It's the differences in the aspect ratio. You cannot compare screen sizes based on the diagonal alone when the aspect ratios are different. A 6.0" 20:9 screen is smaller than a 5.7" 16:9 screen. And in terms of width, the 6.5" 20:9 screen is also less wide than the 5.7" 16:9 screen, which can matter for certain things (like typing).

Also what's not helping is the curved screen, I find it takes another few mm off in terms of usable screen area, which makes a screen feel smaller than its stated dimensions.

I do have a Galaxy tablet that seems huge to me and I was amazed to find it has better sound and video quality than my TV lol

Me too. I got the S23U and wouldn't mind having more horizontal real estate.

I kind of am in the "large phone" camp too, but one point I'd bring up: present-day women's fashion tends to not be as friendly to large pockets. If someone is female and doesn't want to use a handbag for their phone, small size may be a big deal. It's something I try to be sensitive of when I see someone complaining about large phones. If you're a guy, getting clothing with large pockets is easy. If you're a girl, it's a larger constraint.

I've seen a lot of women in tight jeans with small pockets and the majority of a large phone hanging out the top of the pocket.

I remember reading that having storage that went beneath skirts, with a slit to access it, used to historically be really common, but the 20th century shift in fashion towards more body-fitting dresses and then pants kind of killed that.

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Yeah.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-18/history-is-the-reason-dresses-hardly-ever-have-pockets/9057314

Do you find it frustrating that dresses and skirts hardly ever have pockets?

Even pants and jackets for women often don't have pockets you can actually put things in.

Clothes with pockets are a relatively new phenomenon, National Galley of Victoria textile and fashions curator Paola Di Trocchio said.

"In the 17th century women and men actually had external pockets," she told ABC Radio Melbourne's Hilary Harper.

While women who worked would wear these pockets on the outside of their clothing for ease of access, others wore the pockets under their skirts.

The large skirts in fashion at the time meant people could hide a lot in their pockets.

By this time men's clothes often included sewn-in pockets, because although women had begun to go out in public more "it was the men, typically, who handled money".

Women would often carry their items in a tiny bag, called a reticule, which eventually grew to a sensible size and became the modern handbag.

As for the future, Ms Di Trocchio said there's hope for pocket-lovers, with pockets potentially becoming larger and more common.

"Because we've got smartphones ... either our handbags or our pockets probably, design-wise, will respond because that's what humans are asking for, that's what they're desiring."

I prefer my Tab S8 over my 2019 iPad Pro, because all I use my tablet for is editing photos and watching media — but because it has user profiles, I can also share it with my young kids and control their app and content access, etc. So, Android is a very easy win for me in that regard.

Me. All my apps are on Android and also all the iPad killer apps I've been hearing about so far I'd rather use the desktop for.

Me. My tablet is open source. Walled gardens are useless for clients, too.

Tbh once you get an iPad you realise it's just a big iPhone. And then you never use it.

I would actually if it weren't for updates, but what I do on the tablet is so undemanding compared to phones that I made the concession for long term updates. Since the iPad for me is just a glorified comic reader most of the time. Didn't end up being the productivity laptop replacement I thought it would be other than writing on PDFs and drawing

I miss Tachiyomi and would actually get much more out of it than paperback. And vlc on ipad has struggled with playing some encoded x265 files compared to Android, and video options that are Foss so don't have ads or IAP are so lacking that that expensive paid options like Infuse is pushed.

And the file system is too restrictive. The nice specs seem to be held back so much by the OS. It is more filling the role a Kindle does for ebooks but for comics instead when it comes to the iPad for me. I wish it ran MacOS when you hooked it up to an external monitor or connected a keyboard to it. Although being able to use it as an external monitor with MacOS is really cool.

But, I am thinking of getting a Android tablet next time if there is one that has good custom rom community or at least official lineage OS support, since I would prefer the Android app alternatives for stuff like comics and video players and also being able to easily use emulators and play like DS games with the stylus would be fun.