• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Really, you want a narrow phone? The difference in width is the biggest thing I dislike about the new longer-aspect-ratio phones. I used to use a Moto z, which was 16x9 aspect ratio instead of the modern 20x9 and that’s the biggest thing I miss - the typing that wide screen was heavenly.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using gesture typing for about a decade now. On my Pixel 7, I have Gboard set in mini mode so I can swipe over it with one thumb. For me, a narrower phone would make typing easier, not harder.

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        1 year ago

        That’s funny, I have the same phone, but I’m naturally a two-thumb typer. When I gesture-type I still find it okay, though even without the mini mode. I’m a short guy but I guess I’ve got big flexible thumbs.

        I used to lie down on the sofa and surf Reddit two-thumb typing in landscape mode on my old Moto Z, which is why I really miss 16:9 screens - on 20:9 screens the keyboard obscures the entire text area in landscape you literally can’t see what you’re typing, so I can’t do that anymore. I was a huge landscape-typing fan, I used to even own a side-slider keyboard phone. I bought the Moto Z initially because of the Livermorium side-slider keyboard Moto Mod… which never materialized.

        My dream phone would probably be the size of a Pixel 4a but with a 16:9 aspect ratio and some kind of Moto Mod architecture for snap-on batteries and game controllers and the like. I’m still salty that failed.

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          1 year ago

          Makes sense. I’ve been considering moving to an open-source keyboard out of privacy concerns, none of which (in my experience so far) have good gesture typing. So I might switch back to double-thumbing it and end up in the same boat as you.