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On that note, I have to wonder if the buyers of these super-sized Android phones are like 80% male or what. Women have much smaller hands than men. This hit hom
by graue 13y ago
On that note, I have to wonder if the buyers of these super-sized Android phones are like 80% male or what. Women have much smaller hands than men. This hit home for me when I bought winter gloves in a "women's extra-large", because the store was out of "men's small". They're two different labels for the same size! For me, the Nexus 4 works fine, but if it were any bigger, or my hands any smaller, it'd be awful hard to use one-handed. Five inch phones seem to be excluding half the market.
- thaumasiotes 13y agojust to point out -- while the marketing is "4-inch screen is now 5-inch screen", the ergonomics aren't so bad. The 5 is several millimeters taller and only half a millimeter wider than the 4. But for holding the thing in my hand, I only really care about the width.
- alooPotato 13y agoYeah but your thumbs or fingers still need to traverse 5inches of screen because thats the tappable area now.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoI mostly tap on the keyboard? I do use an app that sometimes requires clicking in the top right corner of the screen, but I already use my other hand to do that. Actually, I already use my other hand for the keyboard as well.
- lazylizard 13y agoi suspect there's also a preference among men to put phones in pockets while women may often carry handbags..
- markmark 13y agoI seem to see more women than men with really huge phones like the Galaxy Note series. Perhaps because they are more likely to have a bag to carry it around with, rather than needing to keep it in a pocket. Presumably they just use them two handed. I was a bit concerned when I got my wife her Nexus 4 that she would find it too large, but she hasn't said a thing about the size.