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by causality0 1066 days ago
I don't understand how the smartphone market is so enormous but the variety is so small. Why do I have to carry around a phone over twice as tall as it is wide when the space my thumb can reach is roughly circular? If I'm holding my phone balanced in my hand I can neither reach the navigation area at the bottom nor the notification area at the top. If I get a phone small enough to reach the whole screen it's so narrow I'm wasting a ton of potential width.

Sell me a 16:9 phone again dammit.

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> Resolution: 480 × 854 pixels

This phone is 16:9: 480*16/9 = 853.333.

16:8 is too much but 16:9 is what you want?
To be honest I'd prefer 16:10 but 16:9 is a more realistic dream.