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The hero image with (what I can only assume is) an NBA player's mammoth-sized hands holding this absolutely not-compact phone really shows the dichotomy between
by phinnaeus 3y ago
The hero image with (what I can only assume is) an NBA player's mammoth-sized hands holding this absolutely not-compact phone really shows the dichotomy between wanting to sell a small phone but not wanting to actually make one.
- MBCook 3y agoIt’s 5.9”. An iPhone is… 6.1”. Yeah, that’s a normal sized phone. Remember talking about All old using models with small hands to make the original iPhone look bigger? Nothing ever changes. Heh.
- comte7092 3y agoIt’s even sillier than that, it’s the exact same size as an iphone: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Asus-Zenfone-10,Apple-iPhone-14/phones/12162,11764 https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Asus-Zenfone-10,Apple...
- MBCook 3y agoSo not only is it not smaller, it must have thicker bezels.
- recov 3y agoiPhone 14 : H: 146.7 mm W: 71.5 mm D: 7.8 mm Zenphone 10: H: 146.5 mm W: 68.1mm D: 9.4mm It's basically the same size as an iPhone, ignoring screen size
- ksec 3y agoThe 3.5mm width is some difference.
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- hulitu 3y agoThey are wasted by the mobile UI anyway. /s
- Yizahi 3y agoAnd this particular metric is not a percentage increase in comfort or speed of operations, on the modern phones it can be above/below usability threshold. For example I have a droid phone with a width of 74 mm. But I can't reach with my thumb to the opposite side of the screen, and seems that making phone narrower by 5-6 mm would just about solve this. Thankfully droid OS doesn't require me to do this, but on the other hand I read that in iOS this is a key, most important gesture - "back". And UI button for this operation is in the most unreachable spot on iOS, in the top left corner usually. So users practically forced to do a gesture which is hard to do on a bigger phone.
- Mistletoe 3y agoI got so excited and then saw the screen size was 5.9”. :(
- behnamoh 3y agoI am experiencing the curse of Apple’s ecosystem. Because all my photos and videos are on iCloud, it’s practically impossible for me to switch to android at this point. On top of that, I really like the hands off feature (which allows me to copy something on my iPhone and paste it on my Mac) and the fact that I can use my iPhone’s camera as a second WebCam for my MacBook. there used to be a time when choosing a phone depended on its intrinsic value. But nowadays, the value you get from your phone depends on external factors, such as the cloud provider, the synergy between the phone and the rest of your computer setup, and the overall support you get from the company. I think this is the part where all android manufacturers get wrong: they focus so much on the intrinsic value of the phone without working on its extrinsic value within an ecosystem.
- ksec 3y agoI think the Photos and Videos are the easy part. Whatsapp / iMessages and iCloud Password are even worst.
- klausa 3y agoPasswords in iCloud Keychain have a very easy plaintext export option, and there's no social graph component to it, so I don't really understand how that's a lock-in vector.
- ClassyJacket 3y agoTransferring the photos is easy and automated: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10502587?hl=en https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10502587?hl=en There are also apps that allow you to use Android phones as a webcam, but no it won't be as seamless as Continuity Camera.
- jraph 3y ago> I really like the hands off feature (which allows me to copy something on my iPhone and paste it on my Mac Android and mobile linux phones can do this with KDE Connect with Linux computers. I think you can do this between two computers too. Maybe KDE connect also exists on Mac?
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- bodge5000 3y agoI'm still using a OnePlus 5t which at the time was sold as having a massive screen. Its only an inch bigger than this. For the record though, if you actually want a small phone, the Unihertz Jelly 2e came out recently, I've been tempted by that