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For a smartphone in 2017, one hand is insufficient

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Do you remember, the last time you have used your smart phone entirely just with one hand? Oh, you don’t. Neither do I. You might have experienced this, you want to send a quick reply of two words with your smartphone while holding something, say a coffee cup, on your other hand. But that becomes a mission impossible. Then you are forced to keep the coffee cup somewhere just to use your smartphone for a few seconds. Smart phones are becoming larger and larger with respect to screen size as days go by. Although reduction in footprint and ever-increasing screen-to-body ratio are becoming the norm for any smartphone releasing in 2017, with the surging popularity of 5.5 inch screen size segment, it’s even more important to have a one-handed mode. Surely Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and others have developed one-handed mode for their respective phones, but none of them are really that usable or intuitive. The main one-handed mode methods are to Resize the screen size to make