I use one handed mode on my phone all the time because the damn thing is so fucking big. I can't even reach the toolbar with my baby hands. I had no choice but to buy this one cause it was the only one with decent battery in my price range. If I didn't have a purse it'd be impossible to carry it's like a brick in my pocket. It strains my wrist a little from it's sheer weight. Wtf is going on

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Phones need to stop being 20:9 and 22:9.

The "size" is measured by the diagonal, and the width stays the same while the height gets longer, because increasing the height does more for the diagonal than increasing the width does. The keyboard hasn't gotten any bigger; in fact it feels smaller.

You need to choke up on the phone and stretch just to open the toolbar (with the size of my hands, if I have to do it, everyone has to do it). Holding the phone, it always wobbles because it's not balanced in your hand, the center of mass is past your fingers. You even need to glance up and down to look at the whole thing. At a certain point the folding phones in folded mode will be the only thing that feels reasonable and proportional to use.

But hey, "everything is scrolling now". Everyone buys the long phones, so naturally that must be what the market wants. I guess you can consume more scrolling content and spend more of your time swiping just to feel like you're moving towards what you want. Oh and everything is video now. It's just the new codexes that we need to accommodate. Ultrawide. If it's not optimized for ultrawide it's not modern. That's why we make sure there are unused black bars on the side of each and every video because the phone is so long. Bezels. We've got to make the bezels finer.

16:9 devices were the peak. Every year we stray further from God's light (the golden ratio).

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

this

I fucking hate long phones so much. They suck for video, they suck for reading (especially comics/manga), they suck for ergonomics. The only thing they're good for is doomscrolling and being able to watch an entire 9:16 video while seeing the next one peeking at you underneath it.