Thin smartphones are preferable despite the necessary compromises in camera and battery performance.

“but I don't know what I was smoking when I was like okay with phones being as thick as they were. You know, >> that [laughter] bad. >> This not that bad. >> It used Okay. I used to have the opposite take. >> Okay. Okay. This this phone radicalized me. >> So what's your now your fully thin phone pled”

When displaying content on a wide screen, vertical tabs waste too much space compared to horizontal tabs.

“I have more horizontal pixels, so I will waste more of them on tabs. I have less vertical pixels, so I want to scroll less by having less things wasting my vertical pixels.”

He thinks the action button is a good tradeoff.

“I'm on team action button some other people may disagree with me”

Manufacturers should use pull tabs for batteries to facilitate easier removal and replacement during repairs.

“It's nice that Red Magic gives you these pull tabs to lift out the battery. Wish more manufacturers would DO THAT.”

Taking devices apart is a way to understand how they are manufactured and how they function.

“taking things apart seeing how they work how they're put together how they're manufactured um that's kind of what I enjoy doing and what I enjoy showing off”

The user experience of scrolling on e-ink smartphones is poor, making them suboptimal for general use.

“scrolling sucks on eBay. It just does. Like it's it's bad. It's ugly. It leaves artifacts. It's just bad.”