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So long, small phones
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A small phone with flagship features are not happening.
To get a smaller phone, you have to give up screen quality, camera quality, fingerprint scanners and other flagship features.
I just want a small flip phone that acts as a smartwatch paired to my main phone. Nobody makes that either.
One less camera is fine, the other things make no sense. Good screens don't take more space, and fingerprint readers are tiny.
It doubly makes no sense when you consider that we did have small flagship phones until recently.
I'm sorry but this sounds even more fucking stupid than smartwatches*
Yeah, it's a specific use case thing that wouldn't make sense for most people.
I could see it being good for construction or something, keep your main phone in a bag or whatever while you have a paired flip phone on ya. If it gets destroyed due to whatever reason itd be easier to replace.
Yes, that is the kind of use case I'm talking about. Rather than beefing up a thousand dollar phone with a case and a holster, I'd rather keep the good phone somewhere safe while I take a far cheaper handset in my pocket.
Right now, the way I could have that is to have 2 lines with different phone numbers and different phone plans, so the monthly cost doesn't work out.
I used to have a Motorola Droid Mini, which was just a Droid Maxx with a smaller screen and battery.
Loved the build quality of that phone.
The mini had a terrible TFT LCD screen.
Actually, the Xperia 5 series from Sony is "small" in comparison, so is the Pixel 8 and they all have the same hardware specs - except the zoom lense. Which is a damn shame, because my Pixel 6 Pro is just a tad too big. I wouldn't wanna go back to my Xperia Z1 Compact, tbh. 4,3" is not big enough anymore...
The zenfone would like to have a word with you.
Oh? Does it do some of the things I've come to believe are impossible?
I mean take a look at it's spec sheet, i love mine it's a really solid phone. Only thing i wish it had was a micro sd slot and ir blaster.
This exactly.
I've been dying for a refreshed Galaxy Folder but with Samsung Dex.
Give me a basic flip phone, my essential Android apps, and key me use the powerful processor docked in desktop mode like a laptop.