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I personally think the original iPhone’s 3.5” screen was perfect, and I’m sad that my iPhone mini didn’t survive as a product line. My next phones screen will be big, and I’ll hate it but live with it.
https://www.noypigeeks.com/android/unihertz-jelly-star/
While hands come in different sizes the picture there gives an immediate feel for the product. Next you might feel you want one. 95.1 × 49.6 × 18.7 mm is more accurate but there is no feeling.
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It's hard to rail against market forces, where bigger seems to mean prosperity. The same model of SUV is always bigger as time goes on, and there seems to be no small pickups anymore. I've always wondered if modest people buy used devices and cars, and don't have a say in what new ones are like.
Old (er) people spend a lot of money. Old(er) people want larger screens and bigger cars because they're easier to overcome physical issues (sight and dexterity). This is my theory.
Still blows my mind that this is like that in countries that didn't go through a 70-year period of socialism.
Anyway, old people don't buy smartphones as much, at least from my observations. They still only use a phone for calls, so why bother? There exist dumb phones with large buttons and simple large UIs specifically for older people.
I'm curious if people actually use the IR in place of their TV remote as in the promo. For me personally, I think the friction of having to fire up an app first would preclude me from ever using it in earnest.
I've switched to using my phone as a TV remote, exclusively, but I realize I'm a bit of an edge case.
This is cool as an option. But, why oh why mustn't we have any 5 inch Android phone on the market? It's not as if there's no demand, as evidenced by iPhone SE on the iOS side. The last real Android choice was the Pixel 4a and beyond that, everything has been mega huge.
It's hard to rail against market forces, where bigger seems to mean prosperity. The same model of SUV is always bigger as time goes on, and there seems to be no small pickups anymore. I've always wondered if modest people buy used devices and cars, and don't have a say in what new ones are like.
SUVs being pushed so aggressively the US is because the margins are better and the segment is eternally protected by the Chicken Tax. The insane CAFE leniency for lardassed SUVs/"light trucks" is fought for tooth and nail because the margins on SUVs (especially full-size ones) are crazy.
Same thing happened with phones. Remember when a thousand dollar phone was stupid? Now that's what shit gets developed on, tested on, etc. It's just normal, and that's great for people who make phones.
Not enough modest people exist to really make an impact in sales numbers and even if they did, they don't really drive any more sales. I know multiple people that are very well off, money in the bank, with a nice house, multiple very nice (enthusiast) cars, that just don't give off the same FOMO effect as somebody in a shitload of debt living in a McMansion driving around a shiny new Navigator.
It's a bit too small, but I like that it's a thing. However, for my own use, I want something in-between. A 4" phone would be ideal. I'm still confused how there aren't any phones for people who still use a computer as their primary means of accessing the internet . Even for this one, the media review section makes it look like it's "to distract oneself from social media". As if a phone's primary purpose isn't to be…
While this is small, it is double the thickness of most modern phones.
Still, it is great to see a bit of creativity in the smartphone market. Most phones are pretty much the same these days.
I personally think the original iPhone’s 3.5” screen was perfect, and I’m sad that my iPhone mini didn’t survive as a product line. My next phones screen will be big, and I’ll hate it but live with it.
My current phone is an iPhone 13 Mini. My next phone will also be an iPhone 13 Mini unless it's completely unusable at that point, or Apple haven't got back to their senses.
It was a nice idea (as it introduced pain points of using it as a distraction device), but the battery life ended up being abysmal to the point that I couldn't trust it to complete a day. Having a tiny smart phone and then having to take a battery pack for it was absurdity.
It also led me to appreciate how much I'd come to rely on always having a good camera in my pocket. The picture quality was poor enough that the photos would leave me feeling genuinely quite sad.