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
I’m not a circus
midgetlittle person.I do one of the following:
- I use it with both hands
- I use it one-handed if everything I need is reachable
- I switch to single-handed mode (don’t know if it’s a Samsung-only feature or an Android one in general)
- I use it with a S-Pen
Big ass hands
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Ha! :-)
Pop socket life. I have a magsafe case for my Pixel 7 Pro and the magnetic pop socket. I can pull it off when I want and wireless charge.
Haven’t bought a popsocket in awhile. Didn’t know they had a magnetic one. Gonna check that out.
They actually just released new magsafe popsockets like a couple weeks ago including new accessories like wireless chargers to work with the new popsocket on your phone.
That’s awesome. Thanks for this.
I choose the largest screen size my hand can comfortably wrangle
It probably depends on how big your hands are, but I just hold it. It there’s something I can’t reach with one hand, I activate single-handed mode (swiping down on the gesture pill thing will do that on my phone).
My phone rests on my pinky, it’s not all that heavy. I’ve grown a smartphone divet in the side of my pinky and I’ve seen similar divets on other people’s hands.
I wish more apps would be designed for how big phones are these days. Every time I’m force to leave Firefox I ask myself how I could ever gave used a browser with the address bar at the top of the screen.
I type with two hands. If an interaction is as complicated as entering text, it’s worth stopping and using two hands for. Very rarely I use SwiftKey’s little side keyboard feature (like when I’m cooking and too lazy to wipe the ingredient gunk off my hand).
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A couple of things help me:
- Having bigger hands for a start
- Native gestures
- Extra gestures using specific apps
That last one is the best deal
I thought popsockets were SO FUCKING STUPID…until I tried one.
I succumbed. I have tiny hands. Tiny, prematurely achy hands. The popsocket helps so much, and they send coupons occasionally for mounts.
Bonus: if your popsocket slides around on your mount, stick a rubber band on it or dunk it in plastidip, you’re welcome lol
it’s annoying in your pocket and when using wireless charging though
Popsocket makes wireless chargers with holes in the center so you can still use them. Limiting, but functional.
You got me on wireless charging (I have a spidgen case that pops right off if I need to use the backside of the phone, but I’m sure something like an OtterBox would be an UNBELIEVABLE pain in the ass), but they do make a popsocket that helps a little with pocket shenanigans.
It still catches some in girljeans but that’s mostly because SMALL POCKETS SUCK. My note20 slides in just fine in the dudepants I have lol
idk, after a while I realised I shouldn’t be fighting so hard to use my phone. I use my phone one handed a lot on public transit so it got to the point where I decided I should actually get a phone that fits my needs, instead of trying to work around the issues with my phone.
Got the smallest samsung flagship and I’ve been really happy with it.
I don’t. Popsocket all the way. Even big men with big hands can’t 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. That’s all I want, I don’t 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
Thank you for the actual, technical explanation.
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 don’t know if it’s just the different keyboard, but I can’t type on it very well
So I could even see that as a downside of me going to a smaller phone
Corner wedged into bottom of palm with index finger supporting the top corner and remaining fingers supporting the back, thumb to navigate.
And the bottom rests on the pinky.
I’ve actually got a callus on the inside portion of my pinky from my phone resting there all the time.
I had to stop handling my phone this way 'cause it felt like that may have been happening, but not quickly enough to mitigate the general discomfort.
I have big hands.
I have large hands.
Same, large hands here. Smaller phones are uncomfortable.
On the flip side, my wife gets the smaller version of our phones because she has tiny hands. Her hands get cramps from holding up larger phones and she has mild tendonitis in her wrists from previous large/heavy phones.
She also has to shop for shoes in the kids’ aisles, so you know… she’s kind of a petite person all around.
I guess just big hands? I use a case which improve grips, but also makes the phone largerer, but IMO it’s worth the extra protection.
I’ve always used 2 hands with my smart phones, even smaller ones. So bigger phones have never been a problem.
