How to use an Android phone or an oversized iPhone with … – The Nation (Argentina)

With ever larger screens, mobile large feature shortcuts that allow you to tailor the display functions within reach of the thumb

The segment of mobile phones large, known in the jargon as phablets , took his first steps on the market in the hands of the Samsung Galaxy Note, a model equipped with a 5.2-inch screen. Now you can look like a mid-range model, but back then meant a breakthrough in the technology world, used in 2011 to computers smaller.

In recent years, the limits of the phablets were located between 5.5 and 6 inches (always measuring the size of the screen). In most cases, using the phone with one hand becomes a somewhat cumbersome task, given the size, since it is not easy to reach the top of the screen with your thumb.

Faced with such situations, both Apple and Google have implemented a series of shortcuts, each in their own way, to seize the thumb to access certain basic functions of phablets.

iPhone

After a growth spurt in the size of their screens, the number of phones Apple had to accommodate users with small hands. Just give two hits (without pressure) the Home button and the screen will be adapted to the functions located at the top within reach of the thumb. It is a very useful for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus and Plus iPhone 6S shortcut.

Android

On phones with Google’s operating system deployment shortcuts for the thumb is not standardized, and each manufacturer applies its own configuration. Some use gestures on the screen, others require activate a function in the configuration.

Even within a single manufacturer options are often different. For Samsung Galaxy S5 models and Galaxy Note 4 The function must be enabled to operate with one hand. And then, to adjust the operating system interface in a smaller window must make a gesture with his thumb from left to right.

In turn, in the Galaxy S6 Multi Window Edge is the function that allows the use of floating windows. Once activated in the configuration, the gesture on the touch screen must be performed from any of the corners located at the top of the phone.

The latest Huawei Mate 7 with 6-inch screen, has a function that is activated from the dropdown menu at the top. Once activated, set the distribution on the numeric keypad dialer and virtual Android buttons to the left or right to left or right handed.

Something similar happens with the G3 and G4 LG phone, whose function to operate with one hand applies arrangement dialer, and the virtual keyboard to type only the thumb.

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