I’m using a Sharp Aquos Wish from 2022, because it’s 5.8 inches tall. It just barely fits in my pocket, but honestly is a bit uncomfortable. I wish I had a phone about 5.5 inches tall. Ideally with the latest android OS, a good battery, and wireless charging.
NOTHING like that exists! The closest is maybe the Unihertz Jelly Max, which is Android 14 instead of 15, and doesn’t support wireless charging. It’s also made in China, and comes preinstalled with spyware.
I could use GrapheneOS if I got a Google Pixel, but Google doesn’t have a line of small phones. They even developed foldable phones so they could make a smaller foldable phone if they wanted, but instead they created the abomination that is the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which is a gigantic 6 inch phone when folded, and unfolds into a tablet-sized device. For the love of god, WHY!???
The whole point of foldables was to make phones smaller, not make them twice as big! Who was responsible for this?
I don’t know what to do. At this point I think I may never upgrade my phone. I’ll be using my Sharp Aquos Wish 10 years from now, and then abandon phones entirely when the network stops servicing Android 11.
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I upvoted this on my Pixel 9 Pro Fold while unfolded.
Oh shit… I’m part of the problem! I just wanted the new shiny thing!
The truth is people who want small phones also want them for the price of a clamshell feature phone with no 4G support. I’ve heard these complaints many times from older acquaintances, they want their old Nokia that can also run Viber and do videocalls, and they are not paying iPhone SE price, so there’s practically no market for small but high-spec phones, outside of luxury brands where you are buying an ancient chip with a leather back cover.
Porn, porn made phones bigger
I’ve spent hours using the phone finder at gsmarena and not being happy with the less than 20 results I get.
Closest is maybe the Samsung S25 but it’s still too big. Also I don’t want to drop $500 on a phone. Anything over $200 is too much.
This is just miserable.
Asus zenfone 10 is 2 years old but the last compact phone with premium specs, and really good looking. Then Asus abandoned this product as the zenfone 11 ultra is a massive ugly phone. You may have a look at Sony’s lineup too although their long ass ratio is not for everyone
Wanting it for under 200 is part of why they don’t make them…
Yeah, I wish it wasn’t true. I miss my smaller phone. The one I have now is too big to be comfortable. Unless there’s significant money in it, manufacturers can’t justify the expense of making a smaller phone.
That said, it’s a chicken-and-egg problem. A lot of people want a smaller phone. However, they can’t even buy one. And the manufacturers can’t tell that people want a smaller one because it’s not possible to buy one. It might remain that way until one manufacturer takes a leap, makes a small phone, and it goes well.
Yeah… Phone manufacturers have decided that we all want giant phones. How dare you use your free will to desire otherwise?
It’s what the public wants. If small phones would sell better, they would make them.
Similar to vehicles, smaller phones probably would sell just fine.
The issue would be that not many people would buy a phone 2/3 the size unless it was also 2/3 the price. Even if the manufacturing of such a device was 2/3 the cost (it wouldn’t be), the bottom line for the manufacturer would be same number of devices sold, but 1/3 less money.
Companies don’t do less money.
Except, small vehicles are actually on the market, and there is a good selection to choose from.
Something else is going on with phones. There are many models in the mid and low range, but extremely few small models.
Not just manufacturers, my friend. People use their phones for media, which is always better on a bigger screen.
First and foremost: nobody buys them. Manufacturers would build smaller versions of their flagships, but many would be severely limited or use lower-spec parts compared to said flagships. Or, the models that were high-spec like their larger siblings would cost almost as much, and so the average person will just get the bigger one because to most people, bigger = better.
It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.
Also - nobody has heard of Sharp Aquos phones. I’ve got one of their TVs (from 2007 lol), but even I didn’t know they made phones until this post.
It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.
I mean, a bigger screen is objectively better for consuming content, plus the speakers are often more powerful. As a person with bigger hands I much prefer larger phones. I have the S21 Ultra and I really like the size.
They also typically have a larger battery and are able to fit in more features (like the S pen which I love, but they had to remove in this generation)
I wouldn’t say nobody, they are familiar to people living in Japan or SEA. If you’ve visited one of the countries they are sold in, you might have come across them (I saw them in a Tokyo department store).
I agree.
My current samsung s10e phone (comparatively small by today’s standards) is too big. My last phone was actually a decent size, but had some hardware issues which is why I upgraded. It was a sony xperia xz1 compact. Before that I had a moto g, and before that a Motorola razr. All better sizes than my current model.
My next phone will likely either be a linux phone, or if those are still not ready then I may forgo convention/convenience and go for some kind of downgraded phone or no phone if I could swing it somehow…
and comes preinstalled with spyware.
What is the spyware?
for fucks sake. this isn’t a fucking search engine.
educate yourself.
How did Google make the Pixel 8a larger than the Pixel 8? The whole reason of the “a” series is for it to be smaller! Did Google outsource the design of the 8a to Somalia, or is this just how incompetent their engineering team is?
Size was never the point of the Pixel A-series. The point was “less features for less money”. Sometimes it happened to come in a smaller device.
No need for racism here…
I swear to god most people are NPC’s and they spawn into reality with a phone in their hand. These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?
No. They have to not be real. I am surrounded by millions of NPC’s. There can’t be that many people sticking their phones up their butts.
You can downvote me, NPC’s. But I know what you are. You don’t exist in reality when I can’t see you. Like Agent Smith computer programs, you only exist in cyberspace when I’m not immediately nearby.
These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?
Let’s play “where’s the Pixel 9 Pro XL in a case with a magsafe wallet attached”:
There’s something hard to the left. It must be the phone sticking out the front
Is that a Pixel 9 Pro XL in a case with a magsafe wallet attached, or are you just happy to see me?
¿Por qué no los dos?
You can see the corner of it poking out of my pocket if you zoom in
Milwaukee fastback?
Yeah, the one with a bit driver on the back
Wear cargo pants or a jacket, solipsist.
I have a 6.8" Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ (overdue for an update), and it comfortably fits in my pants’ pockets. I don’t know what kind of tight pants or minuscule size you wear, but for most of us it’s a non-issue.
Yeah, unless you have women’s pockets I’ve never had an issue with them not fitting in my pants.
I’ve noticed that some pants I’ve tried (as a guy) didn’t have pockets comfortably sized for a modern smartphone. So I didn’t buy any of those.
