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Post by swiftcoder »

piskov wrote: post #174
superb-owl wrote: post #161

All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!

People get old. Old people cannot see small text. Big text requires bigger screen to fit. One could argue that a lot of 50-ish people have pro max with iphone 5-ish screen estate. Small screens ain’t gonna happen

The bigger problem is that app and web designers have stopped accommodating smaller screen sizes. I can't use my bank's app on an iPhone mini, because the buttons end up off the bottom of the screen (and the app doesn't scroll). Ditto for a number of popular web apps.

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Post by hawski »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #268
apriljo wrote: post #127

I'd be paranoid all the time about breaking it by accidentally sitting on it. Thinner just means it won't have as much strength to resist being bent into an ass-shaped curve, right?

it's titanium, which is quite rigid compared to aluminum

In this case watch your toes!

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Post by oliv__ »

All I want is a new SE-sized iPhone with a headphone jack. I'll preorder right now if you want to collect my money

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Post by jdprgm »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #261
jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.

iPhone status symbol without having to haul around a huge bulky phone. Most users probably use/need 10% of what a max pro iPhone offers, but they want 100% of the max pro status. Now they can keep the status without needing to carry a chonker.

The idea of an iPhone still as a status symbol in 2025 seems strange to me. I understood it in 2008. They are so commonplace and also not really that expensive where it is a financial flex like some watch that cost 10k+ or something.

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Post by asadotzler »

huvarda wrote: post #234
StephenSmith wrote: post #45

Who actually wants a thinner iPhone?

i'd take a phone 5 times thicker if it meant i got a week of battery life instead of a 5 hours

Not sure you'd like the weight. All the major phone makers have consumer research saying they've reached the limits of weight comfort and many makers are working hard to pull back from those limits.

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Post by Yxven »

dan353hehe wrote: post #273
Nition wrote: post #249

It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?

No kidding. I just want one that I can use one handed again. I’m on the IPhone SE, have hands that can play an octave + 2 additional keys on a piano, and I can’t reach the whole screen with a single hand. I’m probably just holding it wrong.

The trick to this is to attach a handle to the back of it. I'm using one that telescopes from the "popsockets" brand (I'm unaffiliated and have no idea how it compares with other brands). It makes it possible for me to access all parts of my screen holding it one handed. It should be a standard feature.

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Post by amilios »

pshirshov wrote: post #287

I don't feel like I need a thin phone. I need a smartphone which can last for a week after a single charge. From what I understand, the energy density in modern battery processes is enough to pack 100 Wh battery into a phone, but for some reason we are stuck with 20 Wh for years.

I believe the counterargument here is that we've gotten used to phones being relatively thin, and people have learned to charge their phones every night anyway. Something about stated vs. true desires, just like with the Minis where people said they wanted smaller phones but then nobody bought them. I believe it might be a similar thing where people say they want thicker phones with big batteries but they won't actually buy them when they realize they will be noticeably thicker and heavier.

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Post by frereubu »

piskov wrote: post #174
superb-owl wrote: post #161

All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!

People get old. Old people cannot see small text. Big text requires bigger screen to fit. One could argue that a lot of 50-ish people have pro max with iphone 5-ish screen estate. Small screens ain’t gonna happen

My eyes aren't great - I need three different sets of glasses: reading, office, long distance - and I'm clinging on to my 13 mini, desperately hoping that they in fact end up making something smaller. Granted, I bet I'm not the median buyer, but I would instantly upgrade to an iPhone that's around the size of the 4.

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Post by krater23 »

dan353hehe wrote: post #273
Nition wrote: post #249

It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?

No kidding. I just want one that I can use one handed again. I’m on the IPhone SE, have hands that can play an octave + 2 additional keys on a piano, and I can’t reach the whole screen with a single hand. I’m probably just holding it wrong.

I have a Unihertz Jelly Star, it fits in my hand and it works great.

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Post by metasaval »

Nition wrote: post #249

It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?

Every time a new iPhone comes up people on hacker news pine for a new mini, which I understand. But everytime someone has to bring back up that the 12 and 13 minis were the worst selling sku two gens in a row, with at one point the 13 mini only attributing to 3% of 13 sales [1].

I'm sorry, but the market has spoken. And there's Android phones in that form factor if you really want it.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

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