Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch

• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most Androids have a one-handed mode, where it shrinks the display into a corner, so you can reach everything with your thumb.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t it be better to just, y’know, cut out the free space around it?

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    • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you mean having a small phone in the first place?

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      • freeman@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I miss small phones

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        exactly

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      • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I love big phones though. Smaller ones feel too claustrophobic to me

        Also, from a usabity point of view, bigger screens are better for watching videos in landscape, editing text and it’s easier to use the gestures and the keyboard (I don’t even have fat fingers). I think only downside is ring and pinky fingers hurting after a while because of the weight

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, iPhones have similar modes, swipe down and the screen scrolls down you can also swipe the keyboard to either side for better access too.

    I hardly ever do that though, except by accident.

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• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had to go crawling back to Samsung because the pixel 9 is too large (and heavy) for me. I was using a pixel 5 before my screen died earlier this year :(.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I only bought a Pixel because of GrapheneOS, and the “a” series is at least slightly smaller (plus plastic back instead of glass, that’s something I am also happy about).

    But yeah, I feel you :( I am not even small, I have average hands!

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• kzhe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The implication is that when closed you can use them one handed

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• pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I actually find the Z Folds to be far better for one handed usability than regular phones since they’re narrower. Honestly wished Samsung didn’t make the newer ones wider. I liked the Fold 3’s width. It was perfect for me.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those are probably the Samshits and I too avoided them because they’re too damn long (And their user hostility lol), the Pixel 9 Pro Fold is what you want, folded it’s almost as big as the 7as screen (6.3 to 6.1 on the 7a)

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    First - 6.3 usually means already over the edge of comfortable, 7a is already almost too much. Second - thickness adds to it when it’s in your hand. And third - why would I spend huge money (doesn’t seem like it would decrease in price with generations as much as a normal phone, it might be EOL when it becomes affordable) on something that breaks more easily and is still bigger?

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t personally feel much of a difference in .2 inches of screen, but if 6.1 is your absolute limit, then the Pixel Fold 1 might be your perfect fit with a 5.8 “short and stocky” outer screen

      Though I don’t think it’s being sold new anymore, but it looks like eBay has some good condition/refurb models going for ~<800-1k, Google has stated all Pixels will get 6 or 7 years of updates.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure, you can buy one to never unfold. But you’d be getting a thick, expensive AF phone for no reason, lol

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