I know I have small hands but c’mon. Flagship phones these days are strait up small tablets, not even what we’d have called on phablets 15 years ago.
I know it’s what people buy, but I’m still sad that if I want a phone that small then I have to deal with camera and display a couple gens old
I’ve recently set up my launcher that way that I can access all of my apps without the need of constantly moving my hand up and down. This shit is ridiculous.
I still have my Pixel 6 Pro and, whatever its dimensions, they’re a pretty good fit in my hand. I definitely value the bigger screen as I get older and my vision gets wonkier.
The phone on the left is a pixel 7 pro, so it’s a “small” flagship.
Compared to something like Galaxy s25 ultra or pixel 9 pro xl, the phone on the right is downright miniscule
I had it until recently. It was always a bit too big for me. Now I have the Pixel 9 Pro (not XL) and I think it’s perfect!
I got the Pixel 9P for this reason. It’s actually notably smaller than the previous models.
Oh is it?? I loved my pixel 3 and when it was time for an upgrade the pixel 7 was the flagship and was way too big. I switched over to a Samsung s21 5g and it’s been a decent size, but I’m at a loss for what to do when this one inevitably dies on me. Glad to hear the newer pixels are potentially one-handable for my tiny hands.
I love my 9 pro! The size is perfect, and i didn’t have to sacrifice on camera this time.
Yea you have a point but also the bulge on my pants has never looked bigger
I have big hands, so I had the opposite problem. To this day my favorite was the galaxy note 4 because he was a beefy boy ❤️
Same! I really liked the Note 5 cause I worked for Sprint and got it for free at release. Until the whole exploding batteries thing…
I have large hands and I don’t like having to make the compromise of features or size. I prefer phones around 5in or a smidge under. But to have a modern camera I have an almost 7in phone. It’s really frustrating.
Those were the days
I literally gasped. iPAQ510, my beloved
I would vomit if I had to look at the Windows logo every time I pulled out my phone. Google is not perfect and they’ve made mistakes with Android, but at least it’s Open Source. Microsoft has a much worse record of opposing Open Source initiatives…
This was nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft was annoying but fairly benign at the time. This phone with Windows Mobile 6 was released alongside the first release of android and the first iPhone
You’re right, they haven’t been this overt since the 2000’s. But their flagship OS is still closed-source and forces ads and unpopular privacy violating features like Recall to this day…
Windows phone had a lot of potential
Unihertz specializes in small phones. They aren’t flagship spec but they are midrange at sensible prices. They also have keyboard phones and even a phone with a built in DMR radio for Amateur and GMRS use.
Not a plug, I don’t even own one I just love that they are daring to be different.
Chinese company and the phones use Mediatek chips, so no custom ROM support last I checked. Otherwise I would have been all over it.
What, Flagship? There’s no small phones anymore.
iPhone SE is small. I have been buying them when coming out, they have been fantastic. If you want android, not sure what’s out there.
Same here. The Google Pixel, but I think they recently eliminated the small version.
Man I loved the 2016 one. Got the 2020 one when that broke and that was already too big for me. I have chronic tendonitis, stretching like that is painful.
The next one will likely be big. They also discontinued the Mini which was an awesome phone.
Yea unfortunately it could go up in size. We will see shortly
The 3rd gen SE is 4.7 inches, the new one is rumored to be 6.06 and shaped like iPhone 14. MacRumors often gets these things right, too.
That’s too bad. The old se series was great
Yeah. I’d settle for a 17 mini, but I doubt we’re getting one of those either, given that there was no 14, 15 or 16 mini :/
https://lemmy.world/c/compactphones - the activity here reflects this x_x
phablets
Is what Pharrell calls his daily meds
We’re the kind of people that are pushing our phones to end of support, it’s not a market that moves product and thus not one the big companies listen to.
I of course don’t miss small flagship phones because my S10e is still perfectly serviceable.
My next phone will be e-ink at any size
s9+ here still. I intend to use this phone until it costs more to repair than to get a new one.
S10e
They can pry my 3.5 mm jack from my cold dead hands. Already got the battery replaced once.
I’m gonna miss that swipe pad on the power button when it finally gives up the ghost.
Also still on a S10e, havent found a newer phone that isn’t a downgrade in some aspects.
The box for HTC HD2 had
<---- BIG ---->as dimensions of the phone. It had a 4.3" screen that actually was huge at the time (2009), but it’s hilarious from today’s perspective.
When phones were still fun
Well, it may only have had a 4 inch screen, but it also had huge bezels. It’s less tall than modern flagships, but almost the same width, making it similar for one handed use.
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/HTC-HD2,Google-Pixel-9-Pro/phones/3887,12285
Notice that the dimensions in the picture are marked only for the screen proper, not including bezels.
16:9 + huge bezels. A Huawei Mate 8 (6.0") which would be tiny today is still more of a brick than a S25 Ultra with 6.8".
Notice that the dimensions in the picture are marked only for the screen proper, not including bezels.
I have big hands and long fingers. I’m still waiting for phones to get big enough for me lol
Oh, I feel you. I have been eyeballing iPad Mini as a phone, but can’t make myself buy an Apple product.
Same for me with the Samsung Note. It’s just a great size but can’t bring myself to use it and screw apple and their technology design for idiots.
…its 2035 and the ending of jeans as we know them. Today the birth of the unipocket marks the start of another page in crotch covering technology. We’ll no longer be bound by the primitive tubular jeans of old. Jeans with two small front pockets that wouldn’t cover anyone’s privates in the case, the oh so common zipper failure. No, no ziper, no flimsy buttons either. Those have always been weakness. The future is brighter than we could have ever imagined. That’s right! Front and rear screens covering every crotch on the planets. And a screen belt to hold it all together. And for the perpetualization of Victoria’s Secret, the new double circular scraw… A scraw covering every pair of tits on the planet! Imagine full crotch ads! Imagine all the profit!
We’ll all start wearing kilts with enormous sporrans
Sir! Please calm your sporrans! Or are you happy to see me? Wait hold on, we have a family guy short, it’s the classic chicken fight scene.
It was already difficult enough to undo bra hooks, but now you can watch 6 unskipable ads instead and it’ll release itself automatically. Much profit indeed.
I’m still on my 2016 iPhone SE. It’s slow and buggy but for my purposes it’s great and the screen is only 10cm (4in).
I still have mine as a secondary work phone. Love the size and format of it in general, although I think I’d still prefer a phone slightly bigger (~10%) and with a higher resolution (1080p?) display, mainly for media consumption.
Outside of that, I second the slow and buggy comment (although in my experience this has been mostly with Microsoft Teams, which is a buggy mess regardless)
