The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone

AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 351 points – The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone
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Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.

TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren't getting small phones and why it's probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.

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I don’t get what the obsession with big phones is. Is it that most people really want big phones or that companies can charge more for them?

It's not that people want big phones, it's that people like big screens.

Two main reasons I think:

  • it’s easier to make a big phone as there’s more space for all the components
  • the average consumer doesn’t use computers as much anymore, so people start using their phone for all kinds of things where they benefit from the bigger screen
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People generally just want the biggest screen they can hold in their hands comfortably.

For most people that seems to have settled into the 6.5-6.7" range, depending on aspect ratio and bezels.

I'm old and my eyesight requires them now. Lol

Bigger screens which is the whole appeal with smartphones.

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