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
Aren’t the Pixel phones reasonably compact still?
Yea the a series is supposed to be the small, cheap and good line
The non-a but not the Pros are smaller, but “affordable flagship”
Pro series are the big premium flagships or Foldy phones (until el Goog changes their mind (again) at least)
This is not true at least not anymore. The pixel 8a is almost the same size as the pixel 8. If anything it’s a tiny bit bigger and heavier
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_8-12546.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_8a-12937.php
Also the pixel 7, 8 and 9 are all practically the same size which IMO is not small at all. They are all huge with screens over 6in in size.
They also all weight in the 190g ballpark which in my opinion is too heavy as well.
the A series is smallish, the last small android phone was probably the Asus Zenfone 10, then Asus axed that line and merged the Zenfone line and ROG phone line and followed the ROG phones size. A phones however aren’t flagship so theyd fail the check.
The phone on the left is a pixel 7 pro.
So, yes, by modern standards.
But no, as you can see by the comparison to the phone next to it.
And that’s kind of the point I’m making.
So, yes, by modern standards
My wife’s P7 and my P8P are both roughly the same dimensions as an old landline handset would be (my phone is maybe half an inch thicker than the landline at my work)
Cell phones of the 00’s were small by phone standards, modern phones are closer to old landline handset sizes than 00’s cells, so I’d say the 00’s cells are the ones off the standard
I have the same problem and my latest was an asus zenfone after a ton of research. Its been pretty solid actually.
Zenfone was heavily promoted as a “small” phone but its larger than the base galaxy, despite having a smaller display
Those were the days
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
consumers in general wants bigger phone, market follow along
sadly, small phone is a niche now
I miss phones that experimented.
I had the Motorola backflip (that was a fun one) and had one of the first phones with a fingerprint sensor that everyone said was a gimmick, had the one with the “indestructible screen” (Motorola Z2 force iirc) that I had a lot of fun throwing around till I broke it (But not the screen! I’ll give them that lmao), had every Nexus device until the bitter end (I cursed Google for a long time when they decided Pixels was the way forward, I didn’t pick up a pixel again until the Pixel Fold 0G) and so so many others over the years.
Until one day they just stopped being cool for years, hell the Foldy phone has been the coolest innovation they’ve put out in years and we’re already back to nothing but iterations again
You would really enjoy the When Phones Were Fun series on YouTube if you haven’t seen them
