Comment by recursive
6 hours ago
I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.
There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis, and I plan to keep it going until Apple caves and makes a sensibly sized phone again.
There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis…
You, me, and my wife. I’m just waiting for my phone to hit 79% battery health so I can take them both in for battery replacement.
It’s gotten to the point that I frequently get asked, “what phone is that”. I imagine because all phones are the size of aircraft carriers now, and an iPhone Mini really stands out.
Will the do a batter replacement for a 13mini? i just cracked my last new-in-box fore battery issues.
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Then I guess there is me with my iPhone 12 Mini. Replaced the battery some months ago, Apple techs broke the screen, so got a free new screen too. It's starting to get very slow though, every update it gets worse. I can feel that just running Spotify and Waze over CarPlay is starting to be too much, add in sending live location via Telegram at the same time and the phone almost grinds to a halt.
Hey count me in, I am on iPhone 12 mini, so I guess you didn’t count 4 because of that ;)
I'm vainly hoping to my SE 3rd gen. is the last smart phone I need to own.
I must be at least the 5th 13mini user.
I agree that phones are too big. I refuse to switch to two-handed phone use. I used the Palm Phone PVG 100 with a 3.3" screen as long as I could, but software got too slow and battery-hungry, and my now-wife was annoyed when my phone would die halfway through our text based conversations lol. Used a chunky 3.5"er (Soyes S10Max) for awhile but it died after a year.
Now I use the Motorola Razr 2025. 90% of the time I just keep it closed. The outer screen is 3.6" and a square, but the screen doesn't extend all the way out if you keep the hinge on the side. It's kinda heavy at 6.6oz (compared to the Palm Phone's 2.2oz), but with a ring, it's super easy to use one-handed. And it has battery life and compute power to handle today's unnecessarily compute-heavy apps. You can also split apps in half when it's open so you can just use them on the bottom half of the phone.
Pictures:
https://www.middleendian.com/phone.jpg
https://www.middleendian.com/phone-with-keyboard.jpg
Main disadvantage is that when it's closed, you only have a "selfie" camera as the back camera is facing you and the front camera is inside. So it's hard to quickly take pictures of things I see outside (usually funny birds). Other annoyance is that if you open the phone, use it, and then close it, the outer keyboard resets to the default keyboard and you need to "change the keyboard layout" to get it to use your preferred keyboard (Microsoft Swiftkey in my case)
On the topic of the thread, I am left-handed. When I tried to resize the keyboard while it was closed, it constantly glitched out. Could not figure out what was going on until I rotated it 180° and tried it with my right hand. Resizing worked perfectly lol. Something about coordinates I imagine. I hear left-handed phone users used to have their horizontal photos come out upside down until someone figured it out.
On the other hand, I'm also a Dvorak user, and the Dvorak layout in SwiftKey has the delete key on the left, which is super convenient. Shown here: https://www.middleendian.com/phone-with-keyboard.jpg
If you have an iPhone, enabling reachability is very nice [1].
[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...
I have a regular pixel 10, and I can palm a basketball. But I can't use this phone one handed.
Same here, I suspect the majority of people with average to small hands could never really one hand phones (with a good enough screen size) in the first place so it makes less difference to them.
I’m 196cm tall and can’t use one handed. It is ridiculous.
Bring back normal sized iPhones.
Why do you mention your height but not the size of your hands? Maybe you just have small hands?
Get a ring for the back of your phone. Makes one handed use much easier.
I’m a guy who’ll leave his laptop on the floor and will bend double from a chair to use it, on the floor, because I have forgotten I can pick it up. I am ergonomically insensitive.
Anyway, I use my phone in my left hand, my right hand, or both, pretty much equally.