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Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right. So it then natur
by oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right. So it then naturally follows that, to hold the phone to the ear, we'd keep it in that left hand. Of course, sometimes I also use it one-handed, in which case it's in my right hand — on reflection, I think most phone use is probably ambidextrous.
- tivert 2y ago> Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right. Phones used to be small enough that you could use them one-handed, and I still tend try. The only grips I use are one-handed or equally split between two hands, like holding a vertical video game controller. I never use a phone in the way you describe, except maybe to rarely to hit a single button that's out of reach. I tend to rock it in my hand to reach with my thumb. Have I ever told you I think all phones are slightly too big now?
- delecti 2y agoThere might be an age component to that. Anecdotally, holding the phone with the opposite hand from the one touching the screen feels correlated with age to me. I'm right-handed, and primarily use my phone one-handed with my right hand.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoIt could be an age thing, but I feel like it's more a size & situational thing. I would definitely use a smaller phone one-handed. And when I'm out and about, I do too.
- bee_rider 2y agoI think talking on the phone is sufficiently different from using it as a tiny computer, we just hold it completely differently in that scenario, so I bet we tend to go to the default state (right hand). I’m trying to think back, but I can’t ever remember using a phone left-handed.