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It's actually a bit more subtle than consumers not buying them.
When LTE came out, it was inefficient and used lower frequencies than cell phones used before. So they needed big phones that they could stick big batteries and antennas in.
Smaller phones existed, but often lacked features of big phones, and battery life was terrible due to the aforementioned power consumption problem. Likewise, reception suffered.
Now, the power problem has been solved and LTE uses less power than CDMA techs did. Antenna and radio design has improved to mitigate reception issues so smaller antennae don't hurt as much as they once did. However, now phones have giant camera modules in them and antennae for a plethora of services and features they think people want like UWB, NFC, wireless charging. (They all have their place, just stating this because they aren't "essential".)
People stopped buying small phones because they were "terrible" by comparison. Then manufacturers claimed people didn't want small phones, so they stopped making them. Now we are stuck because all the junk they throw in phones need all that space.
Tl;dr: the wireless industry killed small phones and blamed consumers.
I have not forgotten. And this is not so much swimming upstream but rather, as Captain America said, it's more like planting yourself like a tree and say "no, you move".
More so they upsold people to the bigger models. If they had exactly the same specifications other than size, I bet a much larger set of people buy the smaller one. The phone in this post does look a bit too small though.
I mean other than screen size and battery size, they could have the same specs. It was a theoretical though, people like buying features they don't need or just like to have the best they can, even if that means having a larger phone. I think anything past ~6 inch screens is just way too large, but some people enjoy their phablets, so I wouldn't like to see that option disappear for them either.
Yeah, this seems like a targeted ad written by some llm. I have a larger phone and still cannot stand the size of the "keyboard" on it.. Can only imagine how fun it would be typing on that screen, even if the keyboard was fullscreen.
Oh, damn, so I write like AI, should I take that as compliment or criticism?
I am just a dude with small hands that did not know this phone existed until now. And I fell in love. That's it.
I guess a compliment. Sorry, this last year or so has made me very skeptical of anything I see online that seems a little spontaneous. So many companies trying to act like bros and just find something amazing they have to tell us about. Unfortunately it's clouding up the posts where people actually do find something amazing. I like this, and would actually look into it if it had better comments on the U.S. coverage or bands. Still not sure how I would do with the keyboard, but I do like the small form factor. Apologies again if you are a real person. In the meantime I am going to need you to click on every picture that contains a gopher. :)
No worry, I understand. As I said, I will report back, and I am even thinking of uploading videos about this, specially if it turns out as good as it seems. I hate that neither MKBHD, LTT, JerryRig... No one showed this bad boy while they all cried that small phones are dying... Well, now I am starting to believe they might be part of the problem...
Nah, OEMs had to make them larger to provide sufficient cooling surface area for the battery and cpu.
That was the first driver, and then marketing took over to make larger phones seem like a better choice.
Now that Android is much more power efficient (and the hardware is too), we could have smaller phones with only a modest reduction in performance.
Stuff like ceramic or glass backs were also as much about cooling, but marketed as a cool feature.
Ceramic and glass transfer heat far better than plastic. So when you're running your flagship phablet at max to play a game, it can shed that heat much more readily, and also charge the battery at 15watts.
Lol it's really easy, people like big screens - nothing else.