If you have an android install Rotation Orientation Manager.
You can have your phone work upside down.
Now that phones are pretty much bezel-less it doesn’t make a difference how you hold it
Except for the under display fingerprint reader, the front camera, the back camera, the volume and power button locations, the speakers, shall I go on?
Most phones now days have camera set up so your fingers dont obfuscate the camera lences or smudge them when you hold it on your hand. Same with the front camera. If it it would be on the bottom part the navigation buttons would go over it --> more smudge on thr lense.
With buttons there is the design principle that buttons should work always similarry. Flipping the phone would flip volume settings, buttons and any ports. (Its a minor thing, but i think everyone has somepoint in their life used a software where buttons chance places depending what you are doing and its annoying. This is basically hardware version of that).
No reason here is not really hard to circumvent or even a real problem, but in the end, so small percentage of people need that feature, so why spend time doing it. Especially when it indroduces one new thing that needs to be debugged.
If you have an android install Rotation Orientation Manager. You can have your phone work upside down. Now that phones are pretty much bezel-less it doesn’t make a difference how you hold it
Except for the under display fingerprint reader, the front camera, the back camera, the volume and power button locations, the speakers, shall I go on?
The cameras and speakers will work fine with the phone upside down. Your pictures will just be at a slightly different perspective.
Everything else mentioned you got a point with.
It has little more nyance than that.
Most phones now days have camera set up so your fingers dont obfuscate the camera lences or smudge them when you hold it on your hand. Same with the front camera. If it it would be on the bottom part the navigation buttons would go over it --> more smudge on thr lense.
With buttons there is the design principle that buttons should work always similarry. Flipping the phone would flip volume settings, buttons and any ports. (Its a minor thing, but i think everyone has somepoint in their life used a software where buttons chance places depending what you are doing and its annoying. This is basically hardware version of that).
No reason here is not really hard to circumvent or even a real problem, but in the end, so small percentage of people need that feature, so why spend time doing it. Especially when it indroduces one new thing that needs to be debugged.
Agreed, and you should be turning your phone sideways for most photos and videos anyway!
I often then my phone upside down to get shots with the cameras at the bottom, too. Especially cat photos!
Except then you get the “jelly screen” effect