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Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by sircastor »

bedast wrote: post #158

I have an iPhone 12 mini. I switched to iPhone with the XR and felt it was too big. My old Pixel 2 feels larger than the 12 mini with it's 5" screen versus the 12 mini's 5.4", and that's because it physically is overall larger. When the iPhone 12 lineup was announced, the main talking point about the mini among reviewers and whatnot was how poor battery life will be. To be honest, once I disabled the 5G (I'm not anti…

I love my iPhone 12 Mini, and I was really disappointed when I found out the mini line is likely being dropped with the next generation (It's almost certain)

Being very honest, I think the original iPhone was the right size - through the iPhone 4. I appreciate that people wanted larger screens, and larger screens accommodate larger batteries, but I think the 3.5" screen of the early iPhones made for a great size.

Oh well.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by izacus »

cortesoft wrote: post #197
reaperducer wrote: post #120

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I don't understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the "scale at all costs" mentality. It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world. On HN, if you can't serve a billion people, your product is niche. In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products. I…

> In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products. But rarely something as expensive to create as a smart phone.

Really? Because things like cabriolet cars, speciality cars, high-end audio equipment, luxury furniture and many others exist.

If anything, mobile phone market is exceedingly horrible because of consolidation into a single product with not much choice.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by hallway_monitor »

doliveira wrote: post #253
hammock wrote: post #216

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Sometimes websites with big popups fuck with you, but then again we ought to be avoiding those websites anyway. I haven't noticed any issues with apps. Typing is much easier than you would think. With swipe typing it's almost at par.

Cool. What about typing passwords, codes, numbers? I'd wager without social media those would be the most common things I'd type

Lastpass mostly prevents needing to manually enter login info, even though the automatic activation only works 70% of the time.

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Post by pge »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #329
dan-robertson wrote: post #226

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Yeah you can imagine two purposes for the mini: 1. Cheaper iPhone 2. You don’t want to carry a big iPhone and you have a Mac/iPad nearby anyway for anything complicated so a big phone is unnecessary. The second case should motivate wanting eg their ‘pro’ cameras in the small phone but the first case motivates making it cheap and low-margin. You can also imagine a world where apple markets a mini phone as also being a…

But they could have both things in two separate models. Wasn't the 11 pro the size of the mini / SE? I don't remember whether there was an 11 mini, but it seems to me that 11 pro / SE were exactly that, and the current minis / se are the size of the 7/8/se/11 pro. I the time I couldn't justify buying a new phone, but I remember late last year, when I figured I could start looking, I was possibly contemplating getting…

first gen SE is smallest, and both it and the 2nd/3rd gen SE are smaller than the 11 pro (though the latter is closer, only 0.2" smaller in both length and width).

The iphone 12 mini and 13 mini are both smaller than the 2nd/3rd gen SE but larger than the 1st gen SE.

The 2nd/3rd gen SE is the same size as the iphone 8.

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Post by oceanplexian »

davee5 wrote: post #270

Hi Eric, I'm a hardware startup guy myself (our paths have crossed) with the distinction that my own "very specific set of skills" has been honed at smartphone megacompanies and smartphone startups. OSOM, Essential, HTC, Samsung, Apple. I've designed and built a lot of phones. I'm building one now. I think this is a noble effort, I personally prefer pocketable phones too, but I think there are nigh-insurmountable hur…

> Big companies are drowning in market data. They know some people really, really want small phones. But it's a long-tail opportunity they're willfully ignoring

I would argue that they don’t know what people want at all, since market data just reinforces previously held assumptions. For example if you surveyed people in 2006 what kind of phone they wanted, most consumers would probably ask for a better flip phone. It wasn’t until Apple came along and defined a new market that Smartphones even became a thing in the mainstream consciousness.

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Post by hammock »

doliveira wrote: post #253
hammock wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes websites with big popups fuck with you, but then again we ought to be avoiding those websites anyway. I haven't noticed any issues with apps. Typing is much easier than you would think. With swipe typing it's almost at par.

Cool. What about typing passwords, codes, numbers? I'd wager without social media those would be the most common things I'd type

I save everything in Google, which helps me autofill passwords, credit cards, addresses, emails, etc.. ducks
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