As a woman: I’d love to use bigger phones - as soon as they give me pockets I can fit them into.
Comment on So long, small phones
mojo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
People have been saying this for the last 5 years and will continue saying this for the next 5 years. They make less smaller phones cuz people don’t buy them
amelia@feddit.de 11 months ago
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I feel like hopefully with a potential paradigm shift, maybe one SIM card and number shared between several devices, one large phone or tablet for work or movies and a smaller feature phone for on demand urgent communications, we’ll hopefully see the market for OEMs open up a bit wider and allow for further competition/collaboration across the whole portable electronics sector
locuester@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Absolutely untrue. It’s a heat dissipation issue. iPhone minis had so many issues with heat they can’t make em anymore.
Apple wants you to think that bigger phones are better only because they can’t make them smaller.
verysoft@kbin.social 11 months ago
That will be a side effect of them locking abitrary features behind the bigger and thus more expensive models, if there was feature parity smaller phones would probably still be the norm.
nexusband@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I only got the Pixel 6 Pro because of the zoom lense…i would not have chosen it otherwise. It’s too big…
6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Me for the pixel 8 pro. I’d rather the regular pixel 8 but if I’m going to keep this thing for 7 years (which I will; typing from a pixel 2) then I want it to be as feature rich as possible. Not looking forward to how big it’s going to be when it finally gets delivered
nexusband@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good lucky keeping it for so long… I’m having lots of little issues with my 6 Pro…
hiddengoat@kbin.social 11 months ago
If you can figure out a way to cram all of the shit in a 15 Pro Max into a form factor the size of an iPhone 4 not only will Apple suck your dick in the form of a well-earned half million dollar salary but you'll likely get a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in quantum computing and also making atoms smaller.
verysoft@kbin.social 11 months ago
Is this bait?
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 11 months ago
No, I agree with his point. Features do take space. Maybe we can make space for a headphone jack (🙄), but consumers demand more cameras, with a larger sensor, faster and more power hungry processors, bigger batteries. With any space limitation (even the Pro Max comes with a space limitation because it can’t become an iPad…) there are feature tradeoffs, and obviously a smaller phone will fit fewer cameras, less cooling, a smaller battery, etc.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Are you that dense?
It's a very realistic example of what you would have to do to cram all of the shit from a large phone into a small phone. The features that are cut aren't fucking "arbitrary" unless you want to classify every feature difference as "abitrary" thereby making your definition of arbitrary meaningless.
ayyndrew@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There are some features that just can’t be equal between a bigger phone and a smaller one (or would require gimping the bigger phone like a bigger screen (obviously), bigger battery and more size for larger camera sensors