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At least someone’s thinking of your thumbs
Big phones are increasingly the norm. And aside from the obvious challenges of these handheld obsidian monoliths—such as “Where do I stash this thing?”—there is a more concrete problem, an issue of design: the way you hold your (pitiful, obsolete) phone now is not going to be the way you hold one of these monster mobiles. Consequently, the way mobile apps and games are designed will have to shift to accommodate your new iGrip. Scott Hurff at Quartz has leveraged a phone-holding survey from last year into heat maps that show the reach of your thumb on a phone of given…