Holding it one - handed, while resting my little finger on the base of the device, I can do most things easily enough, especially when using the two - taps - on - the home -
button Reachability mode to bring the top of the screen down to within your thumb's reach.
Not exact matches
As far as port, sensor, and
button placement is concerned: on the back, we have our main camera sensor and a LED flash, there's no heart - rate sensor on the A series; on the front, we have our proximity and ambient light sensors, a front - facing camera, earpiece, display, back and recent app capacitive keys, and a home
button with an integrated touch - based fingerprint sensor (A5 and A7 only); on the bottom, there's a microphone, 3.5 mm headphone jack, MicroUSB port, and the speaker grille; on the top, we have nothing other than the secondary microphone, and, just like the new GS7, there's no IR blaster on board; and the volume
buttons are located on the left side of the aluminium frame, while the power
button is located on the right side — all three
buttons are very tactile with excellent
reachability and positioning.
Double tap the Home
button again to leave
Reachability mode.
The phone feels very sturdy (in part due to the thickness), the materials feel premium and the ergonomics are very good for a large and thick device, with good
button placement and
reachability.
I have relatively small hands, and I had a lot of trouble using the device, even with Apple's
Reachability feature that lets you better reach content towards the top of the screen by double - tapping the home
button.
Reachability allows users to double - touch the home
button to slide the contents of the display down and make them reachable, but it only lasts for a few seconds.
With this, the company claims that users can do more with the
button, including multitasking, accessibility and
reachability functions, as well as support for Siri and Apple Pay.
The new feature is very similar to Apple's
reachability option on the iPhone 6 Plus which allows you to reposition the contents of the screen in the lower half of the screen so that you can reach poorly - placed
buttons with one hand while holding the phone.
As you can see in the GIF above, a double - touch on the home
button (don't press the home
button, just touch it twice) invokes
reachability on all iPhones with a home
button.
One only need look to the home
button to discover that the fabled simplicity of iOS is long - gone: when the phone is asleep, double - clicking the home
button opens Apple Pay; when awake, the same action opens the multitasking view; tapping it twice activates
Reachability; and holding it down brings up Siri.