I want a handle on the back of my phone even less than I want a larger phone. I also refuse to use cases and any other contraption that adds further bulk.

I have had an excellent experience with the OhSnap grip. https://ohsnap.com/products/snap-grip It is significantly smaller than the popsocket and adds a strong magnet which can attach your phone to magnetic surfaces. It looks flimsy, but I've had it two years and even moved phones and it shows no signs of breaking.

Or they can make the phone human-sized and not resort to software hacks to resolve poor ergonomics.

That helps with reaching up, but my thumb also doesn't reach the far bottom corner either. I don't have a super-octave handspan but I don't have small hands either.

Thanks to their incredibly poor demos I believed until THIS MORNING that to do that maneuver, you had to start your downward swipe ON the little bar that's about 2px from the bottom of the screen (which works, but is nearly impossible with a case).

I'm glad other people have chimed in. It drives me insane that no one thought to make one-hand mode not change the width as well or be a total aspect change.

Just make it configurable yknow

Unihertz would be an amzing phone company if they updated their software literally ever.

Instead you are stuck with the OS, and security updates, that were out a year before you bought it. And you can't install LineageOS either.

> It failed because it wasn’t small enough.

I've never seen a preference like this, in real life. Usually the thing closest to what you want is the preferred option. You're suggesting there's a hump in the preference curve, pushing people away from their preference, buying a larger phone than the smallest, when they "want" a smaller one.

I have trouble believing this is true. Do you have any other example of this type of preference curve? I suppose the "uncanny valley" may be one, but that seems more understandable.

The iPhone Mini size isn't to bad, but I agree to some extent - I think perfect size phone for me would be about original iPhone SE size. It could have a 5" screen if you made it edge-to-edge (for ref the iPhone Mini has a 5.4" screen).

> The Mini didn’t fail because it was too small. It failed because it wasn’t small enough.

The size is fine. But why they gotta handicap cameras?

All I want is a mini-sized phone with max's camera. Is that so much to ask for?

At this point I'm strongly considering ditching the iPhone and going Watch + Fujifilm Camera. Maybe keep an old phone at home to manage the watch.

Yep! iPhone 13 Mini: 5.4". iPhone 4S: 3'5". More than 1.5x as large. It's HUGE. It's not really mini.

Give me 3" iPhone. That would be mini.

You can take calls on an Apple Watch. Is that more the size you're looking for?

Insightful! That's a great point: A period where a lot of people (especially the average-higher-income Apple demographic) were more likely to be sitting at home all day. Having a phone that is heavy and barely pocketable is nbd if you just have it sit on the coffee table or desk all day.

Apple sold more than 5 million iPhones 13 Mini in 2022. If the phone had come from any other manufacturer it would be considered a hit.

They should have called it the maxi, for 'maximum smallness'.

I wasn't sold on face ID until winter, and then the appeal become viscerally obvious.

The 17 does technically have a smaller screen than the Air, but only by 0.2". Not exactly a small phone. They don't even have a 6.1" phone anymore - smallest now is going to be 6.3".

I remember a coworker getting a Dell Streak Android phone in 2010 and it was enormous. Definitely felt more like a small tablet.

The GSM Arena review is mostly about the confusion of whether it should still be considered a phone at this size. Ultimately they decide it's just too damn big for a phone.[1].

It had a 5" screen.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/dell_streak-review-531.php

Take the Unihertz Jelly Star. No I get not paid for advertising. I just be happy to have it found.

Apparently there is not enough of a market of people like you to make it worth manufacturing, sadly.

Why?

OP is indicating that they felt the phone was too thick in a previous fashion era, that of tight pants. Loose is very very in

5 years too late

Tim had some slim pants.

When I looked for a new phone on gsmarena with a similar form factor as my old one, there were pretty much no options. So few even, my old phone appeared in the results. I too would be interested.

People underestimate what you can do with trillions of dollars at your disposal.

They could build a small town with all things you can imagine, cars, cinemas, hospitals, schools, whatever then get people to live there for months and use whatever new device prototypes they plan to launch a year later, and have an army of analysts even looking at their damn micro-expressions each time they pick up their phones in different ways and all of that might come down to like 50 million a year, which is like 0.05% of their revenue.

Apple is not anymore a startup where two/three guys make major decisions out of intuition (they ousted Ive because of that), again, this is a 2 trillion dollar company, they're not just vibing, lmao.