Or - and hear me out here - just making the case bigger and leaving room for things like a removable battery, a 3.5mm jack, etc is perfectly fine, as maybe a large razor blade is not the perfect form of the smartphone. Its a couple of mm.
I personally prefer thinner phones, as it makes it easier for me to reach every part of the screen and easier to put in my pockets. But it would be cool to see how such a phone would look.
I end up putting a case on to both protect the phone itself and the camera lenses, which just makes it thicker anyway.
I don’t care about a glass back, or the color, or whatever. Everyone has a smartphone. I’ve had BlackBerrys, Treos, the OG Droid, etc, I don’t see why anyone cares about that stuff, its not unique. Its just a phone. So for me, I’m buying it for its capabilities as a smartphone, the quality of the camera, and if I can use it throughout the day without it being dead or annoying to use.
The case on my phone has no impact on reaching anywhere since its just a couple of mm, but I also have larger hands so maybe it impacts others more. But I also haven’t seen a phone that doesnt easily go in a pocket in a long time. Even the biggest iPhone these days is like under 9mm, the biggest not ‘ruggedized’ android I can think of is the pixel 10 folder, and thats under 11mm I think.
Would 4-5mm make that much of a difference to your pocketability? If the bump has to stay the same for optics in the camera (which yeah, it pretty much does), that thickness will be consistent. What’s the difference of the rest of the phone being that depth?
Or - and hear me out here - just making the case bigger and leaving room for things like a removable battery, a 3.5mm jack, etc is perfectly fine, as maybe a large razor blade is not the perfect form of the smartphone. Its a couple of mm.
I personally prefer thinner phones, as it makes it easier for me to reach every part of the screen and easier to put in my pockets. But it would be cool to see how such a phone would look.
I end up putting a case on to both protect the phone itself and the camera lenses, which just makes it thicker anyway.
I don’t care about a glass back, or the color, or whatever. Everyone has a smartphone. I’ve had BlackBerrys, Treos, the OG Droid, etc, I don’t see why anyone cares about that stuff, its not unique. Its just a phone. So for me, I’m buying it for its capabilities as a smartphone, the quality of the camera, and if I can use it throughout the day without it being dead or annoying to use.
The case on my phone has no impact on reaching anywhere since its just a couple of mm, but I also have larger hands so maybe it impacts others more. But I also haven’t seen a phone that doesnt easily go in a pocket in a long time. Even the biggest iPhone these days is like under 9mm, the biggest not ‘ruggedized’ android I can think of is the pixel 10 folder, and thats under 11mm I think.
Would 4-5mm make that much of a difference to your pocketability? If the bump has to stay the same for optics in the camera (which yeah, it pretty much does), that thickness will be consistent. What’s the difference of the rest of the phone being that depth?