Submitted 1 year ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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I know I have small hands but c’mon. Flagship phones these days are strait up small tablets, not even what we’d have called on phablets 15 years ago.
I know it’s what people buy, but I’m still sad that if I want a phone that small then I have to deal with camera and display a couple gens old
hmm, 7786?
Unihertz specializes in small phones. They aren’t flagship spec but they are midrange at sensible prices. They also have keyboard phones and even a phone with a built in DMR radio for Amateur and GMRS use.
Not a plug, I don’t even own one I just love that they are daring to be different.
Chinese company and the phones use Mediatek chips, so no custom ROM support last I checked. Otherwise I would have been all over it.
You have some duo lingo to finish up buddy
It’s true. Idk why people are down voting you
Dunno either it was just a joke, we all have duo to do!
Why would you buy a flagship phone? It sounds like you want not that. And not that exists.
Because, like I said in the post, flagship phones have the best cameras, and I take a lot of pictures
Image sensor and optics quality drop off pretty quickly once you leave flagship territory.
Flagship means the best of the best, of course it’s gonna be large and fancy lmfao.
There’s plenty of phones that fit your niece, but it’s like expecting a cigar boat to be the flagship of the navy dude lol.
Best doesn’t have to mean biggest.
I want all the fanciest best shit, and I want it to actually fit in my hand
So you don’t want a flagship, you want a small compact phone with all the fixings. That would no longer be the flagship anymore by using established conventions.
Flagship has specific meanings and you’re ignoring them to bitch and moan.
This makes no sense. Large doesn’t mean fancy. Back in the day, making the phone smaller was fancy.
The minimal company’s flagship phone is a minimal phone. It’s their signature phone. The flagship was the ship that had the ranking officer/admiral on it, representing the fleet. Apple, google etc all decided their flagship phone would be huge.
OP wants more flagship phone, that is the type of phone the company markets as its main phone, to be smaller. It has little to do with how powerful it is (most of the phones are batteries for the screen).
This makes no sense. Large doesn’t mean fancy. Back in the day, making the phone smaller was fancy.
Which has nothing to do with the the historical term “flagship”.
The minimal company’s flagship phone is a minimal phone. It’s their signature phone. The flagship was the ship that had the ranking officer/admiral on it, representing the fleet. Apple, google etc all decided their flagship phone would be huge.
If it’s not the fanciest and most expensive, then by definition and original convention, it’s no longer a flagship phone.
Terms have specific uses, let’s not dilute them to make ourselves feel better. Language IS fluid, but. It when people are obstinate to already preestablished conventions… a small phone will never by definition every be considered a flagship, but bloviate of you want.
I miss phones that experimented.
I had the Motorola backflip (that was a fun one) and had one of the first phones with a fingerprint sensor that everyone said was a gimmick, had the one with the “indestructible screen” (Motorola Z2 force iirc) that I had a lot of fun throwing around till I broke it (But not the screen! I’ll give them that lmao), had every Nexus device until the bitter end (I cursed Google for a long time when they decided Pixels was the way forward, I didn’t pick up a pixel again until the Pixel Fold 0G) and so so many others over the years.
Until one day they just stopped being cool for years, hell the Foldy phone has been the coolest innovation they’ve put out in years and we’re already back to nothing but iterations again
You would really enjoy the When Phones Were Fun series on YouTube if you haven’t seen them
consumers in general wants bigger phone, market follow along
sadly, small phone is a niche now
There’s more to it than that. Big phones are more marketable and have better profit margins. It’s not all consumer preference. Kinda similar to cars actually
I would vomit if I had to look at the Windows logo every time I pulled out my phone. Google is not perfect and they’ve made mistakes with Android, but at least it’s Open Source. Microsoft has a much worse record of opposing Open Source initiatives…
Windows phone had a lot of potential
This was nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft was annoying but fairly benign at the time. This phone with Windows Mobile 6 was released alongside the first release of android and the first iPhone
I literally gasped. iPAQ510, my beloved
I have the same problem and my latest was an asus zenfone after a ton of research. Its been pretty solid actually.
Zenfone was heavily promoted as a “small” phone but its larger than the base galaxy, despite having a smaller display
I do wish it was slightly shorter. They just don’t make small enough phones anymore for my taste.
Aren’t the Pixel phones reasonably compact still?
The phone on the left is a pixel 7 pro.
So, yes, by modern standards.
But no, as you can see by the comparison to the phone next to it.
And that’s kind of the point I’m making.
So, yes, by modern standards
My wife’s P7 and my P8P are both roughly the same dimensions as an old landline handset would be (my phone is maybe half an inch thicker than the landline at my work)
Cell phones of the 00’s were small by phone standards, modern phones are closer to old landline handset sizes than 00’s cells, so I’d say the 00’s cells are the ones off the standard
Still to damn big
the A series is smallish, the last small android phone was probably the Asus Zenfone 10, then Asus axed that line and merged the Zenfone line and ROG phone line and followed the ROG phones size. A phones however aren’t flagship so theyd fail the check.
Here I am on my zenphone 10 wishing it was a little smaller
6a is pretty good and will be supported for a bit. Wish they were more repairable though…
Yea the a series is supposed to be the small, cheap and good line
The non-a but not the Pros are smaller, but “affordable flagship”
Pro series are the big premium flagships or Foldy phones (until el Goog changes their mind (again) at least)
This is not true at least not anymore. The pixel 8a is almost the same size as the pixel 8. If anything it’s a tiny bit bigger and heavier
I’d probably have a Pixel if I didn’t have a habit of dropping my phone off the top of a ladder.
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not that it’s everyday practical, but you can definitely get small phones. There are definitely lesser known names out there that make phones in all sizes.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I know they exist, but I specifically mentioned flagship phones because they have the best cameras and screens, and I take a lot of pictures
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And there’s still room for a headphone jack.
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’sa silly little thing, but manages to get like 5 days standby or 2-3 days light use.