How do you hold your S8 / S8 Plus?

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Normally I would have my hand and pinky supporting the bottom but since there are minimal bezels, I find myself relying on using my fingers to grip the tiny side edges because weight is unevenly distributed and the phone is long. How are you holding your phone?
 

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Left hand also, since I'm right-handed and the s8+ is a bit too big to comfortably use it one handed.
The Samsung clear cover give me several holding options but sometimes my pink does block the speaker.
 

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This is proving more interesting than I had thought it would. Seems a lot of people use it with their non-dominate hand. Are you folks using your dominant hand to touch the screen or one-handing it?

To be more specific on my way-- right hand (dominant hand), one-handed, with pinky on the bottom. I have small-ish hands for a man. Takes a bit of maneuvering to get my thumb to the full other side of the screen.

When I'm traveling or boating, I put a strap made for a Nintendo Wii remote on my case so that I don't have to worry about dropping it.
 

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This is proving more interesting than I had thought it would. Seems a lot of people use it with their non-dominate hand. Are you folks using your dominant hand to touch the screen or one-handing it?

To be more specific on my way-- right hand (dominant hand), one-handed, with pinky on the bottom. I have small-ish hands for a man. Takes a bit of maneuvering to get my thumb to the full other side of the screen.

When I'm traveling or boating, I put a strap made for a Nintendo Wii remote on my case so that I don't have to worry about dropping it.

How do you reach the top of the screen controlling it one handed with your thumb?
 

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This is proving more interesting than I had thought it would. Seems a lot of people use it with their non-dominate hand. Are you folks using your dominant hand to touch the screen or one-handing it?

To be more specific on my way-- right hand (dominant hand), one-handed, with pinky on the bottom. I have small-ish hands for a man. Takes a bit of maneuvering to get my thumb to the full other side of the screen.

When I'm traveling or boating, I put a strap made for a Nintendo Wii remote on my case so that I don't have to worry about dropping it.

While my right hand is the dominant hand, I have been using my left hand for many things like drinking coffee using my phone, trackpad and even sometimes i tend to use my mouse (computer accessory) in my left hand.
 

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In all fairness, my right thumb is 0,5" shorter due to surgery a long time ago. The scar takes away some feeling, add to that I always preferred my left ear for making calls. The hearing is probably slightly better on that side, which in turn could be caused by my lazy left eye I was born with.
And I'm not kidding about that.

But since I use my dominant hand for writing, I also use it for typing on my phones.
And I suspect Samsung made a mistake with that in placing the fp scanner suited for people holding it in their right hand. Which will most likely be left-handed people, which in turn is about 20 percent of the world population. Or was it 10?

I see some using it one handed, and most others one hand holding and other hand typing/ two handed holding and typing.
 

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I'm also a kind of guy who will hold it with the left hand, supported by my pinky, though I'm not afraid of getting my right hand for stuff like the notification center.
 

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