other concerns.
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- regularfry 6y agoIt's to do with pockets, at a guess. There's no penalty for expanding in the height and width dimensions up to the limits of a back pocket, which is comparatively huge. If you expand in the depth direction, the pocket can't expand far before it starts to feel uncomfortable, particularly if you sit on it.
- tartuffe78 6y agoPeople sit on their phones?
- thescriptkiddie 6y agoPeople put phones in their back pockets?
- regularfry 6y agoYes.
- jbay808 6y agoI put my phone in my front pocket. My front pocket can accommodate reasonably thick items like my wallet, but if they're too wide and long, it interferes with my ability to bend at the waist.
- regularfry 6y agoKeys and change go in front pockets. Things with screens don't go in those pockets.
- jbay808 6y agoKeys in my left pocket, phone in my right.
- kroltan 6y agoIt might be local clothing design, but I haven't seen a back pocket so low that you could actually sit on a phone. The geometry works out that the pocket is halfway from your back and your leg, so when you sit the phone would be at a 45 degree angle. Half of it would be under compression from your weight in the horizontal direction, and the other would be in tension from the pocket pulling it into the vertical direction. Not a healthy situation for your comfort, your phone's integrity, and the pocket's half-life, regardless of a phone's dimensions. In fact, a larger surface-area phone would work even more as a lever than a vaguely thicker one. So I just put the phone in the front pockets.
- regularfry 6y agoI didn't suggest it was a good place to put it, just that people do.
- aidenn0 6y agoRight. My Palm Pre fit in my pocket better than any modern smartphone where almost all models are starting to push a 6" diagonal. The corner invariably digs into my hip when I sit down. For women it matters less since pockets in women's clothing are a joke
- filmor 6y agoSame here. It's near impossible to get a <5" phone nowadays, and everything else is too big for me. I really really liked my Pre3, maybe I'll just start using it again when my Samsung A3 finally dies :)