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Sony Xperia 5 V review: Compact premium smartphone with professional camera (www.notebookcheck.net)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.