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I have big hands and I still like 5" phones. Why does nobody seem to offer them at a good price point?

I may need to get an Unihertz Atom L.

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Because those phones don’t sell. People that want small phones are generally a small group of tech enthusiasts, and those are not nearly enough to drive companies to design smaller phones

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Capitalism: Where you have the freedom to choose to buy whatever you want, so long as it is what everyone else is buying, too.

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My sister is definitely not a tech enthusiast and she still wanted a new sub-$400 phone she could use with one hand (even if it compromised thinness) and that had a 3.5mm jack and a good camera. After an extensive search, I needed to fail her one-hand requirement.

I’ll wait for the Unihertz Atom L to come to the second-hand market but I’m afraid its users will be too happy with it to pass it on.

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The mini’s only ever accounted for single digit sales percentages, so they never made any sense to sell once the terrible sales were realized.

And then there was the generally mediocre user experience. It just puts a bad image on iPhone as a whole so apple is quick to drop it. I’m surprised they released a 13 mini, but there must have been some sort of break even they wanted to achieve.

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