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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
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Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#1826" doesn't register as small to me at all lol. The HTC 8X was 4.3" and that was a "normal" sized phone for me. I used the Palm Phone (PVG100) (3.3" screen) (basically the size of a credit card) [ https://www.ricklohre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dsc_097... ] as long as I could until it became too slow to use as software got slower and increasingly battery-hungry and I had to give it up last year. Right now I have…
you have to compare the actual phone sizes, not the screen sizes. bezels have gotten smaller.
the article's "small phone" benchmark with a 5.4" screen is almost the same size in every dimension as your benchmark of the HTC 8x
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/HTC-8XT,Apple-iPhone-...
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#1836" doesn't register as small to me at all lol. The HTC 8X was 4.3" and that was a "normal" sized phone for me. I used the Palm Phone (PVG100) (3.3" screen) (basically the size of a credit card) [ https://www.ricklohre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dsc_097... ] as long as I could until it became too slow to use as software got slower and increasingly battery-hungry and I had to give it up last year. Right now I have…
At $138 I can't imagine that the Bluefox NX1 will perform very well. (By the way from some reason aiphor.com automatically redirects me to google.com unless I disable Javascript.)
Doesn't sound stellar, but 2x A75 and 6x A55 is probably not the worst experience? Helios G81. 12nm process. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mediatek-Helio-G81-Ultra-Proce...
An even slightly more mid-range spin on this would be very very viable.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re way too cynical and have let your cynicism cloud history. The first phablets were probably the Galaxy Note line starting in 2011 which was met with some skepticism due to the size of them. These were well before the edge to edge screen days. So you had 5.7 inch screens with a bezel. They were huge but I would routinely see small women pull these things out of their hand bags and press a device that obscured al…
The general population wants larger phones because they are addicted to their screens.
I just want a decently large screen because I have old eyes. A 6.1” phone works fine for me.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
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Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#1866" doesn't register as small to me at all lol. The HTC 8X was 4.3" and that was a "normal" sized phone for me. I used the Palm Phone (PVG100) (3.3" screen) (basically the size of a credit card) [ https://www.ricklohre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dsc_097... ] as long as I could until it became too slow to use as software got slower and increasingly battery-hungry and I had to give it up last year. Right now I have…
you have to compare the actual phone sizes, not the screen sizes. bezels have gotten smaller. the article's "small phone" benchmark with a 5.4" screen is almost the same size in every dimension as your benchmark of the HTC 8x https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/HTC-8XT,Apple-iPhone-...
>you have to compare the actual phone sizes, not the screen sizes. bezels have gotten smaller.
This is true, and it's hard to fully assess without a tool like you linked, which is pretty neat.
>the article's "small phone" benchmark with a 5.4" screen is almost the same size in every dimension as your benchmark of the HTC 8x
But as mentioned, I don't consider the 8X to be small. It's a standard-sized phone in my eyes.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Phones had smaller screens when you needed the keypad to interact with the largest number of features. Phone screen sizes grew as the applications that could use screen space grew in demand. People are watching 1080p films on the train now. The people who want smaller screens are usually willing to deal with a larger one. People who want larger screens usually cant operate their use cases on a smaller screen. Larger…
None of this explains why it's just impossible to get small phones. You have people who want them unusably large and people who want them to fit in your hand. The solution in every other market is that products are manufactured to fit both sets of needs. You don't see pants coming in one size with the advice "wear a belt". What's going on?
I agree with the sentiment, but pants is a very funny example.
Every manufacturer seems to think people are either tall and fat or short and slim. I'm tall and my only alternative is literally to wear a belt.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think most major players have the same incentives and minor players don't have the economies of scale to make it work economically. Also the longer I used my iphone mini and the rest of the world moved to comically large phones the more it became apparent that nobody is thinking about small screen form factors in design and when they do its only around ad placement.
But, for example, what is the money flow from google/advertising in general to Motorola, that makes them not want to release a small screen model in their lineup of cheap phones?
Instagram, Tiktok, and Google have gotten users addicted to consuming content, and larger screens help with that.
We are helplessly addicted to digital cocaine, and so we demand large phones, and so motorola will not make money selling a small phone.
It's like the parent said: our addiction is the product, and so just like a chain-smoker will say "I want to quit" as they buy 5 packs a day, a modern smartphone user will say "I want a smaller screen and to look at ads less" as they hopelessly buy a 10 inch phablet and can't go 5 minutes without pulling it from their pocket to check tiktok.
It is not that the money from advertising flows, it is that the addicted users have already been ruined, and will not buy the devices they say they want.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Folding phones don't solve the problem of oversized phones, which is that they are awkward and cumbersome to use.
> they are awkward and cumbersome to use. For you. As someone with large hands, I appreciate that phones grew in size and I swapped to larger devices as soon as I could.
At 193 cm in height, I have large hands too. I currently use a Zenfone 10 and a Galaxy S10e before that, and I can grip them both just fine in one hand, but I can't also control them with that same hand without awkward contortions and a reliance on gravity.
The only phones I've had that I could comfortably use one-handed were my old BlackBerry Q10 (2013) and BlackBerry Classic (2014). The Q10 because it's short enough to hold between my thumb and ring finger such that I could use my index and middle fingers on the touch screen (slightly unorthodox but it worked really well), and the larger Classic because it has an optical thumbpad and excellent software support for it (it was so good I rarely used the touch screen at all). And both had physical keyboards.
Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
#190The Samsung S10e was probably peak Android. Small, high-end, SD card and 3.5mm jack. There are some decent small Android phones, if you're willing to buy non-mainstream brands. Take a look at: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallphones/
There's nothing close to the iPhone Mini anymore though