Unless you're a woman who regularly wears pants and keeps your phone in your pocket (and I'm sure there are many), this may be an issue only for men of a certain age.
My age, to be specific.
I have an iPhone SE. It was provided by my employer, who also pays the monthly bill for it. Free phone, free data. That's a deal I can get behind.
This phone fits easily into my pants pockets, whether I'm wearing dress pants or jeans. Its relative portability is one of its strong points, as far as I'm concerned.
But there is a price to pay for a smaller phone.
If, like me, you have reached a point in life where reading glasses are a key element of your daily existence, a small phone screen can be a problem. You can't always tell what you're looking at when watching a video or looking at a photo. Text defaults to an impossibly tiny point size unless you're proactive in doing something about it.
It is, in short, quite often a pain.
I have thought about upgrading to a larger phone and footing the bill myself, but the issues there are patently obvious:
- The whole "footing the bill myself" thing
- The inability to stuff said phone conveniently into a pants pocket
The solution is likely a foldable phone. The trouble there? I'm an Apple/iPhone guy, and currently available foldable phones are all Android/Google-based. Apple is planning to release a foldable phone, but last I checked, this little piece of technology is at least two years away from hitting the market.
I could be legally blind by that point.
On balance, I guess I'll keep my free SE and squint every morning as I watch NHL hockey highlights on its tiny screen.
It's better than carrying around a much larger device, at least for me.
You know you're first-world spoiled when something like this is among the toughest issues you're wrestling with in life.
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