• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    I like the idea of a foldable phone but what I really want is a phone that folds enough to fit in my women’s pants pockets.

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      24 hours ago

      The other solution is to make women’s pants with pockets that can actually hold things.

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        21 hours ago

        They do, they’re just not skin tight. You can’t really fit much into a pocket in super tight jeans.

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          19 hours ago

          Yes and no… Women do complain about a lack of pockets, while simultaneously buying pants that physically don’t have room for pockets.

          But on the other side of the same coin, women’s heavy duty cargo pants have smaller interior pockets too. Like the exterior pouch pockets may be the same/equivalent size, but the main front and back pockets are often still tiny. There’s no real way to rationalize that or blame women for it, because that’s the entire point of the pants, and there is 100% enough room for larger pockets in those baggier pants.

          And no, they often can’t just buy men’s pants, because the cut is very different. Guys tend to have narrower hips and wider waists. Women wearing men’s pants will tend to have the waistband fit (but can’t get their hips into them) or be able to get their hips into the pants (but then need to cinch down the waist by a ridiculous and uncomfortable amount). Women’s pants tend to have more hip room and narrow waistbands, to account for that.

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            I am AFAB - been wearing mens pants for years and I don’t have a problem fitting into them. Probably largely depends on individual body shape and even then, taking measurements and matching it to the correct waistband/inseam size usually works out.

            My crackpot conspiracy theory is that women’s pants pockets are smaller in order to force women to buy and use purses.

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      15 hours ago

      Some of next years linux phones look quite compelling. Lora radios and powerful enough to pull off what canonical and Microsoft failed to do years ago.

      If they succeed, it will be absolutely devastating to an industry that absolutely deserves to be slapped around. One device that transforms to fill multiple demands based on what you plug it into. It’s the continuum concept without Microsoft tripping over its own dick.

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        15 hours ago

        Can you link to some of the Linux phones you are talking about. My next phone will be a linux phone and it’s 9+ months out.

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          14 hours ago

          I don’t remember. There were 2 I recently saw, one with interchangeable gable bottom face plates and the other…I don’t remember. I don’t save them anymore since half of these damn things never materialize but there’s so much effort in that space now and literally the entire world fucking hates the techbros now so it’s going to happen.

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        16 hours ago

        Personally speaking, requirements for a phone now include a high resolution camera, NFC payments, some sort of screen mirroring for cars.

        I had to revert from gOS because two of those were not working.

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        19 hours ago

        Most of them are. I can really only carry things in back pockets, but then it makes sitting awkward.

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      20 hours ago

      Or perhaps just get a pair of pants that doesn’t suck? Designing a phone around womens complete lack of self awareness seems not so good, it’s way to volatile.

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        19 hours ago

        I can see you don’t spent much time with women.

        Women aren’t choosing pants with shitty pockets intentionally.

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          That’s the result of women choosing it over and over again…If women got to their senses and actually started NOT buying that junk, what do you think all the big mega corps producing tons and tons of clothes will do? Continue producing same shit clothes or adapting the factories to new, more reasonable clothes?

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            You’re wrong about why women’s clothes don’t have pockets. Women were never given a choice to buy clothing with pockets.

            Initially, pockets were not accessible in women’s clothing due to the layers they were required to wear. After the suffragette movement when liberated women began to wear pants, designers intentionally kept pockets small to prop up the purse industry.

            Handbags are one of the most profitable items in the fashion industry.

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              17 hours ago

              Or just buy the few that actually exists. Thanks to the internet, you can order from many locations, just using a small device that fits your palm. Matter of fact, these days you can place an order with your voice in many locations as well.