I literally laid them on top of each other and the 6 was marginally larger.

Betrays the point anyway: the ideal size was the 5 and it was nowhere near that, even by your official numbers (which I would guess are excluding the rounded edges maybe? - regardless, not the point)

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Jtsummers 3 days ago | parent [-]

> I literally laid them on top of each other and the 6 was marginally larger.

So you did that and still wrote that the minis were larger? Or you did that after I pointed out that the minis were smaller?

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		Apologies, what I meant was "larger than an iPhone 5/5s"; I provided pictures in a sibling comment thread to show what I mean, there's about 20% of a difference between the iPhone 5 and 6, and that size difference is very similar for the mini. If people wanted to buy a phone that was the size of the 6, they would have purchased the SE from 2020, which was that roughly that size.
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