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I'm right handed but I hold my phone with my left hand. Am I in the minority here?

I'm left handed but hold my phone in my left hand. Regardless, it seems like this phone isn't designed for people like us (unless you have much longer thumbs than I do!)

"Unlock your Zenfone 9 by touching your thumb on the conveniently located sensor on the power button at the right side of the phone — it’s as simple as that. Just a touch, and you’re in! We’ve banished the hassle!" Banished my ass...

Well… I do hold my phone in my left hand, but I’m also left handed. The one handed feature would be useless.

The issue is that when companies produce product like this, which ignore left haneded users, I get suspicious: What other details did they overlook?

It’s most certainly just a cost issue, ignoring 10-15% of potential users is cheaper than building two versions.

They could just build one phone with fingerprint sensor on both sides and allow on app chose which side works as unlock button and which one as volume button. I doubt those fingerprint buttons are very expensive. Esthetically would even would look better and more symmetric with 2 buttons on each side - 2 as volume button on one side, one as unlock button, another one custom shortcut, e.g. Open camera

I'm right handed and I too hold my phone with my left hand, but that's because I have to use my right hand to touch the screen. I have small hands and I'm unable to use my 74mm-wide phone one-handed. :(

I'm left handed but hold my phone in my right.

I'm the same, and I started using Niagara Launcher recently which made me ask the same question.

I started doing the same due to forearm pain

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