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ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) English21•1 year agocompact
6.1 inch
Back in my day, “compact” meant “usable with one hand”, or sub-5”.
Hexagon ( @Hexagon@feddit.it ) English20•1 year agoTrue, but on the other hand, phone screens used to be 16:9 and have larger borders around them. A 21:9 6" phone of today is roughly the same physical size as a 5" phone of 5 years ago.
It’s also true that phone are actually getting bigger and bigger by the year, and I don’t really like that
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) English8•1 year agoI don’t want thin bezels - thick left & right ones improve fall protection, while top & bottom ones are a resting place for fingers in landscape mode & allow for physical navigation buttons and a full rectangular screen without notches or rounded corners. Also a smaller screen inherently consumes less power at the same brightness.
5" 16:9 is 110×62 mm
6" 21:9 is 140×60 mm, not accounting for shenenigans like rounded corners that technically decrease the diagonalI prefer the former, and I’m thus using a 2017 5.2" Samsung Galaxy J5 I got for $50 and upgraded to Android 10.
slaytswiftfan ( @gaytswiftfan@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year agothen maybe this phone isn’t for you
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) English3•1 year agoThat’s not my point. Stop calling them compact, they are giant by not-too-old standards.
Also… are there any new phones for me, then? Maybe the 2020 Unihertz Atom L?
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoIt is a small phone, which is what it is. Just because the screen has expanded to fill the bezels doesn’t make it not small.
BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year agoCaptainObvious.jpg
BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year agoRight?
I want bezels. And my notification bar and nav bar.
Hell, I want capacitive buttons around the perimeter, that I can assign actions to. Or just let me use a portion of the screen edge for buttons. I miss my blackberry and treo for this kind of customization - those permitted physical button custom actions.
Stop this immersive crap.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) English3•1 year agocapacitive buttons around the perimeter
Those don’t really work through cases and are too easy to press accidentally. Tactile buttons FTW
You may be interested in Key Mapper.
BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year agoOh, real buttons? That’s way too much to hope for! Lol
I’ll check out key mapper, though I’d bet I’ve used it before…I’ve tried everything under the sun since about 2010. GMD Gesture controls has been on all my (rooted) phones since about 2012.
Oh, damn, Keymapper is essentially GMD but without needing root. BRILLIANT. Wish I had more upvote to give. Thanks!!
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoThis is really a pet peeve of mine, people basing screen sizes off a diagonal without taking into account the aspect ratio. Thanks for speaking up on this.
GenderNeutralBro ( @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ) English7•1 year agoIMHO frame width matters more than anything else for one-handed use. Personally I would love to see a modern phone with flagship specs at <65mm wide but I doubt it’ll ever happen again.
<70mm wide is what passes for “compact” nowadays.
Galaxy S23: 70.9mm
Pixel 7: 73.2mm
iPhone 15: 71.6
Zenfone 10: 68.1
Xperia Five-Five: 68mm
For comparison, the Xperia Z3 Compact in 2014 was 64.9mm wide. Even in 2014 it was one of the smaller phones available, and widely regarded as the best “compact” phone.
The only other phones released since 2022 that are compatible with my network and under 68mm wide are the iPhone SE and the Xperia Five-Four.
At this point I don’t know what I’ll get for my next phone. I might just give up on one-handed use and get the biggest slab that can still fit in my pockets.
Pxtl ( @Pxtl@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year agoReally, you want a narrow phone? The difference in width is the biggest thing I dislike about the new longer-aspect-ratio phones. I used to use a Moto z, which was 16x9 aspect ratio instead of the modern 20x9 and that’s the biggest thing I miss - the typing that wide screen was heavenly.
GenderNeutralBro ( @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•1 year agoI’ve been using gesture typing for about a decade now. On my Pixel 7, I have Gboard set in mini mode so I can swipe over it with one thumb. For me, a narrower phone would make typing easier, not harder.
Pxtl ( @Pxtl@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year agoThat’s funny, I have the same phone, but I’m naturally a two-thumb typer. When I gesture-type I still find it okay, though even without the mini mode. I’m a short guy but I guess I’ve got big flexible thumbs.
I used to lie down on the sofa and surf Reddit two-thumb typing in landscape mode on my old Moto Z, which is why I really miss 16:9 screens - on 20:9 screens the keyboard obscures the entire text area in landscape you literally can’t see what you’re typing, so I can’t do that anymore. I was a huge landscape-typing fan, I used to even own a side-slider keyboard phone. I bought the Moto Z initially because of the Livermorium side-slider keyboard Moto Mod… which never materialized.
My dream phone would probably be the size of a Pixel 4a but with a 16:9 aspect ratio and some kind of Moto Mod architecture for snap-on batteries and game controllers and the like. I’m still salty that failed.
GenderNeutralBro ( @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•1 year agoMakes sense. I’ve been considering moving to an open-source keyboard out of privacy concerns, none of which (in my experience so far) have good gesture typing. So I might switch back to double-thumbing it and end up in the same boat as you.
BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year agoRight?
The screen is larger than my Galaxy S4 was - the entire phone.
Prandom_returns ( @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ) English7•1 year ago“Professional”
I do not think it means what you think it means.