Simple solution: swipe up on the carousel to make the cards full-screen, then browse. The whole UI works on this paradigm, so it may not be obvious at first, but it will be if this style of app continues.
I'm sure he's aware of that. This is a major element of the UI which shouldn't require you to move to another screen to enjoy.
Swiping near the bottom with my thumb hasn't bothered me so far, but the text is quite hard to read at that small of a size. I would also like to those cards a bit larger in the future.
Agreed about the text size. Things look great, feel good and it's easy to follow what's going on after a short amount of time but it can be hard to read.
you can also see parts of more than one post in occasions, and have a sense of "place". with the cards, you don't get that at all.
cards seem to work better as implemented by google -- cards don't really have as much in common between cards.. they're one-offs. a newsfeed is a long story board, such as it is.
Swiping near the bottom with my thumb hasn't bothered me so far, but the text is quite hard to read at that small of a size. I would also like to those cards a bit larger in the future.