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0 pointsorangepanda6y ago0 comments

> A Samsung A40 for example is barely larger than this new iPhone SE, but has a 5.9 inch display

A major pro of having a smaller phone is being able to reach anywhere on the _screen_ with just a thumb. While A40 and SE may have the same physical form factor, the former does not achieve this.

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jdietrich6y ago· 1 in thread

Most Android distributions (including Samsung's) have a one-handed mode that enables a gesture to shrink the screen into one of the bottom corners.

findthewords6y ago

That is an ugly hack. We can do much more.

graeme6y ago

Yup. This is the central point that big phone people don't understand about small phone people. It isn't phone width. It's screen size.

Usually when using a phone one handed I'm not even touching the other side.

findthewords6y ago

What your thumb can and cannot do is down to the human-computer interface. Shift the active area within thumb reach. Innovate.

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