A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devices for longer

Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by manicdee on Sunday January 13, 2019 @05:59PM (#18899264)

Neither does the X or any of the “plus” model face slabs.

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by photojosh on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:42PM (#18899720)

Now I'm confused as to how I carried around my 6 Plus all that time and now the X... (and I'm not a big guy, small pants size).

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by Wowfunhappy on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:44PM (#18900229)

...I'm legitimately not sure how you comfortably fit that thing in your pockets. I can make it go in, but it's not comfortable; I can't imagine walking around with it all day.

You're somehow either wearing very pants from me, or you have a very different comfort tolerance.

(This is very reminiscent of the discussion I have with people who tell me they can fit a Nintendo Switch in their pockets...)

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by Dylan16807 on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:24PM (#18906122)

The front pockets on my jeans are 8x7 inches, or 7x7 if you want some margin to keep things from poking out. Anything up to about 4 inches wide is perfectly comfortable when I'm sitting, so let's say 7x4 for a device, minus a bit for thicker devices. A switch without the joy-cons is a good example of something that's right about at the limit.

An iPhone XSMax is 6.2x3 so it fits very easily. It's only a quarter inch larger than my own phone. An iPad on the other hand is 9.4x6.6, way too big. An iPad mini is 8x5.3, which lets it be crammed into the pocket but not be comfortable while sitting.

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by flyingpenguin on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:19AM (#18903077)

While I agree almost all phones are to large, I don't know they are that bad.

I recently overheard a conversation where someone was amazed by a colleagues small phone and wanted to know what it was. "Wow, what is that phone its so small!" "uhh, it's just a pixel." "Aren't pixel's huge?" "Those are pixel XL, this is a normal pixel..."

The pixel 3 is 37% larger in volume than the iphone 5. It is only 15% larger than the iphone 7... gosh but I wish phones release normal+ xl + compact.

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by manicdee on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:30AM (#18900889)

Do you never sit down or pick things up?

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