It's anecdotal, but I've never seen someone care about the weight of a phone as a decisive factor.
Hi, I care significantly about the weight.
I find all the new X series iPhones to be too heavy.
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hhunccfing commented on The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone david-smith.org/blog/2019... · Posted by u/graeme
> Apparently the smaller-handed have given up on single-handed use several phone generations ago, so they have nothing to lose from even bigger phones.
Yes, we do - RSI issues on the medical front and at some point you also simply exceed pocket size. For some of my jeans, a current generation Google Pixel barely fits into the pockets without sticking out at the top.
For me the ideal phone would be an iPhone SE running Android. There must be a market for this sort of thing and it doesn't make any sense to me that no company is even trying to play in it.
There are a lot of no name small phones on Aliexpress. The problem, is the unverified quality.
hhunccfing commented on The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone david-smith.org/blog/2019... · Posted by u/graeme
>iOS 13 drops support for the iPhone 5S, 6 and 6+. These iPhones currently account for 17% of my userbase.
A shame to see. I like my SE and will own one for as long as Apple allows, but designers are already forgetting to account for the 320 screen width. I see it with increasing regularity, in apps and on the web. I'd imagine that this will only accelerate once the SE is the only 4" screen left.
I don't get it! My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans, and I don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.
I also have big hands. But I’m getting older and my eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be. So I need to increase the font size.
On a larger screen, it works well. On a small screen, it’s way too cramped.
Small phones were popular when all they could do was make calls and even texting was sort of cumbersome and rare. Of course you'd want that sort of single use device to be as small as possible.
I fail to see how YouTube, Fornite, and Instagram users (to name a few) will want a smaller screen.
I also think the market has settled on rather standard phone body sizes that have not changed significantly since 2014 or so.