Do you cave and use both hands? Do you take the chance and try to use them one-handed when more actively using them? Or do you ultimately submit and get an accessory to kinda help, at least with keeping a hold of them?
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a few other answers:
just use both hands, get an accessory, and/or balance on pinky and develop the toughest pinky imaginable
bonus:
find some smol phone you like and savor it for as long as it works
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Why are all the options so defeatists? Using both hands is not caving in, using a pop socket or whatever accessory is not a failure, you are not being submitted. What is this, competitive smart phone use?
I use my phone one handed like 80% of the time. I use both hands to type long texts exclusively. I would hold it with both hands if Iβm watching a long YouTube video as itβs more comfortable. Itβs just a standard 6.5" phone, my hands are not even large at all. I do agree that more significantly different sizes of phones should be an option.
What is this, competitive smart phone use?
No, but the options are defeatist because they reflect my feelings related to the broad design trends of phones being bigger, and my preference for handling a phone one-handed. For me personally, itβs caving in (and frankly just clumsy feeling) to have to use both hands to handle phones (in portrait orientation) that are in a weird size range thatβs almost too big but not so much so that theyβre no longer portable.
Also in my opinion while itβs absolutely not a personal failure to use an accessory to help handle larger phones, it simply is a design failure. Itβs like having to put a label on a door to tell people how to open it, thatβs courtesy of a design failure that made opening the door ambiguous.
Anyway, 6.5" is a large phone to me, so that being a βstandardβ is why the phrasing is so defeatist. Youβre stuck in an awkward compromise if you want a device capable and comfortable: get some less powerful but smaller option (e.g. Jelly), or something that even on the smaller end is still relatively large (e.g. Zenfone 8/9).
For me, the samsung flagships have been a godsend - small enough to use one-handed, yet powerful.
People hate on Samsung but the UI has improved over the past few years, and whatever bloat they have can mostly be uninstalled now.
As a bonus, I like the Samsung quick toggles much, much more than the pixel ones.
Get a Z flip. Foldables are the current answer of the industry to your pledge.
EDIT: Just noticed the door sign comment. LOL, we are legally required to put a sign to tell people how to open doors in every single public door. Yet people get it wrong all the time. Thatβs 100% not a design problem, thereβs very little to change in door design that affect usability like that. Like, literally has handle/knob or doesnβt have handle.
I donβt. Popsocket all the way. Even big men with big hands canβt one hand these phones anymore.
I want a small phone with an OLED 1080 display that is supported by lineage OS and has a headphone jack. Thatβs all I want, I donβt care about processor or ram being mid, mediocre camera is fine, I need decent storage though, or an SD slot.
I have a s22+
I always get told I have piano fingers
I used to use a popsocket, but I switched to a phone wallet
Back, Home, and Recent tabs are all on the bottom with a simple swipe up.
I keep my phone resting on my pinky
With it like that, my thumb can reach 2/3 of the way to the top.
Placing my pinky under the phone, I can reach my thumb to the top left corner.
Most of the time, I never need to reach up there
But as for typing, I typed this whole thing one handed
I enjoy the big screen
My girlfriend loves her iPhone mini
She has small baby hands
I can curl my fingers over the tops of hers if we matched up hands
Mini feels so small in my hands and I donβt know if itβs just the different keyboard, but I canβt type on it very well
So I could even see that as a downside of me going to a smaller phone
Big ass hands
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I got ahead of it by growing big hands years ago
