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The appeal of a big screen that fits in your pocket is obvious. The downsides certainly might outweigh that, but the reasoning is not a mystery like you're impl
by happytoexplain 3y ago
The appeal of a big screen that fits in your pocket is obvious. The downsides certainly might outweigh that, but the reasoning is not a mystery like you're implying.
- solardev 3y agoWhat good would a bigger screen in my pocket be? My current phone is already uncomfortably large. It's not like my thumbs or palms are getting any bigger. I wish they made smaller Pixel phones, not bigger.
- z0mghii 3y agoCompletely disagree with you on smaller pixel phones and that's ok
- solardev 3y agoI just miss having that option. The market offering only bigger phones seems a bit... heavy handed? Ba-dum.
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- jwolfe 3y agoIt's not heavy handed. It's responding to what sells in the market, and big phones are consistently what most people buy when they have the option of both.
- Philpax 3y agoWhat if you had a small phone that could become big on demand, for enhanced content consumption or productivity tasks?
- solardev 3y agoPersonally, I'd just open my laptop or plug it into the desktop monitor. Like even a giant iPad with a keyboard isn't productive for me. I just use my phone to check messages, read the news, etc. If I want to do something useful, I just sit down at the ultrawide and use a real OS with like four times the memory. I played with those folding phones at the store last week and thought to myself "nah, just more shit to break. And what would I do with it anyway? Watch YouTube slightly bigger? It'd be much harder to type on too."
- dylan604 3y agoTell me you're a fellow boomer without using the word. These kids today...might not even have a full computer at home. It is possible that they only use one at school/work. So the majority of the compute time is on a device. This is something I have to remind myself of a lot more often. The mobile first concept is real for a reason. So, just having an ultrawide and a system with an OS is pretty much on the lines of a class distinction.
- californical 3y agoIdk, I’m a young millennial and I am in the same boat as GP commenter. I have an iPhone SE, any bigger just feels wrong. I can’t imagine wanting a bigger thing to stare at in my hands, and I’m typing this from the tiny old iPhone
- solardev 3y agoNot a boomer but a millennial. I dunno if it's a class thing (my phone, computer, and monitor combined still costs less than some new phones these days). I need the computer for work because it's my livelihood. And I play video games on it (streaming, cuz I can't afford a real gaming PC). But I can totally believe that for many people the phone is their only device. I still struggle to imagine what use case would be better on a slightly bigger phone, especially if it makes typing harder. I had a Steam Deck for a while and that size is similar, and it was so hard to interact with that keyboard vs a regular phone in portrait mode. I have no issue with manufacturers trying new form factors. Somebody out there must want them. I just wish they also kept making smaller phones for the small-handed among us...
- rescripting 3y agoYour thumbs may not be getting any bigger, but your eyes are probably getting worse.
- chrisco255 3y agoSo, larger screen means you get to display more pixels on the screen at a time.
- baby 3y agoYou just made the point for foldables
- caddemon 3y agoIf you dislike the size of your current phone, it sounds like you might enjoy the z flip.