As is, I have no inclination to give up my SE, and if it fails I'll almost certainly pick up another off eBay or similar.
I have to give up a bit of grip to get my thumb to the top corners of the screen, but it’s a lot better than anything else and I’d say worth the trade off for the extra space. Bigger than this I’m not convinced.
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time...
But I can only assume that Apple does plenty of market research on their products, so I assume people aren't checking off "the thing is too damn big" under "reasons I didn't upgrade?"
I however always have a bra strap. I end up storing my phone there most of the time.
The women around me adopted larger phones earlier, because they had purses to carry them in.
So in my circles it's already 50/50. But I do see iPhone 5's and SE's amongst my circles more commonly than I should given the age of the phone. I'm not 100% on why, though I often ask. And it's incredibly rare that it's a cost decision.
If her iPhone 5 is still running iOS 6, she is correct.
Bringing the SCR-300 back in style?
PopSockets. In my neck of the woods they are almost as common as phone cases. Some men also use them.
Oh wow, this is horrible.
People with smaller hands, regardless of gender, often use two hands. Once you're used to using two hands, there's no reason to have a smaller screen.
I’ve been out of luck since the iPhone 4, so I often go for the largest. Might as well get the best camera and battery life.
I've no interest in anything bigger than a 7/8, myself. An XS might be borderline okay.
I downgraded to an SE recently and the only thing I miss is the screen size; traded that for headphone jack, smaller form that fits my hand nicely, and a design I like better.
Yet here I am years later still double tapping my home button several times a day
Please don't :(
Wait what? This doesn't make sense. I remember getting OnePlus as well (bought it for a friend in Europe) and the screen size was pretty mainstream at that point. It had 5.46" size. It got released the same year Apple released 6+ which had bigger screen, and in US it doesn't get more mainstream than that. In no particular order a list of other pretty successful smartphones released in 2014:
- Galaxy Note 4 (5.7")
- Google Nexus 6 (6")
- HTC One (M8)(5")
- LG G3 (5.5")
- Droid Turbo (5.2")
Where do you live?
Your list reinforces the point you are using it to argue against.
No it wasn't, check the specs. My point is at the point when majority of phones were released in "phablet" sizes no one considered them to be odd anymore. 3 years earlier, perhaps but not in 2014. I remember getting zero strange looks walking around with 6 plus.
> The Samsung Galaxy Note series is a series of high-end Android-based _phablets_ and tablets developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_One
>Type: _Phablet_
The overton window has shifted so much that things that used to look ridiculous and had to be labelled as a portmanteau look ordinary today.
There has never been a successor to the Nexus 4.
(1) Has a headphone jack
(2) Has the same processor as my Pixel 2
(3) Is actually a usable size (roughly the same as the Nexus 4)
I have giant hands and large pockets available but will always prefer a smaller phone.
On Samsung Galaxy S6 and later models, one can tap the home button three times to shrink the screen so that everything can be reached with one thumb. It's called "one-handed mode". I can't say I've used it very often, but when I need it, it's there.
For the iPhone X it's also there: https://mashable.com/2017/10/31/how-to-use-iphone-x-reachabi...
Not exactly convenient though.
Ordinarily I would vote with my wallet, but there are no compact Android phones either.
Ironically I still own a Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a "Phablet" due to it's obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries. However it would not look out of place today, in fact in comparison to my friends iPhone Xs (not max) it hardly seems at all larger!
I would merrily slam down 1K+ EUR for a real flagship phone at a size I can actually use.
(also, I wonder how women get on, since generally they have smaller hands than men.)