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Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by infinityplus1 »

eertami wrote: post #111
erohead wrote: post #2

I’m a long-time small phone Android user. But after the Pixel 5, I have not been able to find a suitable small Android replacement. The Pixel 6 is gigantic, and the Pixel 7 looks like it is also destined to be huge. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve resorted to using an iPhone Mini, biding my time and hoping desperately that some Android OEM would step up. But it’s increasingly clear that a small premium phone is not on t…

Similar user, and I have no idea if there will be anything left to buy after the Pixel 4a. I expect the 4a will be good enough for another 3 years at-least, if there are no accidents. Hopefully by then there is something available which continues the form factor. 4a has been the perfect successor to the Nexus 4, it's a little taller but other than that has practically the same footprint. With the 6a moving in a diffe…

Just buy another Pixel 4A. There must be a brand new model still available with some retailer.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by nsonha »

Markoff wrote: post #879
starwind wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use an S10e. Love it. It's not small-small but def small by todays standards. Probably switching to an iPhone here soon

Why? S22 has almost same dimensions. List of smaller Android phones with decent specs: Pixel 5 - 144.7 x 70.4 x 8 mm Samsung S22 - 146 x 70.6 x 7.6 mm Zenfone 8 - 148 x 68.5 x 8.9 mm (could be higher thanks to narrower body) Xiaomi 12X - 152.7 x 69.9 x 8.2 mm Samsung S21 - 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9 mm

I've gotten the s10e just last month because it's the top phone that can still run linux on dex (which is a disappointment, but that's a topic for another day), and doesn't have those stupid Samsung edge displays (s10+ 12GB RAM edition).

I'm not sure those other phones are any better in terms of running linux (termux) and those non-samsung ones don't even have dex so I don't even know what the high specs are for.

S22 should be good once it's no longer the latest phone and you can grab at a discount, and maybe Android 13 with KVM is out by then.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by tech2 »

The Sony Xperia Z5 Compact was my previous phone that I'd had from 2015 until mid last year. It was close to perfect. Waterproof, headphone socket, SD slot. If a new version of that were released with less of a screen border than the original I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Thickness could stay the same too, I'd like the additional runtime rather than everything needing to be wafer-thin.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by jhugo »

hoseja wrote: post #853
phinnaeus wrote: post #814

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I agree that the requirements should be pared down to the absolute least common denominator, but disagree that the headphone jack belongs in that category. You (and GP) surely have to recognize that at this point requiring a headphone jack is also a niche request.

That's just fiction phone manufacturers want to make true by repetition.

Phone are available with and without headphone jacks. The ones without sell better. The ship has sailed, move on.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by raynr »

After years of lurking, I wrote a post over on /r/android on this... in 2019. By then the small phone minority had been loud and vocal for some years already.

Based on the responses and trends observed since then, I don't think this is ever going to happen.

Tech savvy users for tech savvy products are gone. It is now a consumerism and popularity driven market, small phones simply don't have the bling factor to sell.

Even if this was not the case, logically, if you have only one mobile computing device, you would be better of getting a big one so you that you can do more with it. Read more e-mail, watch more content, play more games, take better pictures (bigger phones tend to have more space for more options).

And for us die hard small phone folks, well, all of us need a phone, right? And since all of our phones stop getting updates after a few years (iPhone notwithstanding), we will complain loudly about the lack of small phones... and then buy a big phone anyway.

The best we can hope for is for manufacturers to make a loss leading mini line. Like Sony, Samsung, and Google used to do.

Now that they do not, I own an iPhone 13 mini, and I hope to use it with battery replacements for at least 4 years.

I put my money where my mouth is for the longest time. My phone history: iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, Sony Z1 compact, Sony Z3 Compact, Sony Z5 Compact, Sony XZ1 Compact (good golly gosh what a fantastic phone that was), Pixel 3, iPhone 13 Mini. But our market is too small.

RIP small phones.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by mixxit »

erohead wrote: post #2

I’m a long-time small phone Android user. But after the Pixel 5, I have not been able to find a suitable small Android replacement. The Pixel 6 is gigantic, and the Pixel 7 looks like it is also destined to be huge. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve resorted to using an iPhone Mini, biding my time and hoping desperately that some Android OEM would step up. But it’s increasingly clear that a small premium phone is not on t…

Pixel 7 dimensions: 155.6 x 73.1 x 8.7mm

Pixel 7 Pro dimensions: 163 x 76.6 x 8.7mm

Pixel 6 dimensions: 158.6 x 74.8 x 8.9 mm

Pixel 6 Pro dimensions: 163.9 x 75.9 x 8.9 mm

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by fennecfoxy »

raynr wrote: post #885

After years of lurking, I wrote a post over on /r/android on this... in 2019. By then the small phone minority had been loud and vocal for some years already. Based on the responses and trends observed since then, I don't think this is ever going to happen. Tech savvy users for tech savvy products are gone. It is now a consumerism and popularity driven market, small phones simply don't have the bling factor to sell.…

I would so buy a modernised Xperia Mini Pro, it was such an amazing phone/format. Recent camera/screen etc and maybe a bit thinner and it'd be so perfect.

Re: I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

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Post by lrem »

taneliv wrote: post #861
lrem wrote: post #849

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I've been burnt by Sony. Back in the first generation of the compact flagship. A great phone in all aspects... Until it was dropped. A tiny crack in the corner of the screen, you wouldn't notice without looking for it. Unfortunately engineering choices by Sony folk meant that any crack anywhere disabled the digitizer (i.e. the touchscreen loses the touch part). Such a bummer.

Countering your anecdote with mine. I have an Xperia 10 II (or something like that, the slimmest Android device I could find back in early 2021). The back cover is cracked all over, to the point I sometimes get cuts on my fingers. Two of the corners have dents. The back camera that takes the actual photo is several degrees off (like 10 or 15°) from whatever is used for the preview. Works perfectly in all the other wa…

Is there a crack on the touchscreen itself though?
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