Khalifa Jayy
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Just found it a bit funny. .
(Different people, different preferences, different sized hands, etc. I know.)
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Image from the Verge's Galaxy Note 3 and iPhone 6+ reviews
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Just found it a bit funny. .
AbortedWalrusFetus
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How does usability with one hand change in a year? It either is or isn't.
sonycowboy
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The Verge is only one thing reviewing it
And aren't they constantly mocked for their Apple bias or is that another tech site, maybe Wired? Ah they're all the same to me.
Anyway, Note 3 is (slightly) wider than the iPhone 6+ and it's the width that factors into the one-hand use rather than the height.
Deadly Cyclone
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Wasn't this a year apart and different reviewers? Kind of stretching here...
Interframe
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I believe there is a feature with the new iPhone's where tapping on the home button twice shrinks down the UI elements/border to about half way down the screen so you can reach the top with the phone in one hand hand. So there's that I guess.
then maybe don't perpetuate the "bias" conspiracy
I don't think anyone at the verge has been an apple fanboy for the last three years. Of pic you listened to their old podcast all they did was sit around and shit on apple while praising their android phones.
I wish Shaq reviewed things.
seems rotten however you slice it
"Not too unwieldy to hold in one hand (I can physically make the fingers of one of my hands wrap around this device)" as opposed to "hard to use (as in, when I try to manipulate the phone through its input)". And even if we want to criticize The Verge or Apple, can't we do better than ignoring the entire review of the Galaxy Note just to make fun of the iPhone 6 or The Verge's attitude to it? (Also, The Verge didn't even fully review the phone yet, so why are you picking on them already?) Anyway, speaking of the Galaxy Note 3 review, here's how it ended:
He's making a very personal comment about what he thinks about this form factor, not making an editorial statement for The Verge. He also gave the phone 8.2 points out of a possible 10, so his opinion of it is still higher than what someone was making it out to be just now based on one sentence of the entire review.
Dan Seifert said:
He's making a very personal comment about what he thinks about this form factor, not making an editorial statement for The Verge. He also gave the phone 8.2 points out of a possible 10, so his opinion of it is still higher than what someone was making it out to be just now based on one sentence of the entire review.
biosnake20
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I've actually heard multiple tech sites say how surprised they are at how it feels in one hand. It seems that the roundness of the screen and edges combined with the width of the phone makes it feel better in the hand than the usual Phablet.
Blackstarhat
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people are just getting used to new tech 5.5 is the norm in phones now.
Kawhi Leonard laughs at phablets
tokyobanana
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It's 1mm wider. Your statement makes no practical sense.
Anton Sugar
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If a reviewer is going to make a statement as bold as "it's not a phone you can use with one hand" and yet another reviewer (from the same site) says the opposite about the same/similar-sized phone...that's a problem. Those kinds of statements should be qualified, somehow.
I don't really know how. Hand measurements seem silly.
And I don't see what being a year apart has to do with anything.
iPhone 6+
158.1 x 77.8 x 7.1 mm
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm
iPhone 6+ is more ergonomic and isn't as wide.
Apple's main concern with making a bigger phone was its width due to varying hand sizes.
Or you could just chalk it up to different reviewers.
so slightly wider?
Concerning the "1 year apart" and "journalists have had time to get used to large phones," the reason why that line of reasoning is off is that there have been dozens of phablet iterations for more than 3 years now. So if there was some amount of "adjustment period," it would have happened way before now.
Damon Bennet
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Actually it was the reachability of the top left corner of the screen, according to their own ads
LOL.
Yeah I could definitely see that being a problem, ill have to try it out when/if I get a 6+.
Valkyr Junkie
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Twilight Princess is an 8.8.
infiniteloop
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Then why post it?
Then there's nothing to be really said.
soundahfekz
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To be fair, 5C is intended as a budget phone where the Galaxy is a flagship. it SHOULD be clowned for the cheap plastic look
Anton Sugar
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LOL at anyone saying "people's hands have gotten used to the size!"
If you're going to criticize this image, put some thought and research into it. How long have 5" or more phones/phablets been around?
If you're going to criticize this image, put some thought and research into it. How long have 5" or more phones/phablets been around?
I've never understood the whole metal = better thing anyway.
Metal is an objectively terrible material to make a phone case out of. I got an idea, lets use a material that blocks radio waves to build this device that sends and receives radio waves, then we have to build these ugly cutouts the case for antennas and completely destroy the minimalist aesthetic that made us famous.
soundahfekz
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Who said it had to be metal to look quality? Some phones just look cheaper than others. OG iPhone set a quality standard for flagships. Many others make an effort like Sony (glass) and HTC (metal unibody), then you have samsung who has great features but the plastic and repetitive design leaves much to be desired.
I don't think its unfair at all to say that the Galaxy series looks kind of cheap when you're comparing it to other flagships. It's not objective, but its not an isolated opinion either.
"The Moto 360 is too aggressive. It's too big. It's too shiny. Its face is too large in comparison to its bezel. Its strap flops out from the edge of its case like a dog's tongue on a hot day"
From this pointles article about the Apple Watch. Criticism is necessary and useful when it's well supported, this is just pathetic.
From this pointles article about the Apple Watch. Criticism is necessary and useful when it's well supported, this is just pathetic.
So then the picture is meaningless? You need to step your thread game up.
Sick burn, bro.
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