• Hexagon@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    True, 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

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      1 year ago

      I 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 diagonal

      I prefer the former, and I’m thus using a 2017 5.2" Samsung Galaxy J5 I got for $50 and upgraded to Android 10.

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        1 year ago

        Right?

        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.

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          capacitive 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.

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            Oh, 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!!

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          1 year ago

          That’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?

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            It 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.

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      1 year ago

      This 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.