James RussellThe iPhones 15 (Pro and Regular) are by far the slipperiest iPhones since the 6 and continue a trend which is my least favourite thing about the iPhone in recent times. 🧵
As a primer, perhaps counterintuitively, it's worth remembering that the glossier something is, the grippier it is and the easier to hold and feel secure holding. Think slick tyres or trying to slide your palm down glass. Glass is grippy!
The iPhone 14 had aluminium rails in a matte finish (slippery), but a polished glass back = grippy. The iPhone 14 Pro was much slipperier because it had a frosted glass back (slippery) but at least had polished steel rails which at least gave some surface for secure purchase.
The iPhones 15 go a step further. The 15 has matte aluminium rails and now a frosted glass back = all slippery. The 15 Pro still has the frosted glass back and now has brushed titanium (slippery) so is also now all slippery ðŸ˜
Now, of course, most users use a case - then this becomes a non-issue. But presumably Apple spend all this time designing their phones to look so nice not just for press and marketing photos so it bewilders me they don't realise how hard they are to use, or choose to ignore it.
A phone with polished rails and a non-frosted glass back would be so so much better to handle and it's a real shame it doesn't exist.