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Personally, I wouldn't mind a fatter phone. It actually might be easier for me to hold. I've never seen the appeal of phones so thin I could shave with them.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> never seen the appeal of phones so thin I could shave with them For people who wear slimmer-fitting clothing, this matters. Also, it’s more about the weight: you want a phone light enough that holding it up isn’t tedious.
- MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
  I suppose. Then again, so long as it's not so heavy as to cause pain, I think there would be a least some market for such devices. I thought the Steam Deck would be prohibitively heavy to use for it's weight, but the ergonomics made up for much of that.
  - craftkiller 2y ago
    If I use the steam deck for more than a couple of hours then I feel it in my wrists the next day. I still love the steam deck but it could go on a diet. (There are lighter alternatives, but I bought the steam deck specifically to financially support Valve's Linux gaming efforts)
    - baq 2y ago
      This should be nicely solved with something like the xreal glasses. Lie the deck down and have the display right in front of your eyes regardless of how you hold the input device.
      - MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
        Sadly, there's no way to use those glasses while also charging. I'd buy one instantly if there were a readily available solution for that.
- fallingsquirrel 2y ago
  This isn't playing out in reality though. 10 years ago we already had the tech for smaller phones (and yes the battery life was fine, 1-2 days typical). Just check out any flagship from the 2010-2015 era, e.g. https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9500_galaxy_s4-5125.php https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9500_galaxy_s4-5125.php If people actually care about slim, light phones... why has almost every company stopped making them?
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > If people actually care about slim, light phones... why has almost every company stopped making them? It’s not the sole factor. But ceteris paribus, most consumer prefer a thinner, lighter phone.
crazygringo 2y ago
The appeal is about being able to slide easily into pants pockets (esp. front pockets) without creating big uncomfortable tight bulges. Not as much of an issue with loose men's chinos, but definitely an issue with standard slim men's jeans, as well as with a slimmer-cut chino. And if you want to see if a fatter phone is easier to hold, that's what cases are for. You don't need them to make the phone fatter. In reality, most thin phones aren't all that thin anyways once people put a protective case on them, as many (most?) people do.
- genewitch 2y ago
  this is why purses were invented. If you go out in public pay attention to visible phones sticking out of pockets and what sort of person that belongs to. I just commented on this last night, in fact. Wife's phone half out of her pocket, and it's a smaller iphone than my brick of a 1+, but my phone sits midway down my thigh in my pocket. I make no judgement on the pants people wear (or don't).

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> never seen the appeal of phones so thin I could shave with them For people who wear slimmer-fitting clothing, this matters. Also, it’s more about the weight: you want a phone light enough that holding it up isn’t tedious.

MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
I suppose. Then again, so long as it's not so heavy as to cause pain, I think there would be a least some market for such devices. I thought the Steam Deck would be prohibitively heavy to use for it's weight, but the ergonomics made up for much of that.
- craftkiller 2y ago
  If I use the steam deck for more than a couple of hours then I feel it in my wrists the next day. I still love the steam deck but it could go on a diet. (There are lighter alternatives, but I bought the steam deck specifically to financially support Valve's Linux gaming efforts)
  - baq 2y ago
    This should be nicely solved with something like the xreal glasses. Lie the deck down and have the display right in front of your eyes regardless of how you hold the input device.
    - MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
      Sadly, there's no way to use those glasses while also charging. I'd buy one instantly if there were a readily available solution for that.
fallingsquirrel 2y ago
This isn't playing out in reality though. 10 years ago we already had the tech for smaller phones (and yes the battery life was fine, 1-2 days typical). Just check out any flagship from the 2010-2015 era, e.g. https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9500_galaxy_s4-5125.php https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9500_galaxy_s4-5125.php If people actually care about slim, light phones... why has almost every company stopped making them?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > If people actually care about slim, light phones... why has almost every company stopped making them? It’s not the sole factor. But ceteris paribus, most consumer prefer a thinner, lighter phone.

crazygringo 2y ago

The appeal is about being able to slide easily into pants pockets (esp. front pockets) without creating big uncomfortable tight bulges. Not as much of an issue with loose men's chinos, but definitely an issue with standard slim men's jeans, as well as with a slimmer-cut chino. And if you want to see if a fatter phone is easier to hold, that's what cases are for. You don't need them to make the phone fatter. In reality, most thin phones aren't all that thin anyways once people put a protective case on them, as many (most?) people do.

genewitch 2y ago
this is why purses were invented. If you go out in public pay attention to visible phones sticking out of pockets and what sort of person that belongs to. I just commented on this last night, in fact. Wife's phone half out of her pocket, and it's a smaller iphone than my brick of a 1+, but my phone sits midway down my thigh in my pocket. I make no judgement on the pants people wear (or don't).