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Comment by dangus | Hacker News Reader

Get a popsocket, give it a chance for a week.

All this time you’ve been spending with phones slipping out of hands has been wasted.

Not even remotely viable - this prevents slipping it into a pocket easily, or sitting flat on a desk. Plus it's dead ugly.

I have no problems slipping it into my pocket. But if you have tighter pants or smaller pockets I could understand that complaint.

It actually makes the phone sit more flat on the desk. Without it, the camera bump makes the phone wobble (I don’t use a case).

Plus, it stops the phone from being scratched by being placed or slid across a horizontal surface.

Like I said, try it before you knock it. It’s only a $10 investment and they probably take returns.

I think they’re an ugly hack :(

Function over form in this case.

You can also get them in colors that closely match your phone so they’re less conspicuous. The black aluminum one goes very well with the space grey iPhone.

Mine is custom and has a picture of my cat on it.

Unfortunately, the form isn't functional in the first place, and the recommendation to spend more money on making the form worse to provide a workaround for the lack of functionality out of the box? I can't stomach that personally.

I remain a resentful Apple customer. I hope a new phone comes out this year that is right sized, so I can actually become a happy customer, rather than an even more resentful customer a year from now when I am forced into an upgrade due to lack of security updates.

If you are resenting Apple for making larger phones and not having a long enough security update support period, wait until you find out what everyone else makes!

I’m painfully aware that the rest of the market is worse.

Apple is the best practical option, making me a resentful Apple customer since ~2018. I was a resentful Microsoft customer back in the early 2000s as well, for similar reasons.

If there was a better alternative, I would “vote with my wallet”, but unfortunately there isn’t.

I feel it’s important to note, primarily because Microsoft never claimed their customers were filled with joy and delight from their magical products, while Apple continues to do so.

I have no joy, or delight, from using my Apple products. I get even less joy and delight each time I give them more money. If there was some other product range that solved my needs at a similar price point, I would already be there.

OnePlus 7 Pro here. Just too big for one thumb to get to all the corners it needs to go to. Not a deal breaker for me, but slightly smaller would be great. Not sure how the pop socket would fix that.

It alleviates that problem because your hand doesn’t have to grip the corners of the phone to be able to hold the phone with one hand anymore. You can pivot the phone from the center without dropping it or having to shift your grip.

If you can’t imagine it, seriously, it’s a $10 thing. Just try it. Give it a week for you to get used to it. If you hate it you’re not out a lot of time, money, or effort.

Have to agree here, after putting one of my OnePlus the comfortability and ease of holding the phone is so much nicer.

I can also almost move my thumb to all four corners (top right is a little off)

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