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This is the best summary I could come up with:


But for gadget enthusiasts like me, Google had other plans: it’s arbitrarily pushing buyers to the ginormous Pixel 8 Pro instead, bragging about how its larger handset can handle niftier features even though both phones have the same cameras and chips.

Plus, Samsung doesn’t actually let you use it like a small phone by default — you’ve gotta jump through hoops to use apps on the outer screen.

It’s called Unihertz, and its Jelly line is tiny and has nifty features like a BlackBerry keyboard or programmable buttons and extra LEDs.

The project hasn’t had a meaningful update in five months, and team leader Benjamin Bryant admits he had to pause to look for consulting work on the side.

“Samsung Display US is willing to champion us; the challenge will be convincing the Korean HQ that we are a viable enough project for them to invest time and resources into,” Bryant tells me.

Bryant admits that, in general, the small phone outlook is “bleak” and that some of his prospective customers “will be forced to upgrade in the coming year.”


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4 points

Haven’t thought of small phones in a while, unless you look into dumb phones, like Nokia 3310 reboot.

Great little phone, but does not have smart features that smart phones have.

Nice to see the sizes being compared, I was not expecting it, but wow have phone become huge.

I wonder if Pine64 or similar would create a small phone, they have launched phones before…

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2 points

The PPP is still too far from being useful for me to think they could deliver a uzbl small phone

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139 points

They will have to pry my iPhone 13 mini from my cold dead hands! Small phone gang unite! ✊

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69 points

I want a smaller smartphone but not an iPhone. It’s sad that Apple is the only manufacturer still producing reasonable sized phones. Small phone gang unite and push for other manufacturers to follow Apple on this one!

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7 points

Yea i wanted iPhone mini as well but it’s hard for me to miss abilities such as using OG Firefox (not some stupid skinned safari) with ublock origin and NewPipe.

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58 points

Unfortunately even Apple has announced they are discontinuing their smaller phone, citing poor sales, so it seems the small phone gang is too small to have any market power.

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1 point

They say that all the time because it disposes of the issue without them needing to provide any evidence.

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I don’t believe the small phone gang is small, we just have one option: a pretty expensive iPhone mini.

I want a small phone but not an iPhone, I have no option therefore manufactures assume I want a humongous phone. That’s flawed logic.

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5 points

They haven’t made it in two years now. They stopped with the 13.

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37 points

Small people want small phones. Small people have small hands. Small hands can’t carry very much money.

It’s simple economics.

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2 points

There is the samsung galaxy base line up of the ‘S series’.

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The base galaxy s is the same size as a base iPhone. 6.1 inch screen.

There’s nothing mini about it in the least. The iPhone mini had a 5.4 inch screen.

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2 points

Asus makes small phones (for now).

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5 points

Damn, Steve Jobs got his posthumous hooks in ya

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9 points

Fellow 13 mini user here, and I’ve never loved a phone more.

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9 points

I still have an SE 2020 and now wondering if I can get a Mini. I had a 6+ and got rid of it because it made my hand cramp. I hate big phones.

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8 points

The 13 mini made me switch to apple after years of android and even Ubuntu phone.

The form factor is the only reason I buy a new phone so let’s hope there’s still be a market for people like us.

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iphone 13 is gaint! I don’t I’m on the same page as you lol

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4 points

They won’t. It’ll break and you won’t be able to repair it before then.

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28 points

I believe the (old but still decent) best small Android is the Samsung s10e

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14 points

That’s still my current phone. Newer phones just look so absolutely massive.

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12 points

Same, holding on for dear life with my S10E. It’s the best form factor, great power button finger print reader, dual SIM, I mean, what’s not to love. (battery is kind of meh, but I’ve added a halo ring and a magnetic induction battery).

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What’s the point of a small phone if you’re going to stick a big battery to it?

My phone is big, but I don’t need an external battery. I’m curious to see the size and weight comparison between my phone with a big built in battery, and your phone + battery combo.

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5 points

Pixel 5 and Zenphone come to mind, too.

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1 point

Zenfone and pixel 5 are same size as galaxy S22/S23

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9 points

Using this right now. If they revived the galaxy mini line (~4in screen) I’d absolutely buy it.

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12 points

Except for the Bixby button, I mostly like my s10e. I have large hands, but still wish it was slightly shorter.

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Have you looked into remapping the button? I use Button Remapper and I have it configured to open Google maps and Spotify

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8 points

I’m actually using a Titan Pocket currently. Works well enough for me. The security updates are lagging behind that’s getting me considering switching back, but I’m otherwise cautious how I use it.

It’s a nice feeling device, and makes me wish they’d make more BlackBerry style phones with bigger displays and Android capability.

People see you whip the titan out and think “oh he’s doing that rollback technology thing”, then you use Android Pay and they really flip out lol.

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I hope more manufacturers would adopt the Blackberry style of phones. Titan Pocket has proved that you can have Android running decently on such a device. So why not bring back QWERTY keyboards?

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Same experience when i was using the Jelly 2, people loved it when i pulled it out to pay with NFC.

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