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Re:New iPhone SE by coldpie on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:51AM (#22879219)
Yes, I agree, this iPhone SE is too large. But it's at least a step in the right direction compared to where we've been heading.
Re:New iPhone SE by scarface74 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:25PM (#22880486)
I keep seeing this. I’m below average height and I only have use of one hand so I know I never use my phone with both hands. Between the single handed keyboard mode and double clicking on the home button to bring the screen down, I have no trouble using the 8 Plus with one hand.
Re:New iPhone SE by dijit on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#22882168)
You’re totally right!

Everyone here is just making things up!

Egregious sarcasm aside: I owned the 6s after the 5s and it was too large to use comfortably, I kept dropping it, it meant that I had to _only_ use the phone when I wanted to check something- maybe I could get away with just a glance but a quick reply required far too much time unless I used two hands.

So I got a Samsung Galaxy S8 which felt superb in the hand, but was still wayyyy too big, and it saw the pavement in a similar way; I got rid of it because Samsung’s Android is horrible and on the S8 it wasn’t removable and went back to the old form factor SE.

I haven’t dropped this phone once, it’s comfy, it’s light- easy to carry around and very easy to use in one hand while I wait and sip a drink or something.

Anecdote: my girlfriend has an iPhone X and due to the size of the thing she leaves it hanging around the apartment and has to go searching for it each time she wants to use it. It’s simply too uncomfortable to keep in her pocket.