corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhy can't we go back to small phones?www.spacebar.newsexternal-linkmessage-square173fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down126
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minus-squareImhotep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down4·2 months agopeople spend a third of their lives on those things. And while cumbersome, a big screen simply is better for media consumption only way I see smaller phones make a comeback is if we change our habits or if a new technology comes along
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoA bigger screen is better for text consumption, too. Perhaps especially for that. If you don’t know why, just wait ;D Seriously as a person getting on in years I always bump up the font size. And if you do this on a mini phone, you run out of usable space immediately. I wish there were small phone options, too, but I can see why big is the default.
minus-squareMadis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago new technology comes along I believe the RAZR foldables allow you to do almost anything on the front screen, and in the latest iterations the front screen is larger than Samsung’s.
people spend a third of their lives on those things. And while cumbersome, a big screen simply is better for media consumption
only way I see smaller phones make a comeback is if we change our habits or if a new technology comes along
A bigger screen is better for text consumption, too. Perhaps especially for that. If you don’t know why, just wait ;D
Seriously as a person getting on in years I always bump up the font size. And if you do this on a mini phone, you run out of usable space immediately.
I wish there were small phone options, too, but I can see why big is the default.
I believe the RAZR foldables allow you to do almost anything on the front screen, and in the latest iterations the front screen is larger than Samsung’s.