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You know what I want? I know it’s a pretty hot take. I want manufacturers to give me what I want.
Miss proper small phones with 6-inch screens or less?
No, my phone has a screen size of ~4 inches.
6 inches is not small. Small would be like 4 inches or less.
4 inches is definitely above average…
I’m a folder not a shower!
There haven’t been any small phones for about 10 years.
unihertz titan pocket. love mine
It still folds out to a fairly big device. Unless you’re planning on using it always folded, that’s not it.
I mean a regular, normal form factor phone, not a foldable.
irrelevant. tiny phones. They stopped making smaller screen phones because no one was buying them.
Ok, I won’t buy a new phone then :)
Then said manufacturers can get fucked.
I guess I’m running my pixel 5 into the ground then… Tbh I miss my 5 inch pixel 2. That felt ideal to me.
Pixel 4a was such a nice phone in terms of form factor.
My p5 died and I got a p8a which isn’t much bigger. I miss my Nexus 5.
My pixel 6 is just a touch bigger than I’d like, running it til no more security updates then looking at dumb phones. Miss my old flip phone
I wish. Mine literally fell apart
I had to refurbish mine a few times, the power button wore enough that it fell out, a couple screen replacements, and a few battery replacements. It’s not too bad to repair as long as you don’t carelessly put generic aftermarket battery adhesive over the fingerprint ribbon cable 😳 I have a bucket of pixel 5 parts at this point.
Replaced 2 power buttons that fell out, plus a spicy battery, but the screen was trying to fall out after that and when the button fell out again I just gave up
Hmm maybe I’m just lucky but I never had issues with the screen falling out unless I misaligned the adhesive or didn’t clean the edge enough beforehand. I use the black plastic piece in the ifixit kit that’s shaped like a flat head screwdriver to scrape the inside edge clean of goo.
Why do we call them smartphones? They are phablets.
Because phablet became mainstream so it doesn’t make sense to have a different word for them anymore.
Because phablet is a stupid word.
and smartphone isn’t?
Maybe a bit redundant these days. They’re effectively just “phones”.
Used to be that the label was needed to differentiate from earlier feature phones, but even the “dumb phones” of today primarily run some slimmed down flavor of Android. No one can escape the data harvest.
Dumb phones mostly run java or a lightweight OS like Firefox OS. Android is bloated.
Remember the term “PDA” “Personal Digital Assistant?” From like the PalmOS days?
At this point a smart phone is a PDA that ate a cell phone to gain its power. I never hear the term PDA in the real world anymore, but video games use it for in-universe gadgets often used to justify the inventory menu or whatever. Subnautica does it.
My iPhone 12 mini is the perfect size. I don’t want to carry a damn tablet in my pocket. Maybe if I spent all day staring at it, I would, IDK.
There’s unihertz, but their quality is unfortunately questionable. I’ve ordered a Clicks Communicator. It’s actually a similar size to a phablet, but using that space for a physical keyboard feels like I’m sending a message to the establishment.
I’m writing this on a King Kong Mini 2 and it’s sick, plus it only cost $100
Could work as a banking device…
I want that minus the “rugged tech” aethetic, current gen wireless, micro sd slot, degoogled os options, at least that much bezel, and user swappable battery.
It’s got some of those – the camera is shit but it’s literally got screws on the back so you can replace the battery, plus it’s got 2 SIM and 1 microSD slot. Idk about the wireless or roms
oh neat that all of it is accessible by opening the back. wireless is just because my network provider has dead spots if you don’t have 5g because some of the previously dead zones they just put up new 5g towers without the older support.
Oh I see, I didn’t know that was a problem that existed :/
If the Aiphor Bluefox NX1 had 5G and wasn’t prone to have the screen come loose I would probably try it. I prefer that one’s form to the rounded back of the Unihertz Jelly.
But with google working on making android their own walled garden I’m more interested in trying something like Jolla.
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026
I’ll continue with my Nokia C2-01 then.
For me the iPhone 6s is the perfect size phone.
If you compare the newer iPhone physical size with the 6s it’s about the same. Which I think is best.
Now that phones abandoned the idea of a stable aspect ratio screen size has become irrelevant to me. So I look at the phones dimension. And there is still small phones on the market, they just try their best to pretend to be bigger than they are.
That said I do wish the Mini IPhones lived long enough to get USB C. Was the perfect size for it to be one handed.
I love my Unihertz Jelly Star with its 3" screen! So small, its not easy to use so it stays in my pocket
I got a Jelly Star to use as a music player and I very seriously considered using it as my full-time phone for that exact reason. The only thing that held me back is I take a lot of pictures and the camera wasn’t quite up to snuff, and I’m not prepared to commit to also carrying a decent camera around all the time.
I mean a S26 just weighs 167g. Thats still 30g more than the Z1 Compact i had back in the day. But overall its like 20mm taller and 5mm wider. Its alright. For the modern day i think its a perfectly fine small phone. Its sadly Samsung though and they can fuck themselves. I will never buy anything from them again after past experiences with different products. But i wouldnt say the small phone is dead. Sure you cant buy a 3,5"- 5" screen phone anymore. But my eyesight gets worse by the minute and i dont want a that small smartphone anymore. Rather i would get myself a shitty feature phone where the display doesnt matter at all.
Handlingwise i would be really happy about 16:9 screens again. My thumbs arent tall enough for the upper third of most phones since the last 7 years or so. 19:9 up to 21:9 is IMHO such a stupid format. But i also really want my headphone jack and sd card reader back… It is what it is.
Manufacturers killed compact phones because the same display panel costs the same whether it is 6.1 or 6.7 inches, so bigger screens unlock higher price tiers. The Xiaomi 17 and vivo X300 proving 7,500mAh batteries fit inside 6.3-inch bodies demolishes every excuse these brands hide behind.
