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The best phone I ever had was a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact. I would still be using it if it wasn't too slow to run modern versions of android. This is one of those things that just makes me feel so out of touch with the rest of the world. Does everyone else have giant pockets and giant hands? Does everyone use their phone with two hands and carry a bag everywhere? Is it just a trend like small phones were a trend before smartphones? Why do people want these giant phones?

>>kbrack+(OP)
> Why do people want these giant phones?

Most people only use computers at work, solely relying on smartphones for communication, media, shopping, etc.

It makes sense to have a big screen at inconvenience of having to carry it around.

What surprises me is how small the demand for small phones is. I have absolutely no need for a big screen - I have a monitor.

>>kbrack+(OP)
For more and more people, their phone is their primary (or only) device. On a day to day, I have more face time with my phone than my personal laptop.

>>kbrack+(OP)
> Does everyone use their phone with two hands

A lot of us do, yes.

> and carry a bag everywhere?

As a guy in 36" waist jeans (yeah I need to lose a few kg)... I can fit an iphone 16 pro max in my pocket pretty comfortably.

> Why do people want these giant phones?

Well, one reason is that I'm getting older and don't find it as easy to read tiny text on tiny screens any more. Another reason is that I sometimes watch streaming services on there.

Also it's shiny and the battery lasts forever.

>>kbrack+(OP)
Been happy with Sony Xperia 10 series, which is similar width, but taller as tallness really do not annoy me. Also massive battery. Sadly they are going to stop selling those here, so I might just need to go to Samsung next year...

>>ivanje+q
I never ever use my laptop anymore outside of work. I never surf the web, read, order stuff etc from my laptop. It’s basically useless now if I don’t code or use pro apps. So a bigger phone is confortable because some websites suck on smaller screens and using an iPad is too big sometimes

>>kbrack+(OP)
> Does everyone use their phone with two hands

They have to because of stupid pinch-to-zoom. You either have to balance the phone in the palm of your non-dominant hand (literally switch the phone from one hand to the other) while pinching with your dominant hand, or do a sort of goatse thing with your thumbs while holding the phone in both hands.

Screw-to-zoom is a million times better: draw a spiral to the right and you get closer, spiral to the left and you get farther away (agreeing with the "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey" standard.) Easily done with any single finger, or even with the thumb of the hand holding the phone (for people with adequate thumb-wrestling skills.)