What hand do you hold your iphone in?

[Daveoc64]

...Both. Pretty frequently. I thought this was normal.

I would say it is.

The iPhone is a flexible device. You can use it to do a lot of different things and you'll generally need to hold it in two hands or rotate the device when you are doing different things.

Right handed people would generally hold a pen in their right hand, and write onto the notepad that they are holding in their left hand.

That's why a lot of right handed people hold the phone in their left hand (and type with their right).

 

[AbSoluTc]

I hold it with my third leg. Yeah, it's that big!

Left or right hand. Whatever works at the time.

 

[djgulia]

I'm left-handed.

Talking on the phone - hold it in the left, unless I need to write something down, then in the right or use my right shoulder.

Using apps and such, hold it in my right. This is when I lose bars.

Texting or writing emails - hold it in landscape.

 

[Aero26]

Righthanded. Hold my phone in the left so I can poke with my right.

 

[a.jfred]

Right handed, but I'm also somewhat ambidextrous, and primarily hold my phone with my right hand, including when I use it to make calls. It feels completely unnatural to me to hold it the other way for calls.

Of course, I hold all phones to my right ear, even if it's a corded phone situated to my left. It's easier for me to multi-task, and easier for me to hold the phone to my shoulder via tilting my head when I need both hands

 

[Vertigo50]

I hold it in my right hand when talking on the phone, and usually don't cover the seam.

I hold it in my left hand for everything else, so I can use my right for tapping and swiping. I hold it exactly like Steve Jobs does in EVERY KEYNOTE EVER. You know, the way he says not to hold it. I also tend to hold it the way people do in the iPhone ads. You know, the wrong way.

 

[RonHC]

Im right handed but i use my left hand for answering calls while i use my right hand for primary use [ie: righting on paper]

 

[MorganK]

Right handed and hold my phone with my right hand.

 

[UneElle]

Right handed - But hold my iPhone 4 in my left hand 100% of the time. Just as I did my 3G. The difference now is that I'm basically holding my phone with my left thumb, index, and middle finger about half-way up the phone's edge where I always cupped my 3G in my left palm before.

 

[Ish]

I'm glad you asked. With all the reports of it being awkward for left-handed people I thought it more likely that right-handed people held it in their left.

I'm a bit ambidextrous too, but write with my right hand and hold the phone in my left.

 

[MICHAELSD]

I'm right-handed and I notice myself holding my iPhone in my left hand more so than my left hand. I also notice that I've been able to get my signal to drop without realizing I was covering the bottom left of my iPhone 4. Keeping the iPhone 4 in the "death grip" position seems to be the most secure way to hold the iPhone with a very low chance that you'll drop it.

 

[bier-meister]

I'm right handed.

Take calls with my left hand, have had some dropped calls.

Hold the phone in my left hand and use the right for navigating.

Data entry is done in landscape.

 

[Grayburn]

Righthanded. Hold my phone in the left so I can poke with my right.

Same here.

 

[insidmal]

whichever hand is closest

 

[Davvido]

Right-handed, thumb-based.

 

[lawrence32]

I hold it with my left hand because my right hand does not work very well because of my disability. I'm trying to keep the bottom left corner off of my skin but sometimes i touch it and the call is lost almost instantly. ATT is real bad in my area. So for now until my case comes in the mail I use speaker phone with it sitting on my desk.

I do love the phone though.

 

[R94N]

I'm left handed so I hold phones in my left hand. However, because the rest of my family are right handed and I've gotten used to the mouse being on the right I use external mice with my right hand.

BTW, you should've made this a poll instead.

 

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I'm a righty, & pretty much always hold it in my right hand. I only use my left if I'm eating, writing, driving, etc.

 

[TroyBoy30]

right on calls, left when doing anything else

 

[stahl7639]

Right handed.

Hold the phone in the right hand for phone calls, left hand for text/general browsing of the phone.

 

[Sherifftruman]

Just wondering why so many news articles say don't get an iphone 4 if you are left-handed. I would imagine the problem affects right-handed users more than left-handed users.

I am right-handed, and I almost always hold my phone in my left hand. Holding the phone in my weak hand allows my dominant hand to:
- do all the tapping on the phone
- control the mouse if I'm talking to someone while at my computer
- control the steering wheel if using the phone while driving

I do exactly the same thing.

I am not that old (not quite 40) but I wonder if this is more the case with people who grew up using a phone that had a seperate handset and dialling mechanism. You held the handset to your ear and mount and dailed the phone on the wall or table with your other hand.

Heck, even when we got the new Trimline phone with the rotary dial in the handset part, you still had to use the other hand to crank the dial around***. It was only when they came out with the Trimline styles with tone dialing that you could even begin to dial with the hand you were holding the phone with.

***(hah, I remember calling a girl in high school and being too chicken to dial that last number, holding the dial against the metal stop till finally on the seventh or eight try, I let it go to complete the call - I guess I am old after all )